[ARC5] Trivial question. Meaning of "SCR"

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Also, with AFAIK the sole exception of the SCR-211-(*) (which should have 
gotten an RC nomenclature), everything with an SCR nomenclature has a 
description beginning Radio Set. 

In a message dated 03/30/2013 16:51:02 PM Central Daylight Time, 
gewhite at crosslink.net writes: 
>      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.

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