[ARC5] Selectivity improvement in ARC-5 receivers - anotherquestion.

[Brian Clarke]

Hello Ken,

Dr Drake was at least a genius when it came to design. He supported Major 
Edwin Armstrong who had just been screwed over by Davidoff Sarnoff WRT his 
invention of the super-heterodyne principle. If he needed a component and 
there wasn't one available, he designed and made one. Just look at those 
high-stab, light-weight Rx chasses, and the high-stab padding capacitors, 
for instance ...
I gather he was also a consummate political wheeler and dealer. I suspect 
Gordon Eliot White knows.
Drake's main shortcoming was rapid scaling-up of manufacturing.

73 de Brian, VK2GCE.

On Tuesday, June 03, 2014 10:47 AM, you said:


<snip>
 As far as I am concerned, all those folks who were involved in
> the design of the ARC-5 were sheer geniuses.