[ARC5] Trivial question. Meaning of "SCR"

Mike Hanz aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org
Sat Mar 30 17:55:58 EDT 2013


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On 3/30/2013 5:49 PM, gordon white wrote:
> If you look back to the beginning of military radio, SCR = set, 
> complete, radio. There was a lot of military jargonof the same ilk. AN 
> ("Army-Navy) of course came in during WW II and was more explanatory.
>
> "Signal Corps Radio" doesn't cut it since there were non-Signal Corps 
> radios, believe it or not. And even if you wanted to go that way, SCR 
> would make no sense, since they were defining a complete set or radio 
> system, made up of Basic Components.
>
>  - Gordon White



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