Two Decades of U. S. Army Mobile High-Frequency Communications

This paper is an historical account of the trend in development of U. S. Army high-frequency mobile radio communications of medium power in the period 1940 to 1960. Starting with one of the first really mobile sets of this power level, in a wide variety of installation configurations to meet World War II requirements, it relates the progressive fulfillment of higher traffic handling capabilities in both single and multivehicle installations. The increasing demand for smaller but higher capacity equipments indicates the course which future development efforts should follow.