[Milsurplus] Intro Date of SCR-293/294

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I offer this as a correction to some statements made here recently.

I was trying to pin down the intro date of the BC-659 (which I still haven't 
done) when I came across the following excerpted from US Army in WW-II, The 
Technical Services, The Signal Corps, The Emergency, PP 183/184:

", that the SCR-293 and 294 not only got first to North Africa but were also 
the first frequency-modulated radios anywhere in combat use.  A National Guard 
separate tank battalion hastily equipped with them in the state of Washington 
reached the Philippines only to be captured a month or two later."

Unlike the well know IFF MK-IV, which mostly only turns up NOS because it 
didn't get used, I propose that the reason only NOS SCR-293 components turn up 
(and damned few of them) is that almost all of the production went into service 
and was subsequently abandoned in Theater when the SCR-508, 509 and 510 began 
to arrive.

Robert Downs - Houston
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