[MRCA] D-Day communications

[David Olean]

I was in the signal Corps in the late 60's in Europe.  My battalion 
commander scrounged up an old TRC-1 set. I have no idea where it came 
from. He never said!  I was at one time the Property Book Officer fr the 
battalion, and never saw one listed anywhere. We had a big field 
Exercise around the Frankfurt area in the Taunus Mountains, and he 
employed the TRC-1 to set a TTY and voice link back to our base at 8th 
Div HQ in Bad Kreuznach. It was a bit over 40 miles and the TRC-1 worked 
great!! It was solid for a few weeks with never any problem. At the 
time, we had TRC-24 12 channel carrier radios.  I doubt that they would 
have worked as well. They were old and tired!  Later on I ran into VIC 
Coligouri, W2VC and we got talking. That is when he told me that he had 
worked on many of the RF portions of the TRC-24.  That radio covered 50 
thru at least 1950 MHz with various plug-ins. Our unit only had 50-100 
and 225-400 MHz  (A & C bands)  I used to work Vic on VHF up to 10 GHz.  
He would set up at Sandy Hook just South of New York harbor. We managed 
to make a 10 GHz contact between there and Maine. That was a fun time 
and Vic was the best!!

73

Dave K1WHS


On 5/23/2024 12:24 PM, comcast wrote:

> folks. I read the green book and the trc relays were developed at Ft 
> Monmouth. Victor Coligouri from Monmouth County was one of the guys 
> who made it work .  the TRC equipment kept comms going between higher 
> HQ units - army ,corps and divisions his call before he became an SK 
> was W2VC. Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 23, 2024, at 11:18 AM, Al Klase <ark at ar88.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Gang,
>>
>> The drawing to the AN/TRC radio links in the article reminded me of 
>> some information I dung up years ago for a presentation at InfoAge.  
>> They used radio relay to send aerial recon photos from an airbase in 
>> England to Omaha Beach via facsimile as early as D+2.
>>
>
>>
>>
>> Article from the Army Green Books (The Outcome) attached.  I have a 
>> soft pot in my heart for this, having been trained on radio relay 
>> equipment at Ft. Monmouth during the Vietnam era.
>>
>> Enjoy reading,
>> AL
>>
>> On 5/22/2024 9:02 AM, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:
>>> The latest issue of Radio World Magazine has an article on Army D-Day communications. It starts on page 6:
>>>
>>> <https://issuu.com/futurepublishing/docs/rwm1268.digital_ns_1573ed67be71ea>
>>>
>>> Mike N2MS
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>> ARK Sig Block Al Klase - N3FRQ
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