[Boatanchors] Fw: Re: Lafayette Transceiver

[manualman at juno.com]

While working for Lafayette, Frank designed the "Lester" 6, 10, and 11
meter VHF Converter. It came in kit form and was sold by Lafayette. I
have several of the original "Lester" manuals that came from the
Lafayette files when they shut down.

As far as "going to the dark side" even I did that after a number of
years in the technical design field. I actually fould the sales,
marketing, and product/project manager (where I spent a lot of my career)
far more fun and more rewarding.

Pete, wa2cwa
www.manualman.com

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From: Robert Nickels <ranickels at gmail.com>
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 10:25:39 -0600
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Lafayette Transceiver
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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