[ARC5] Talking to Airplanes From the Ground

[Hubert Miller]

>In air drop operations, using voice communication certainly makes perfect sense. Setting up overhead aircraft for an overhead supply drop requires quick communication, >and CW just won’t cut it. And the SCR-284 requires a three man team to carry everything, so, yeah, it is a pain in the rear to set up and move, and while it is water resistant, it > not waterproof ( the radio that was supposed to replace it, the SCR-294/BC-1306 was waterproof, and was just as much a pain in the butt to move, and still required a hand >cranked generator to be operated when transmitting). The limiting factor with the radios was technology. When originally adopted into service, the SCR-284 and SCR-294 >were state of the art.
>Mark D.
>WW2RDO

The 694 set is much easier on the back to lug around.
This is the set that was packed in for the raid on that Japanese POW camp in the Philippines.
It was the radio the Army supplied with its people when the Army began to take over the Philippine coast watcher – observer role.
It was the radio the Marines in the Pacific used, together with the TBX.
I was ( I conclude ) the radio dropped with the people who parachuted in to Japan's China POW camps to secure the well being of
Allied prisoners.
-Hue

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