[ARC5] First and Last Q-5er article

[Richard Schumann]

Hi Gordon,

Your statement about being a journalist intrigued me, so I input "Gordon White journalist"  on Google and found this tidbit that the other fellows on this list might interesting:

http://www.bookish.com/authors/gordon-white/54f325d4-756f-465d-9cca-2408aa55e0a1

I was wondering why you never signed a call on your posts and I guess my question is two fold:

Were you ever a ham?

What sparked your interest in the ARC-5 line and how did you get involved in writing for ham rags?

Curious in Milwaukie, OR..

Richard kn7sfz



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: gordon white 
  To: Bill Pileggi 
  Cc: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:41 AM
  Subject: Re: [ARC5] First and Last Q-5er article


       Thanks for the link to the 73 article. I have downloaded it and 
  inserted it back into the issue of 73 where it belongs. Fifty years 
  later it refreshed my own memory quite a bit!!

       The technical stuff came mostly from the now late Paul O. Farnham, 
  who taught me a lot. Paul was a great receiver engineer and a good 
  interview. Helped me understand (I hope) technical points that I was not 
  trained in, being a history major at Cornell rather than an engineer. My 
  father had graduated from Cornell as an engineer, so I guess I had 
  enough of him in me to be interestedin technical subjects. Stood me in 
  good stead as a newspaperman in an increasingly technical world. One of 
  my major stories, 15 years further on, was radioactive fallout from 
  atomic bomb tests.

       The 73 piece has photos of the prototype Command receivers, with 
  only two IF stages.

    - Gordon White
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