[ARC5] R-10 in the receivers.

[don davis]

Do you have a source or citation for prisoners being used for tech writing?  I did a lot of it in the AF in 60's and 70's, and was frequently over worked.  I may have felt like a prisoner...

73 de don ad6pb

-----Original Message-----
From: ARC5 [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brian Clarke
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 1:13 AM
To: Mike Morrow; ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] R-10 in the receivers.

Be very careful about accepting explanations in military technical manuals.  During war conditions, able-bodied and intelligent people were occupied in designing, making and using this stuff. Very few had time to write explanations. The writing of explanations was often given to prisoners, for whom high-level education in physics and electronics would have been unlikely. I have found many explanations that read well, but in terms of demonstrating electronics knowledge, were pure, arrant nonsense. This explanation falls very near that category. The problem is that a small part of it is probably correct -