[MRCA] D-Day communications

[Christopher Bowne]

Thanks for the link!  Interesting article.  One technical comment - the article mentions the limited HF spectrum that was used , up to a maximum of 8 MHz.  Then says that adjacent channel guard bands for FM sets were limited to 4 kHz to pack as many channels into that spectrum.  AFAIK no tactical HF radios that operated in the lower HF portion of the spectrum used FM, just CW AM and MCW. Were the early tactical FM sets that operated at 20 MHz and above used at D-Day? Perhaps they had 4 kHz guard bands between channels.

This thread would be an appropriate time to remember Vic Politi. W1NU (SK) of Fairfield CT, who was a radio operator was attached to General Teddy Roosevelt Jr’s. staff and landed on Utah Beach on D-Day.  He was attached to the General’s staff from the start of the North African campaigns in 1942, Sicily, and Italy before D-Day.  Vic was a very active collector and operator of vintage military radios, especially on the WS-19 and OMRN CW Nets, generally using an SCR-284/BC-654. WS-19, or a reproduction Para Set.  A picture of him and others from his unit operating an SCR-284 in the field during the North African campaign made it into Life Magazine in late 1942.

73 de Chris AJ1G
Stonington CT

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> On May 22, 2024, at 09:03, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:
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> The latest issue of Radio World Magazine has an article on Army D-Day communications. It starts on page 6:
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