[Boatanchors] Lafayette Transceiver

[Robert Nickels]

On 2/5/2022 12:17 AM, manualman at juno.com wrote:
> Frank Lester, W2AMJ, designed a number of their
> transmitter models and was manager of Lafayette's amateur radio
> department. It's conceivable he, or one of his coworkers, designed the
> Model 19 and Model 30 transceivers.
>
> Frank later left Lafayette and went to work for Hammarlund.

Unrelated to this transceiver, but that's interesting confirmation of 
something I was wondering about just yesterday as I had in my head that 
Frank Lester W2AMJ was a radio designer. Then I came across several 
letters bearing his signature as Sales Manager, Communications Products, 
for Hammarlund.   So it sounds like he did what later would be called 
"going to the dark side" when a technical guy moves into 
sales/marketing.  (As did I!)

And to complete the story, there's a nice tribute to 2AMJ/W2AMJ/W4AMJ here:

https://www.qcwa.org/w2amj-00013-sk.htm

73, Bob W9RAN