[TMC] Why GPR-90s Look So Good

[Woody Demitz]

Some proportions are inherently pleasing to the eye. The Greeks and Romans knew this, and that is why at least some of their buildings remain beautiful to the eye, even in ruins. The principle the ancient architects followed has many names--the Golden Ratio, Golden Section or Divine Proportion--but it had to do with the ratio of the length of the rectangle formed by the building to its height.  The ratio is 1.6180339887.. (Thank you, Wikipedia). The ratio can be applied to pictures as well , and that suggests that perhaps the agreed-to-by-all beauty of a GPR-90 front panel may benefit from the same design principle. I suspect that the perceived pleasing rectangle need not be the full panel, but the rectangles formed by its component parts as well--for example, the frequency dials plus tuning knobs.

Or maybe I've had too much coffee this morning. Perhaps someone who owns a GPR-90 can test the theory.

73,
Woody KO3S



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On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:18 AM, "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

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>> A lively, erudite and enjoyable discussion.....as long as you are a radio
>> geek...thanks all...
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>> Brown Beezer
>   This is an unusual list because we have a couple of real historians on it who have done a lot of digging of the sort not often found John Polton is perhaps the main contributor since he has befriended the family who owned TMC.  There is also something peculiarly attractive about TMC products, hard to say what. For instance, the GPR-90, which is, frankly, only a medium-good receiver, is one of the best looking and feeling ever.
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