Special Interest Archives
These special interest articles are collections from various years. Select a topic below to browse each section.
Music (Signal Corps)
Legend of the Song of the Signal Corps, The (Part I)
LTC (Ret.) Gustave Vitt (Fall 1980; Vol. 5 No. 4); PDF (7.75 MB)
Legend of the Song of the Signal Corps, The (Part II)
LTC (Ret.) Gustave Vitt (Winter 1981; Vol. 6 No. 1); PDF (9.56 MB)
Audio (MP3 file) of Army Chorus singing "Song of the Signal Corps" by Bess Heath Olmstead, with fourth verse added in 2002 by retired BG Alan Salisbury, to "bridge the gap in time [from the World War I era, when the song was originally written] and make the song not only historical but relevant for today as well." Olmstead's song was retired as the Signal Corps' "official" song in 1961, when Allan Wooley's march was adopted during the Corps' centennial anniversary.
Also, sheet music of "Song of the Signal Corps" from Army Song Book with lyrics of fourth verse included.
Official song: Signal Corps march
Summer 1979 (Vol. 4 No. 3); PDF (1.85 MB)
Audio (MP3 file) of 434th Army Band (Signal Corps Band) playing the "Signal Corps March" by Allan Wooley.
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Band arrangement by SSG Stanley Helton, words and music by Lorraine Page (Spring 1977 (Vol. 2 No. 2); PDF (1.01 MB)
Tuner's Topics
Basic communications topics with teaching illustrations, starting with the inaugural edition and ending with Vol. 5 No. 3.
AC motor, The
Winter 1978 (Vol. 3 No. 1); PDF (603 KB)
Antenna expediency
Spring 1980 (Vol. 5 No. 2); PDF (1.79 MB)
DC motor, The
Spring 1978 (Vol. 3 No. 2); PDF (648 KB)
Directional antennas
Fall 1978 (Vol. 3 No. 4); PDF (575 KB)
Drip loops
Summer 1980 (Vol. 5 No. 3); PDF (1.91 MB)
Electrical safety
Summer 1979 plus correction from "Pulse," Fall 1979 (Vol. 4 No. 3 and Vol. 4 No. 4); PDF (1.38 MB)
Expedient splicing
Fall 1979 (Vol. 4 No. 4); PDF (717 KB)
Frequency division multiplexing
Fall 1977 (Vol. 2 No. 4); PDF (670 KB)
Introduction to Tuner
Winter 1976 (Vol. 1 No. 1); PDF (650 KB)
Metric system, The
Summer 1978 (Vol. 3 No. 3); PDF (474 KB)
Phonetic alphabet
Winter 1980 (Vol. 5 No. 1); PDF (1.73 MB)
Radio-wire integration
Spring 1977 (Vol. 2 No. 2); PDF (516 KB)
Single-sideband radio
Winter 1977 (Vol. 2 No. 1); PDF (552 KB)
Solar energy
Spring 1979 (Vol. 4 No. 2); PDF (566 KB)
Telephone, The
Summer 1976 (Vol. 1 No. 3); PDF (617 KB)
Television
Fall 1976 (Vol. 1 No. 4); PDF (1.69 MB)
Time division multiplexing
Fall 1977 (Vol. 2 No. 4); PDF (597 MB)
Time zones
Winter 1979 (Vol. 4 No. 1); PDF (745 KB)
Tropospheric scatter system, The
Spring 1976 (Vol. 1 No. 2); PDF (590 KB)
Record Traffic from the Past
These were (usually) short historical pieces published each edition,
starting with the inaugural issue and ending with Vol. 6 No. 4.
