[Milsurplus] Re: GP-x Transmitter, RAX Rcvr? + TU Wanted

[William Donzelli]

> Everyone and everything was considered to be expendable;long life and
> good health were not issues in WWII unless you were injured.Ergo nomics
> did not begin to play a part in our lives untill car-pool tunnel
> sin-drone on and on became an issue with the wimps.
>   If ever there was an ergo set it has to be the BC-348-* and that was
> probably more accident then you might believe.

Not really true. The ball really started rolling with ergonomics in
the 1930s, and RCA was on top of it. The BC-348 is pretty nice
ergonomically because RCA expended resources to make it so.

For example, the "RCA knob" found on Navy equipment (and a few
aircraft sets, like ARE..ARH) is highly sought after because it really
is a good knob. I have seen the original report RCA wrote on the
studies of that knob - I think it is 11 pages long. All to make sure
you are comfortable turning a shaft.

Certainly ergonomics was not the thing it is today, but ARC managed to
show almost complete incompetence with the ARA/ATA (RU/GF is not
nearly as bad, I think, but that might be due to simplicity). RCA, GE,
Westinghouse, Western Electric, and Bendix had a few hiccups (ATD
leaps to mind, although the problems are confined to the transmitter
itself), but  in general showed excellent to good understanding of the
science - which really is a whole lot of common sense, when you boil
it down.

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Will

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Will