[ARC5] Talking to Airplanes From the Ground

[Al Klase]

Gang,

I'm with Hue on the SCR-694.   In addition to being waterproof it was a 
lot lighter than the SCR-284 (a horse designed by a committee.)  The 
design lived on for some time after the war as the AN/GRC-9.  The latter 
set was humped around by the original cold-war long-range recon units.  
Both radios load an end fed have-wave wire really well, so you can leave 
a bunch of antenna parts behind.

Here's the poster from the WWII Tactical Communications display in our 
museum:



Cone see us when you get a chance: http://www.rtm.ar88.net/ 
<http://www.rtm.ar88.net/>

73,
Al

On 8/1/2021 7:17 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> I think I am partial to the SCR-694 and like. I recalled now that the TRC-2 transceiver was actually
> the first 'surplus' radio I ever had, and that was around 60 years ago. It unfortunately was lost,
> which makes this uncommon radio all the more uncommon. I still have some BC-1306s and
> another TRC-2. At one time I thought of trying to go for the whole TRC-2 setup, but now that's
> looking very impractical and unrealistic.
>
> Chuck Waite about 25 - 30 years ago told me about a "1306 net" he and some others had going
> in PA area a few years before that. That sounded like real fun and only whetted my appreciation
> of these little gems. I also recall seeing at a Goodwill store a book on Christian missionaries in, I
> believe, the Amazonian Peru', and it had a photo of a missionary with a full BC-1306 setup with
> handcrank gen. I kick myself now for not buying that book. The price was certainly nothing.
> -Hue Miller
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-- 
Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net

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