[Milsurplus] [MRCA] SCR-288 - MI-8751 - BC-474

[Hubert Miller]

The Ranger units I read about ( title still to look up here ) didn't use vehicles, so that is not a concern.
I have also a photo of a Marine in the So Pacific using a BC-1306, not the usual  TBX you'd expect.
Tim N6CC interviewed a CBI vet whose sketchy memory did seem to point to the SCR-694, which would tally
with Rauland's magazine ads touting this employment.
Regarding generator noise, I read the same thing about the TBX.
The book on the Rangers gave 35 miles range for over-water trip on the BC-1000. This was good for coordinating
evacuation by sea after a mission into enemy country.
-Hue


>Total number of SCR-284's delivered was 63,972.  Of the total, 21,769 were delivered in 1944.  Of the SCR-694-C, 23,732 and 14,416.

On the use of SCR-284 in the Pacific, I don't recall where I read it but the Marines were reported to dislike the 284 because at night, its generator was noisy enough to draw Jap fire.  The paragraph went on to say that the SCR-694-C was much better in this regard.

I won't argue that the BC-1000 doesn't have a greater effective range than the BC-611 despite having about the same power output, because the BC-611 has about the least efficient antenna of any set in actual use at the time.  But the frequency coverage, power output and antenna efficiency of the BC-654 and BC-1306 are all either about the same or exactly the same.  I can see the Rangers grabbing the SCR-694-C as soon as it became available, mainly because it's much lighter in the pack set variant.  But in a Jeep or a Dodge, one is about as good as the other.  About the only thing that the BC-1306 has going for it is that its waterproofing is better.  Plus the little fact that the PE-237 didn't finally catch up to the rest of the set until early 1945 due to a shipping screw-up.  So to use the BC-1306 in a vehicle, you had to adapt a PE-103.

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