[Milsurplus] ANTRACK

[C.Whitaker]

It's not a landing vehicle.
It's the AN/TRC-1, or 3.   "Track One", Or "Ann Track"
The basic unit was one each Tx and Rx, Antenna, and
a small engine for power.  Not a PE-75 or 95 I think.
Two of them for Full Duplex was a TRC-3, but nobody
ever called it that.  They could be put into a 6X6, but it
would get crowded.  A Relay Station would need two
times what Hue says, but a Terminal, or Drop Out, would
need the CF-1, and maybe CF-2), telephone carrier
(Multiplexing Equipment).  The power unit, and all their
gear, was in the trailer.  The only other thing Sig Corps
had that went very far was the SCR-299, SCR-399, and
SCR-499, but that was single channel.  The TRC-1's
never made it into history because that's not where all
our BC-610's came from.
73  Clete  a.k.a  WB2CPN
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On 3/30/2012 12:38 AM, Hue Miller wrote:
> I was last weekend putting away some books and had a brief look at an
> article in a war years or just slightly
> after, "Electronic Industries" magazine. There was an article on the Battle
> of the Bulge talking about the
> Antrack maintaining US Army communications out of the surrounded village of
> Bastogne, Belgium. Article
> identified it as AN/TRC-3, IIRC.  Internet sez this comprises 2 TRC-1 rec, 2
> trans, 3 antenna kits, 3 PE-75.
> Article seems to say only one truck; its trailer was hit and destroyed, but
> truck station continued throughout
> the encirclement.
> Or is this already common knowledge  here, from the Green Books or other
> Scripture?
> My father was in some kind of mobile repair unit supporting the infantry,
> under Patton's command,
> at that time.
> One of the best known radio collectors of the antique radio club in Seattle
> was Art Corbus. I learned he
> had been in a tank recovery unit during this part of the war. I only heard
> him mention a couple sentences
> about the times; wished I had tried to draw him out a little more on it.
> -Hue Miller
>
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