SCR-658 radar

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SCR-658 radar
Country of originUSA
Introduced1944 (1944)
Typea radio- direction- finding device

The SCR-658 radar is a radio direction finding set [1] introduced by the U. S. Army in 1944, [2] was developed in conjunction with the SCR-268 radar. It was preceded by the SCR-258. Its primary purpose was to track weather balloons. Prior to this it was only possible to track weather balloons with a theodolite, causing difficulty with visual tracking in poor weather conditions. The set is small enough to be portable and carried in a Ben Hur trailer.

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Surviving examples

There is one known survivor at the Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio. [3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ The Roswell report : fact versus fiction in the New Mexico desert. DIANE Publishing. 1995. pp. 5–. ISBN   978-1-4289-9492-8.
  2. ↑ Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. American Meteorological Society. 1958. pp. 402–.
  3. ↑ "National Museum of the USAF - Photos". www.nationalmuseum.af.mil. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012.

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