[Milsurplus] The Gas receiver

[WA5CAB@cs.com]

Group,

I'll provide what little I have in the way of hard references in a day or so 
when I have time to find them (processing 70+ eBay auctions right now and hope 
to eat dinner before Midnight) but I'm 87% sure that the term "Gas Receiver" 
is a carryover from the Great War, and may well be why the SCR-593 was 
originally procurred.  But when BC warfare didn't materialize to any significant 
degree in WW-II, the SCR-593 became an Air Warning receiver, with one at each AAA 
battery.  The SCR-694-AW and SCR-714-AW were apparently developed as a 
replacement but for reasons not known to me were further developed into the SCR-694-C 
Pack Set (with no receiver-only variant) and very few were built.  The 
AN/GRR-5 was a replacement for the SCR-593 for use in Air Warning circuits.  Note 
that unlike most of the HF COMM receivers, it has preset detents.  However, I 
don't recall ever reading any accounts about the Korean War that actually 
mentioned it in that service.  I suspect (as others in this thread have said or 
suggested) that in actual service, it was more commonly used as an AUX Receiver 
with the SCR-506, AN/GRC-9, and the Post Korean War AN/GRC-19.  No reason to use 
it with AN/GRC-14 (AN/MRC-55) as those sets already had two receivers.

73
Robert Downs - Houston
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