[Milsurplus] ANTRACK

[Mike Morrow]

Clete wrote of the term ANTRACK:

> It's not a landing vehicle.

It would be hard to confuse an amphibious tractor with
the early AN/TRC-xx gear, although both are large and
heavy and (usually) drab green.  :-)

To tie things together (vehicle and radio), the Vietnam-era
USMC amtracks (LVTP-5A1) carried AN/VRC-46 (AN/VRC-12 series)
tactical VHF-FM sets.  I made a drop off an LST while in a
LVTP-5A1 into the Atlantic (for training) forty years ago
while bent over and hanging on inside trying to keep my pack,
rifle, and AN/PRC-25 from scattering away from me after the
drop.

There was no AN/TRC in the amtrack.  :-)

73,
Mike / KK5F





>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
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>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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