[Milsurplus] Interesting web site

[David Stinson]

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From: "Hue Miller" <kargo_cult at msn.com>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Interesting web site


> Which makes me wonder: on a single place fighter plane,
> why would the receiver tuning control be provided at all?

One of the "improvements" that was incorporated in 
the Joint Army Navy AN/ARC-5 was "lock-tuning"
that removed the tuning crank from the pilot.  
ARC's Dr. Hull found that the pilots 
would call a couple of times and,
if not answered, assume the "darn receiver drifts"
(because that's what they'd been told 
by the 1920s and 1930s pilots who trained them, 
and who were right about something like
the SCR-134),  and so they started cranking.
The result was a deaf flight of aircraft with everyone 
on a different receive freq., who then landed 
and spread bad words and rumors 
about perfectly good radios.

73 Dave S.