[BARC-List] BARC Question of the Week

[KA1MOM at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/26/04 11:32:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
k1nun at netscape.net writes:
Component suppliers
All Electronics (especially LEDs)
Mouser (especially surface mount)
Digi-Key (for the stuff nobody else has)

Radio or electronic people from history
Hugo Gernsback -- sold first complete ham stations in 1905 (spark gap 
transmitter, coherer receiver, all batteries, and "sender and catcher wires")
John W. Campbell Jr. -- editor and mentor to many science fiction authors who 
used to ragchew story ideas with writers on HF
E.E. "Doc" Smith -- Space opera author whose spacecraft weapons were ultra 
high power vacuum tubes operating outside the (glass) envelope in interplanetary 
space.
Sir Arthur Clarke -- self-educated radio expert and inventor who came up with 
the idea of geosynchronous satellites in 1947.

-= Bill, KA1MOM =-