This page is dedicated to identifying electronic communication equipment from Argentina and anything else relevant to the Signal Corps. We invite comments and information because we are not as familiar with some of these.
Radio Station Operator and telegraph battery wagon , Wireless set, circa 1940-44. LIFE Magazine.
Radio Wagons
Signal Corps during maneuvers in 1916. Caras y Caretas.
Telegraph section of Railroad Battalion.
Avantren & Retrotren.
Radio-Wagons wireless outfit, W100 transceiver and receiver type A.
Anti-Aircraft Sound Detection Equipment and Searchlights
Sound detector used in air raid defense. This German in origin "Horchgerät", possibly by Siemens. 1941, Agrupacion Antiaerea Campo de Mayo.
Searchlights
Photo: Caras y Caretas.
Above is a searchlight or Flak spotlight flakscheinwerfer 34. Searchlights (invented by J.F.C. Fuller) were first used during WWI to create artificial moonlight to assist in nighttime attacks. During WWII they were used as a defense against nocturnal aerial bombings. They were also used in pairs to calculate the altitude of enemy bombers (and even to blind the bombers).
Electrical accumulator, power plant (?)
Cable wire dispensing wagon.
Radio equipment for Anti-Aircraft use
Transmitter/receiver TRD and 5w.
Two-man pack.
Fire-control systems.
A fire-control system is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director, and radar, which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target. It performs the same task as a human gunner firing a weapon, but attempts to do so faster and more accurately.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Vickers Predictor, gun director. Anti-Aircraft Regiment.
The Kerrison Predictor was one of the first fully automated anti-aircraft fire-control systems. It was an electromechanical analog computer. The predictor could aim a gun at an aircraft based on simple inputs like the observed speed and the angle to the target. Such devices had been used on ships for gunnery control for some time, and versions such as the Vickers Predictor were available for larger anti-aircraft guns intended to be used against high-altitude bombers, but the electromechanical Kerrison was the first to be fast enough to be used in the demanding high-speed low-altitude role, which involved very short engagement times and high angular rates.
Wikipedia.
Wikipedia.
Engineer Corps
Communication "Kabeltrommel" cable wire layer dispensing of the 4th Engineers Batallion from the San Roque Sierras in Cordoba.
1945. Cordoba. 4th Engineers Batallion with reflectors mounted on old German obsertory wagon from the Franco-Prussian War Era, SXIX.
War Dog with cable wire reel layer dispensing. Photo Caras y Caretas 1935.
Acoustic listening device type Goerz. RH35 M28. Modelo Argentino.
1944. Patricios Regiment. Signal Corps.
Signal Troops from The Patricios Regiment. Note the soldier on the right, hi have a HAFDASA signal pistol holster-bandolier.
According to Malvinas War Veterans (VGM) from the Patricios Regiment, during the War, the Patricios Regiment had used the old HAFDASA Signal Pistol M36.
Source M. Font, VGM and "The Falklands War Then and Now" by Gordon Ramsey
Source M. Font, VGM and "The Falklands War Then and Now" by Gordon Ramsey
Caras y Caretas 1936.
Source; Caras y Caretas.
6Th Infantry Regiment 1944. Gral Viamonte.
Kabeltrommel: Reel Backpack cable layer. Photo Reenactment Arma de Comunicaciones Ejercito Argentino 1945-50s.
Radio Backpacks
Pack TRD.
Photo reenactment:
Madsen Ammo Leather Case or DGFM Type T.T.A, Mod 5 field telephone, (Argentine version of the U.S EE-8 ), in leather case. made by F.M.M.C BsAs. (?)
Cavalry Equipment
RCA-TRD Mod 1, is a combined transmitter and receiver. From 11th Cavalry Regiment (1946)
Field/Heavy Artilley Equipment
Headset types
Several different headsets used by radio operators from the artillery. Photo from the Military Yearbook from Sgt. Cabral 1945.
US EE1 Field Telephone.
FLAK type (Possibily used by the Marine Corps), Single Earphone Headset made by Standard Electric of Argentina.
Meteorological instruments for Field Artillery use.
Meteorology School in the Signal Corps. Circa 1944.
Meteorological Weather balloon sondes.
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 Hydrogen filled balloon
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A weather or sounding balloon is a balloon (specifically a type of high altitude balloon) which carries instruments aloft to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed aloft by means of a small, expendable measuring device called a radiosonde. To obtain wind data, they can be tracked by radar, radio direction finding, or navigation systems (such as the satellite based Global Positioning System also known as a GPS).
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Surveyor's level for meteorological work.
Acoustic Signal guns
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Acoustic. Signal gun and mount.
Walther break action, single shot signal pistol by Carl Walther Waffenfabrik.
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/signal-pistols.htm
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/signal-pistols.htm
Latil Tractor ? with Mobile Stations, Transceivers / Wireless Stations Telefunken 200.
Radio direction finder or Radio Goniometro
Interesting photo from 1939, it shows a loop-type, manually directional antenna, which is a kind of folded dipole or halo.
Short Wave Radiogoniometro Type Telefunken P57N . Argentine copy?
Artillery radio trucks developed from a Dodge commercial station wagon model
1940s. LIFE photo archive
LIFE photo archive
LIFE photo archive
Artillery School, May Field 1945/48
 TTE-5.
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  Field Telephone and Wire/Cable.
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 Transceiver OC TRD Mod 1, and batteries accessories box.
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Transmission Line, Antenna.
Photo LIFE Magazine.
Caras y Caretas 1933.
Air Force Equipment
NCOs from the Air Force train with the radio. Practing with FuG V transmitter/receiver radio electronic equpment from the old Ju 52 Junkers. Photo is from "La Aeronautica Nacional al servicio del pais, 1948".
Soldados 1848-1927/Editorial Fundacion Soldados
Telefunken 75v.
Communication Equipment Made in Argentina or Used by Argentina.
D.G.F.M TTE-5 Central/10 lines.
WS-19 MkIII
WS-19 MKII and Aerial base No 8 f/ British M4 Sherman Tank
WALKIE TALKIE RT-196/PRC-6
PRC - 3000
This radio was brought from England. They came in a P37 bag. It may have been captured from battle and taken back as a souvenir. They were made in the mid-1970s to be used for fewer troops. Their reach is 3km.
TELEFONO DE CAMPAÑA TC 101. TC-101 Field Telephone.
AN-PRC-10
VRC3620/3622
PRC-3620. Old Army Manual.
Philips RT-4600
BX-4600 Battery Box.
AN/PRC-25/77 Backpacks Radios.
RT-2841 - PRC-77T
RT-841/PRC-77