[Elecraft] Farnsworth Method

[Phil Kane]

WILLIS COOKE wrote:

> I have not been able to find out who old
> Farnsworth was, but my guess is he was an operator
> about 1910 when the Bug got popular and he needed to
> train someone and wanted to use his bug. 

B'Gosh and B'Golly!  Don't know who "old Farnsworth" was?

Philo T. Farnsworth was a Utah native who in 1927 got the first patent 
for the "image dissector" video camera tube which enabled television as 
we know it.  RCA's Sarnoff stole it and the designation of "Inventor of 
TV" from him just as he - Sarnoff - stole FM radio from Major Edwin 
Armstrong but that's a different rant.  Some of the FM and TV 
transmitters serving Salt Lake City are located on a mountaintop named 
Farnsworth Peak in his honor.

He was born in 1906, entered Brigham Young University in 1920, and there 
is no indication in his biography that he was a radio operator, ham or 
otherwise.  His electronic genius extended to other areas, primarily 
development of electronic devices.

Just like Major Armstrong, his battle with Sarnoff's RCA took its toll 
on him, but it's been only the past few decades that his honor and 
achievements have been recognized for what they were.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402