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SCR-658 radar
Country of origin	USA
Introduced	1944 (1944)
Type	a radio- direction- finding device

The SCR-658 radar is a radio direction finding set introduced by the U. S. Army 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.

Surviving examples

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

See also

• Signal Corps Radio
• Radiosonde

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.

References

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

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

• 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