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A US Army Signal Corps transportable microwave relay station from 1945 using AN/TRC-1, 5, 6, and 8 systems. Each pair of identical antennas is used for a link with another station up to 40 miles away, which can carry multiple telephone calls. Two antennas are required for bidirectional communication; one for transmitting and one for receiving. Microwave technology advanced during World War 2 due to the development of radar, and toward the end of the war the US Army began using microwave communication systems in the European theater. These military systems were some of the first practical microwave relay systems and presaged development of the great transcontinental commercial microwave relay networks in the 1950s. The systems shown here were:
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| Source | Retrieved November 2, 2015 from "Directional Radio Relays" in Popular Science magazine, The Popular Science Publishing Co., New York, Vol. 148, No. 1, January 1946, p. 188 on Google Books |
| Author | Credited to US Army Signal Corps |
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