[Milsurplus] German receivers

[Hue Miller]

I was looking at the innards of a couple WW2 era German receivers 
the other day and i noticed something i thought nice: the variable
capacitors for tuning had complete metal covers. A nice touch that
could prevent possible damage to plates while being worked on, or
such. One receiver, however, had been postwar modified to ham-
bands only from the previous general coverage. I was thinking, it
might be an option to simply remove the limiting and bandset 
capacitors to restore the original coverage, but when i saw the
tuning capacitor, i saw only 1 plate left on each gang! End of 
story!
I also had a look at the manual for the German FuG10 and 
EZ6 LF navig receiver manuals ( can't recall now what the EZ6
plus its ferrite core remote controlled loop, is actually
nomenclatured. ) These are the only  2 manuals i have seen,
out of about 20 German equipment manuals, that meet the
standard of US radio manuals such as the AN/ARC-5.  In other
words, thoroughly modern manuals, not holdovers from the 
skimpy manuals style of the 1930s.
-Hue Miller  K7HUE
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