SCR-658 radar

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.

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

Surviving examples

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

gollark: <@747764575587270718> for owner since it does not actually do anything.
gollark: I'm glad my alts obfuscate themselves effectively by questioning each other's altitude like this.
gollark: You could use "n", if you were wrong.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: It's just palaiaologos being wrong, as is typical.

See also

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. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=4881

References
  • TM 11-1158
  • TM 11-2409 mobile Meteorological station
  • Air Defense Artillery Journal March-April 1949


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