[ARC5] Selectivity improvement in ARC-5 receivers - anotherquestion.

[gordon white]

R.L. Drake was someone different.


     A.R.C.was originally R.F.L, Radio Frequency Laboratories, founded 
by Edward Weston. R.W. Seabury was the first chairman, Lewis M. Hull was 
the first president of A.R.C. and Frederick H. Drake was the chief 
transmitter designer. Paul O. Farnham was the chief receiver designer.  
J.E. Johanson was the builder of prototypes.

     It was actually Hull who wined and dined Hap Arnold and the other 
Air Corps big-wigs. They would fly up to the A.R.C. field in Boonton, 
N.J. for weekends and eat, drink and play poker with Hull and Drake. 
(Farnham was too shy to mix with that crowd.)

     At one point in the 1930s Western Electric was  described as unable 
to deliver on one of the early SCR-183 contracts in order to give it to 
R.F.L.

     I had a lot of communications with Paul Farnham, and I  truly 
regret that when he died his notebooks disappeared. In my mind Farnham 
was the resident genius at Boonton and he and Johanson came up with the 
Type K design, which was truly revolutionary in terms of putting such a 
fine receiver in such a small space, and avoiding the usual military 
practice of trying to put too many "features" into equipment and making 
so many changes that nothing ever gets done on time and on budget.

      - Gordon Eliot White