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The Signal Corps awarded the contract for the XT-1 to the Ochs & Finch Company of West Hartford, Connecticut, on June 3, 1942, and it manifested at the Radiation Laboratory on July 10, 1942; the Army test center at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, on August 3, 1942, and the 584 saw its first successful test firing at that base on December 2, 1942. It was brought out to DEWS areas in April of 1943, and to the Third Antiaircraft Artillery Section in 1945 where it was tested in Lower New York Harbor. It was in action with 15 U.S. Army European Theater units as the war came to a close. The Signal Corps dropped the XT-1 program in August 1946, and assigned its ownership to the Army Ordnance Department.
For many months the Signal Corps and Western Electric engineers argued about a focal length of 10 (six feet) or 12 (eight feet) inches. As the Air Forces sojourned in Europe, the usual arguments about production cost and number of ground stations spoiled the situation. In the summer of 1943, however, the size of the antenna was no longer in dispute. The Signal Corps and Western Electric had agreed on a focal length of 16 feet and had commissioned drawing SCR-601-T8 from Western Electric. On August 26, 1943, the Army formally ordered SCR-601-T8. Three weeks later the SCR was ready for the Radiation Laboratory, and on September 7211a4ac4a