[Milsurplus] making sense of nonsense

[William Donzelli]

> You have aircraft transmitters both
> AR- and  G-.

The G series was discontinued when the A series came out. The GPs and GOs
that we all know and love are actually the last of the lines. Yes, there
are (were) GP-1 and GO-1s, back in the mid 1930s.

> The German system had some odd points too. The overall system, FuG+number, was okay,
> for example FuG10,  "Radio Set-10", but the individual elements had names like 30WSa, "Thirty
> watt sender model-a".  They never had a chance to get up thru the letter z, but you can see this
> is limited, like the US Navy's system.

If someone could point me towards a detailed taxonomy of German equipment,
that would be great. U.S. Coast Guard stuff as well.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org