[Elecraft] {OT} WW2DEM

[Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197]

After you've watched that, you'll be really glad Wayne and Eric didn't 
have to get venture capital for this jewel of a company.
73, doug


On 09-Jan-14 19:10, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote:
> It was actually the "traitorous eight".
> To get more of the story, and what happened after, find the movie
> "Something Ventured", available on the web.
> And you can look for me in one of the photos.  I'm unlabeled, though.
> 73, doug
>
>
> On 09-Jan-14 16:52, Capell Joseph wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jan 9, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/9/2014 9:52 AM, WILLIS COOKE wrote:
>>>> I did the same for USS Stewart with a TS-440 but they changed
>>>> management and threw me out along with the TS-440.  I think they
>>>> wanted me to modify the TBL to a modern SSB Transceiver or prove that
>>>> TS-440s were used by the US Navy in WW2.
>>>
>>> The RMHS out here on the western frontier has a story regarding the
>>> radio console from a Victory ship that they were going to restore.
>>> Somewhere during the Vietnam War, some call signs and frequencies had
>>> been penciled on one of the front panels.  Their first thought was to
>>> scrub them off and clean up the panel however the museum curators
>>> gave a firm "No."  The somewhat crude notes were part of the history
>>> of the console and as far as I know, they remain to this day.  Museum
>>> curators are very sensitive to things like that.
>>>
>>> Modifying a TBL to SSB would be a very interesting project! :-))
>>>
>>>   I am pretty sure that even
>>>> the Japanese Navy did not have them in WW2 because Western Electric
>>>> did not invent the transistor until 1948.
>>>
>>> Actually, it was Bell Labs ... a team led by William Shockley.  He
>>> ultimately made his way to what would become Silicon Valley and
>>> founded Shockley Semiconductor Labs.  The Bell Labs work was
>>> primarily point-contact semiconductors and Shockley worked more to
>>> develop junction devices.  Unfortunately, he was a domineering boss
>>> with a side dish of paranoia, and people found him impossible to work
>>> for/with.  At one point, a large number of his staff [17 or so if I
>>> remember correctly] resigned en masse and moved over to what would
>>> become Fairchild Semiconductor.  All told, engineers and scientists
>>> from Shockley labs founded well over 50 Silicon Valley companies.
>>>
>>> In the latter half of his life, he became exceedingly controversial,
>>> adhering to theories of eugenics and, as a Nobel Laureate, managed to
>>> bring a lot of notoriety on himself.  I know all of this because here
>>> in Auburn CA, we have Shockley Dr., Shockley Ct., and Shockley Cir.
>>> After his death and the death of his wife, a final bequest from his
>>> estate was 20+ acres of undeveloped land along Shockley Dr. to our
>>> local parks and recreation district.  Auburn isn't very big and
>>> excitement sort of resembles the solar cycle [every 11 years or so
>>> :-)] so the bequest initiated a civic uproar about accepting the land
>>> given his racist views since the bequest required that the land be
>>> named in his and his wife's honor.  The district finally accepted the
>>> land, I believe it is recorded in their name, and no plaque or
>>> monument will ever appear.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Fred K6DGW
>>> - Northern California Contest Club
>>> - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
>>> - www.cqp.org
>>>
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