Balloon pioneer rises to fame
MSG Herbert Denmark (Summer 1976; Vol. 1 No. 3); PDF (558 KB)
Day of fate at Opana Point
Samuel Barnes (Fall 1980; Vol. 5 No. 4); PDF (13.7 MB)
Flying telegraph, The
CPT George Matoy (Fall 1981; Vol. 6 No. 4); PDF (19.1 MB)
Ghost post
CPT Harry Cramer (Summer 1981; Vol. 6 No. 3); PDF (7.18 MB)
Greely, Signal pioneer
No author listed (Winter 1977; Vol. 2 No. 1); PDF (1.05 MB)
Signal Corps history test
No author listed (Spring 1976; Vol. 1 No. 2); PDF (756 KB)
Signal Corps was for the birds, The
MAJ Ron Frain (Winter 1976; Vol. 1 No. 1); PDF (1.28 MB)
Signaling souls on the Western Front
Samuel Barnes (Winter 1980; Vol. 5 No. 1); PDF (22.7 MB)
Wigged when we should have wagged
No author listed (Fall 1976; Vol. 1 No. 4); PDF (718 KB)
George A. Ellsworth
MAJ Donald Parrish Jr. (Spring 1977; Vol. 2 No. 2); PDF (3.16 MB)
8-9 March 1862
Steve Anderson (Spring 1978; Vol. 3 No. 2); PDF (3.06 MB)
Myer's Balloon Idea
Steve Anderson (Summer 1978; Vol. 3 No. 3); PDF (1.04 MB)
The beachhead at Manila
Steve Anderson (Fall 1978; Vol. 3 No. 4); PDF (2.51 MB)
7 December 1941
Steve Anderson (Winter 1979; Vol. 4 No. 1); PDF (2.83 MB)
Mistaken Flag
Steve Anderson (Spring 1979; Vol. 4 No. 2); PDF (4.17 MB)
Keep the station on the air
Sam Barnes (Summer 1979; Vol. 4 No. 3); PDF (579 KB)
Nui Ba Den
Sam Barnes (Fall 1979; Vol. 4 No. 4); PDF (2.16 MB)
the Richardson Highway
SSG David Bruen (Spring 1980; Vol. 5 No. 2); PDF (9.18 MB)
101st Signal Battalion
Rebecca Robbins (Summer 1980; Vol. 5 No. 3); PDF (4.41 MB)
We, too, serve proudly: a historical sketch of the black soldier in the Signal Corps
SFC Samuel Barnes (Summer 1977; Vol. 2 No. 3; with corrections from Fall 1977; Vol. 2 No. 4); PDF (4.60 MB)
Yesterday in Signal Corps history
Photo feature that began with Vol. 7 No. 1 and ended with Vol. 8 No. 4; a slight name change to "Yesterday in the Signal Corps" started the feature again in Vol. 9 No. 1.
Fall 1982 (Vol. 7 No. 4); PDF (1.23 MB)
Fall 1983 (Vol. 8 No. 4); PDF (910 KB)
Spring 1982 (Vol. 7 No. 2); PDF (2.62 MB)
Spring 1983 (Vol. 8 No. 2); PDF (1.30 MB)
Summer 1982 (Vol. 7 No. 3); PDF (1.16 MB)
Summer 1983 (Vol. 8 No. 3); PDF (1.16 MB)
Winter 1982 (Vol. 7 No. 1); PDF (3.06 MB)
Winter 1983 (Vol. 8 No. 1); PDF (1.38 MB)
Yesterday in the Signal Corps
Vol. 9 No. 1 began this feature as a photo feature (continuing after a slight name change from "Yesterday in Signal Corps history"), but by the time it ended with Vol. 14 No. 4, the feature had become a story-and-photo history sketch, much like the defunct "Record Traffic from the Past."
Fall 1984 (Vol. 9 No. 4); PDF (1.26 MB)
Fall 1985 (Vol. 10 No. 4); PDF (1.25 MB)
Fall 1986 (Vol. 11 No. 4); PDF (1.45 MB)
Fall 1987 (Vol. 12 No. 4); PDF (2.42 MB)
Spring 1984 (Vol. 9 No. 2); PDF (1.35 MB)
Spring 1986 (Vol. 11 No. 2); PDF (1.45 MB)
Summer 1984 (Vol. 9 No. 3); PDF (1.35 MB)
Summer 1985 (Vol. 10 No. 3); PDF (1.21 MB)
Summer 1986 (Vol. 11 No. 3); PDF (2.82 MB)
Summer 1987 (Vol. 12 No. 3); PDF (1.97 MB)
Winter 1984 (Vol. 9 No. 1); PDF (1.19 MB)
Winter 1985 (Vol. 10 No. 1); PDF (1.45 MB)
(Note: Although the edition information at the bottom of the page states "Fall 1984," this is an error in the original magazine.)
Winter 1986 (Vol. 11 No. 1); PDF (1.29 MB)
Winter/Spring 1987 (Vol. 12 No. 1/2); PDF (2.09 MB)