[MRCA] AN/TRC-1

[Al Klase]

Jeff,

I didn't know much at all about Victor Coliguori, but the name rang a 
bell, and I took a look at a presentation I did at InfoAge in 2011 on 
"Signal Corps Information Technologyduring World War II." Victor, a 
civilian working for the Signal Corps, hit the beach at Omaha late on 
D-day, and by about D+4 had a multiplexed ANTRACK link running back to 
England.  Among other things it was used to move aerial recon. photos 
back to Normandy from the airfield at Middle Wallop (only in the UK :-)) 
via FAX.





Pages from the "Green Books" attached.  Quite an adventure.

BTW, the "Green Books" are on the web: 
https://history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-18/index.html  They and be 
tedious reading, but contain a lot of information.

73,
Al

On 5/26/2018 8:08 AM, comcast wrote:
> the trc1 aka antracs were developed at ft monmouth during we2 as used 
> for shaefs hq lunks to forward army hq units. victor coliguori SK, 
> W2VC was instrumental in getting the system working overseas.  theres 
> a good writeup about in in the 3rd green book about the signal corps
> jeff
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 25, 2018, at 3:51 PM, Al Klase <ark at ar88.net 
> <mailto:ark at ar88.net>> wrote:
>
>> Ray,
>>
>> Well, you have to remember it's four SSB receivers and exciters 
>> implemented with 1940 technology, LC band-pass filters etc.
>>
>> I don't think there anyone on TV channel 6, and there's an induction 
>> heater allocation at 84 MHz.
>>
>> *Let's get started! ;-)*
>>
>> Al
>>
>> On 5/25/2018 3:35 PM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>>>
>>> Wow, the CF-1 is a lot larger than I thought it would be. Hard to 
>>> imagine it takes all that for just four little phone circuts.  Think 
>>> I need to work with newer systems. Got to be smaller solid state 
>>> multiplex gear. Think you can run the TRC-1 duplex signal channel 
>>> but I want the “Carrier experience”.
>>>
>>> Also wonder why you never saw any of the carrier equipment on the 
>>> surplus market? Maybe because it was too big and heavy and had no 
>>> related Ham use?
>>>
>>> Ray F/KA3EKH
>>>
>>> *From:*mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>>> [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf Of *Al Klase
>>> *Sent:* Friday, May 25, 2018 3:24 PM
>>> *To:* mrca at mailman.qth.net
>>> *Subject:* Re: [MRCA] AN/TRC-1
>>>
>>> Ray,
>>>
>>> You mean like this?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Al Klase – N3FRQ
>> Jersey City, NJ
>> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>>
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Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
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