[ARC5] R-10 in the receivers.

[Brian Clarke]

I am unwilling to name my source. I have signed the Official Secrets Act.
73 de Brian, VK2GCE

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:00 PM, you said:


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 -