[Milsurplus] Trucks with SCR-268, 584

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Hue,

Does he have any recollection as to (a) whether the radio(s) were in a 
vehicle or set up on the ground somewhere and (b) what power source ran the radios 
(vehicle electrical system, storage batteries, or gasoline powered generator)?  
SCR-193 is a vehicular set.  Depending upon which letter model, it was in one 
or two steel chests, and the antenna was mounted to the vehicle, not the 
chest(s).  AN/VRC-1 is also vehicular set in a steel chest but antennas for the 
SCR-193 and SCR-542 were at least mounted to the chest.  Or one of them was, 
anyway.

Show him a photo of a BC-669.  I'd still lean toward it early in the war.

In a message dated 12/31/2006 4:54:26 PM Central Standard Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> I sent my father some links showing BC-654 and SCR-193, and he sez what he
> remembers seems to resemble the wood-chest SCR-193 ( BC-191 + BC-312 ).
> That to me seems way overmuch for a working distance of 2 to 5 miles, but 
> what
> do i know? He also sez he remembers the nomenclature  "VRC-something",  but 
> i 
> wonder if that was something he heard post-war?  I suppose maybe if you had 
> a 
> unit of 125 men and a dozen or so trucks, and technical expensive equipment 
> like
> AA guns and a radar, maybe a radio set like the SCR-193 wouldn't be 
> unreasonable.
> -Hue Miller

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