The SCR-658 radar is a
radio direction finding
Direction finding (DF), or radio direction finding (RDF), isin accordance with International Telecommunication Union (ITU)defined as radio location that uses the reception of radio waves to determine the direction in which a radio station ...
set introduced by the
U. S. Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...
in 1944, 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
Ben Hur trailer was the nickname of the World War II U.S. Army Trailer, 1-ton payload, 2-wheel, cargo, and the Trailer, 1-ton payload, 2-wheel, water tank, 250 gallon ( U.S. Army Ordnance Corps Supply catalogue designations G-518 and G-527 respec ...
.
Surviving examples
There is one known survivor at the Air Force museum in
Dayton Ohio.
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See also
*
Signal Corps Radio
*
Radiosonde
Notes
References
* TM 11-1158
* TM 11-2409 mobile Meteorological station
* Air Defense Artillery Journal March–April 194
External links
* http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea01200.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100413132056/http://www.gordon.army.mil/ocos/museum/equipment.asp SCR and BC lists
* https://web.archive.org/web/20081121225613/http://6thweathermobile.org/1949_(part%201).htm excellent pics.
* http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ssd/tstm/html/tstorm.htm
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Meteorological instrumentation and equipment
Weather radars
Military radars of the United States
World War II radars
World War II American electronics
Military equipment introduced from 1940 to 1944
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