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überarbeitet am 30.12.2012
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There is only very scarce information about telecommunications equipment
used by the Swiss Air Force. As far as I know, there is no book
or brochure on this single topic available.
Most of my information could be found at the Swiss Air Force Museum (Air Force Center)
at Dubendorf, there you find an excellent exhibition of aircraft used by the
Swiss Air Force including the on-board and ground communications equipment.
There is also an excellent text about the history of the Swiss Air Force
written from the point of view of a responsible for the ground organisation
and air fields of the Swiss Air Force: "Die materielle Entwicklung aus der Sicht
der Unterhaltsorganisation" written by Hans Giger can be found for download
at the website www.glique.ch.
In the early years, aircraft board wireless stations got a designation FG xx
with Roman numbers used, in which FG stands for FunkGerät.
In contrast, the sets of the German Luftwaffe had designations FuG for FunkGerät.
After 1951 with the new naming scheme in use, aircraft wireless stations got
designations SE-0xx, some ground stations based on an aircraft equipment got SE-0xx/f or SE-0xx/t designation.
In some cases of aircraft equipment faded out before the new designation scheme
was first used in 1951, I have added a "non-official" SE-0xx designation in brackets
to illustrate the time sequence of the equipment.
Aircraft wireless stations, new designation scheme used after 1951
(SE-001) / FG I
(1930)
longwave
in airplanes DH-5 and "Potez" L-25 |
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(SE-002) / FG II
(1935/6), Telefunken Stat 1007 a/b F (FuG VIIa)
shortwave, 7 W, CW
in airplanes Me109D, Fokker CV and Devoitine D-27 |
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(SE-004) / FG IV
(1937/8), Telefunken
in airplanes C-35 and Fokker CV |
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SE-009 / FG IX
(1939)
in airplanes Messerschmitt Bf 109E & Morane D-3800 |
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SE-010 / FG X
(1941/2)
shortwave 6 - 12 MHz
with Telaccord remote control
in airplanes Morane D 3801 (MS 506 C-1) and C 3603 |
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S-011 / FG XI
(1942),
longwave transmitter for locating a plane from the ground, 315 - 375 kHz, A1
in airplanes C 3603 |
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SE-011
(1983),
VHF, 108 - 160 MHz, AM
in airplanes Hunter, replacement for the SE-015 |
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SE-012 / FG XII
(1946), Standard Radio
VHF, AM, 4 channels
in airplanes Vampire DH-100 |
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SE-013 / FG 13
(1948), SCR-522
VHF 100-156 MHz, AM
in airplanes P-51 "Mustang" & used in aircraft ground stations |
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SE-014 / FG 14
(19xx?), Arc.3
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SE-015 / FG 15
(1948), Standard Radio
VHF 115-145 MHz, AM, 10 Kanäle
in airplanes Vampire DH-100, Venom DH-112,
in laters years in Hunter, C-3605, Pilatus P2, P3 and PC-6, etc. |
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SE-016
(1965?), Omera TR-AP 28
VHF, 100 - 156 MHz
in aircrafts Mirage III RS/S |
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SE-017 / FG 17
(19xx?), Arc.5 resp. J-Station
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SE-018/m / FG 18 /LR
(acquired in 1944/7 b), SCR-287 or H-Station
200 - 500 kHz, 1,5-12 MHz, A1, A2,A3, pout 75 W
receiver: BC-348 / transmitter BC-375 |
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SE-020
(1954), Socrat, Paris
VHF, 100 - 156 MHz,
in helicopters Alouette II |
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SE-023
(196x?), Collins, Cedar Rapids
VHF, 100 - 156 MHz,
in Beechcraft "Twin Bonanza" |
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SE-027
(1964), Socrat, Paris
VHF, 100 - 156 MHz,
in helicopters Alouette III |
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SE-051
(1965?), Omera ER.76.A
UHF, 220 - 400 MHz
in aircraft Mirage III RS/S |
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SE-054
(1965?), Magnavox
UHF, 220 - 400 MHz
in aircraft Mirage III RS/S |
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SE-056
(1983),
UHF, 225 - 400 MHz,
in aircraft Hunter |
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Ground stations used by the Swiss Air Force
>>>Here<<< you can find
informations on the equipment used in ground stations of the Swiss Air Force.
Before you start reading, please accept my excuses that some information
might not be that correct, as I do not carry a heavy burden of too much knowledge
about aircraft and air traffic.
I got much extremely valuable information from the excellent exhibition at the
Swiss Air Force Museum at the former Dubendorf military airport and I recommend
visiting that museum to all military aircraft enthousiasts.
The goal of this part of my website is to give a systematic survey over on-bboard
and ground station wireless communications equipment used by the Swiss Air Force.
Over the years I came across some parts of aircraft equipment at hamfests and
did not recognize them as such, as I had never seen any images of such kind of equipment.
Up to now, information on the internet is scarce - maybe because of much information
has been considered to be kept secret in the last decades.
I would be very happy to get further information and historic photos of equipment
to add them to this website. All images taken at Dubendorf Swiss Air Force museum are b/w,
I cannot answer questions about most of this equipment in detail.
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