[Hallicrafters] Fritz

[mac]

Well, back in his day (and ours) everyone didn't have worldwide  
distribution capability at their fingertips......

Dennis D. W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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On Nov 8, 2009, at 11:51 AM, SX-25 wrote:

> In the early 1980s I had the pleasure of speaking with Fritz while I  
> was president of a shortwave listeners club. Through a friend of  
> mine and former chief engineer of Hallicrafters, the late Bob Orwin,  
> W9YKA, I had been put in contact with Mr. Frank. I was wanting to  
> learn what copyright problems I might involve myself with if I  
> produced Hallicrafters' 1960s 45-RPM record, "The Amazing World of  
> Shortwave Listening" for free distribution. One day Fritz phoned me  
> and asked how he could help me. I explained what I wanted to do. He  
> laughed and he said, "Gee whiz...that's 25 years ago. Do you really  
> think anybody cares anymore? How could there be a problem even IF  
> anyone still cared?"
> It was  refreshing to meet someone with such a down-to-earth  
> approach. Ironically, the 1980s also marked the beginning of insane  
> possessiveness brought on largely by the software industry now to  
> where it can be a legal problem to use evens commonplace phrase like  
> "Just plain sense" if one of the  charlatans in today's business  
> environment has decided it is so-called "intellectual property."  
> It's too bad gentlemen like Fritz Frank aren't still running things  
> instead of the boneheads that now control such things.