[MRCA] D-Day communications

[Al Klase]

Dave,

Thanks for the remembrances.   Caused me to dig up Vic's obit. 
<https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18028685/victor-j.-colaguori>  He 
must have been a interesting guy.

VY 73,
AL

On 5/24/2024 4:48 PM, David Olean wrote:
>
> 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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