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SCR radio sets. The U.S. Signal Corps used the term "sets" to denote specific groupings of individual components such as transmitters, receivers, power supplies, handsets, cases, and antennas. SCR radio sets ranged from the relatively small SCR-536 "handie talkie" to high-powered, truck-mounted mobile communications systems like the SCR-299 and ...
SCR-508. The SCR-508 radio was a mobile Signal Corps Radio used by the U.S. Army during World War II, for short range ground communications. The SCR-508 series radio represented the Army's commitment to both FM and crystal tuning, and was used extensively by armor and mechanized units. The turret bustle of late series light and medium tanks was ...
The SCR-536 weighed 5 pounds (2.3 kg) with batteries and 3.85 lb (1.75 kg) without batteries. The unit operated in AM voice mode between 3.5 and 6.0 MHz frequency range on any one of 50 channels. Plug in crystals and coils were used to control the frequency of the receiver and transmitter. The antenna was a 40 inch telescoping rod that slid ...
The Alaska Communication System remained under the control of the Army Signal Corps until 1962 when it was taken over by the U.S. Air Force. The ACS handled the radioteletype, radio telephone, 500 kHz ship-to-shore frequencies, collected communications intelligence, and other services for more than half a century in Alaska.
The United States Army Signal Corps ( USASC) is a branch of the United States Army that creates and manages communications and information systems for the command and control of combined arms forces. It was established in 1860, the brainchild of Major Albert J. Myer, and had an important role in the American Civil War.
TM 9-2800 Standard Military Motor Vehicles. dated 1 sept. 1943. TM 9-2800 Military vehicles dated October 1947. TM 11-227 Signal Communication Directory. dated 10 April 1944. TM 11-364 K-44-B Truck and earth borer equipment HD. TM 11-487 Electrical Communication systems Equipment. dated 2 October 1944.
Although a relatively large backpack-carried radio rather than a handheld model, the SCR-300 was described in War Department Technical Manual TM-11-242 as "primarily intended as a walkie-talkie for foot combat troops", and so the term "walkie-talkie" first came into use. [3] The final acceptance tests took place at Fort Knox, Kentucky in Spring ...
SCR-68. The SCR-68 ( SCR was a military term meaning Set, Complete, Radio [1]) was a military radiotelephone used by the US Army Signal Corps as an aircraft radio in the waning months of World War I. [2] Due to its many problems, primarily its inability to communicate with other radios, like its ground component the SCR-67 or the larger truck ...