[Milsurplus] Question about SCR and AN nomenclature

[William Donzelli]

> The situation vis-a-vis the old SigC system (SCR, RC, etc) is much more 
> obscure. Doing a Google search on "scr signal corps" brings up a 
> gazillion hits, none of which seem to be "official" as to its genesis, 
> history, etc.

I suspect that the early SCR numbers were assigned to individual radios,
not systems. This may be why all of the lists start with SCR-44 or
so. Pre-1914, the Signal Corps may have only had 43 complete radios total.

BCs do indeed start at BC-1. BC-5s show up from time to time on Ebay (it
is a wood chest - not too exciting to most folks).

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org