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[Gordon White]

Western Radio Amateur is the publication that got me to thinking about 
writing about the Command Sets. That was a long time ago.


Michael:

How deeply do you want to go into Boonton? I inherited a lot of stuff on 
Boonton and the RFL origins, from the local historian who was gonna do 
as book, but  didn't.  you might be interested. I'd be willing to poke 
through it and refresh my memory on just what is there.

  FDR in a political frenzy, canceled the commercial air mail contracts 
(making even less sense than canceling the P&O ports contract 
yesterday)  when he was sworn in, thus handing  the air mail to those 
poor fighter pilots in open-cockpit biplanes with lousy radios. The 
commercial lines were flying much better stuff. The former Secretary of 
War, Baker,  headed an investigating committee.  Even though what FDR 
did was wrong-headed, think of where we would have been eight years 
later if we had not discovered how pitifully prepared we were in '33


    The SCR-183 WAS the original Command Set -  so-named by the Air 
Corps. The Type K and subsequent superhet designs were just more modern 
versions.

- Gordon White