[Elecraft] Milt Sullivan, RL Drake Chief Engineer, SK

[Amateur Radio Operator N5GE]

I began using Drake equipment in 1977.  Between then and 1983 I spoke with him a
few times regarding repairs and trouble shooting of the  4C-Line equipment and
later the 7-Line equipment I had.  I still have the TR7 and R7.

Buddy was a nice man and easy to deal with.

I'm sorry he's left us.

73 Buddy,

Tom Childers
Radio Amateur N5GE
Licensed since 1976
QCWA Member 35102

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:02:10 -0800, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

>This was in today's ARRL Letter.
>
>Milton A. Sullivan Jr, ex-K8YDO, Former Chief Engineer at R. L. Drake 
>(SK)Milton A. "Buddy" Sullivan Jr, ex-K8YDO, of Washington, DC -- the 
>former chief engineer at the R. L. Drake Company 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._L._Drake_Company> -- passed away from a 
>stroke on October 28. He was 85. Sullivan designed and oversaw the 
>designs of all the most significant Drake Amateur Radio products, 
>including the 1A, 2B and 2NT transmitter, all the 4 lines and the 
>beginning of the 7 line.
>
>After retiring from Drake in 1984, Sullivan ran his own business selling 
>and setting up satellite television systems, an offshoot of his later 
>projects at Drake that involved designing satellite equipment. After 
>that, he went back to work full time as chief engineer for Lytton 
>Electronics, where he worked until his final retirement in 1990. In 
>1993, he and his wife Judith moved to South Carolina where Sullivan 
>worked for Alpha Delta, the small company owned by his former Drake 
>colleague and long time friend, Don Tyrrell, W8AD. Sullivan donated his 
>body to science. A US Navy veteran, he will be interred at Arlington 
>National Cemetery after a term with the Georgetown University Medical 
>School. -- /Thanks to John Sullivan and Don Tyrrell, W8AD, for the 
>information/
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