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
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On May 23, 2024, at 11:18 AM, Al Klase <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] 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 ______________________________________________________________ MRCA mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/mrca Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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