[Milsurplus] Why Germany lost the war

Richard Solomon dickw1ksz at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 00:12:28 EDT 2016


All this talk of why Germany lost the war reminds
me of the HBO show, Band of Brothers ...

There was a great line in one of the last shows that
I dare not repeat on the reflector lest I get tossed
off !!

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> No referral to any other manual. AND i have seen that this is the standard
> for German mil radios of that time.
>
> I admit, i have only seen maybe 12-15 of their manuals.
>
> I hope their radar manuals were better!
>
> The ONLY German manuals i have seen that approach the level of our say,
> SCR-274 manual, are the manuals for
>
> the FuG10 aircraft radio and its direction finder EZ6. These are
> ‘large-format’ while the rest, the average manual,
>
> is the small size, like our SCR-194 or SCR-203 manuals.
>
> I have only seen one Japanese manual, which seemed to be for the 94-6
> walkie talkie, and i considered the booklet
>
> technically next to useless. There is one manual for a Japanese receiver,
> Type 92 something, done by the U.S.
>
> military, and i’m sure it’s actually better than the actual Japanese
> manual for their own receiver.
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>
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> I DO find voltage tables very useful.
>
> -Hue
>
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> *From:* Dennis DuVall [mailto:duvallddennis at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 13, 2016 7:05 PM
> *To:* Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
> *Cc:* Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Milsurplus] Why Germany lost the war
>
>
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> Any indication as to the technical level of the personnel for which the
> manual was written, i.e. operators, installers, field level maintenance,
> etc?  Also, any indication of supplemental lists
>
> or publications.   Read someplace that their artillery pieces were
> complicated and manufactured to a level of precision that precluded most
> field maintenance. Had to be shipped back to t
>
> he factory to be repaired.  Their radios the same maybe?
>
>
>
> Dennis D.  W7QHO
>
> Glendale, CA
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> On Mar 12, 2016, at 5:47 PM, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
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> I was looking thru a German manual for the Fusprech.a  transceiver for
> armored cars.
>
> Altho there’s a circuit description down to the component level, in vain
> did i look for any mention of
>
> the actual IF frequency.  Nor is there any resistance or voltage
> measurement table, something that
>
> even a manual for the lowliest of Hallicrafters Echophone receivers would
> include. Were these data
>
> GEHEIM! ( secret ) ??
>
> -Hue Miller
>
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