[Boatanchors] LYSCO Trivia

[Bill Stewart]

Tnx Nick for the George Scott tid-bit. Any idea what the trial was about and what mite a QOS machine be? Do you have a link to this info?
73, Bill, K4JYS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick England" <navy.radio at gmail.com>
To: "Bill Stewart" <cwopr at embarqmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 4:20:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] LYSCO Trivia

George Scott was one of Lysco's founders, according to this trial transcript -
"Accordingly, in 1953, Dr. Ginsberg negotiated with Lysco
Manufacturing Company, Hoboken, New Jersey, and asked George Scott,
one of Lysco's founders, to redesign the old Q.O.S. machine to conform
with FCC requirements and to obtain FCC type approval. "

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Bill Stewart <cwopr at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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> After acquiring several Lysco Transmasters, over the last few years, I have often wondered where the name came from. Also, I haven't been able to find out much about the company history. I recently received a copy of a Lysco catalog, dated Jan 1951. After looking over it a few times, nothing much really popped out at me. However, a few days ago I happened to look at it again. The front cover has sketches of an airplane, boat, car and a radio tower/shack, depicting the possible uses of Lysco equipment. In fine print, on each of the sketches, were call letters. They were as follows and the 1959 call book yielded: W2ANW - LYdon; W2NEL - Schmidt; W2DRA - Scott & W2JJR - Lawrence. All were located in Rutherford, NJ. Looks like a good bet that 'Lysco' probably came from their last names. I've been wondering about that for a good while....ain't trivia interesting?
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> The only thing I know is they had a plant in Hoboken, NJ and East Rutherford, NJ. Can anyone add anymore about these guys and/or Lysco?
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> 73 de Bill K4JYS
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