[Heathkit] HEATHs ROGER MACE

Sat, 8 Jun 2002 04:41:53 -0500

Bob, the picture in Penson's book is what started this. The picture of
Roger Mace vs the picture i have of Wesley R. Mace shows many
simularities. Thanks for your answer.   jack

On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 19:23:17 -0400 Bwana Bob <[email protected]> writes:
> According to Chuck Penson's Heathkit book, Roger Mace was ex-navy 
> with
> no formal degree in electronics. Before moving to Benton Harbor he 
> lived
> in Cleveland. In addition to the DX-100, Mace designed Heath's 
> first
> amateur product: the extremely popular AT-1. Many Heath Amateur 
> products
> of the late 50's and 60's had indian names because Mace's wife was
> American Indian. There is a picture of him on page 12 of Penson's 
> book.
> 
> 
>                                 73,
> 
>                                 Bob WB2VUF
> 
> 
> [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone on the kist have any info about Roger Mace? As you all 
> know,
> > he was one of the first designers of Heathkits.
> >  (DX-100) etc.    I think that he may be the Wesley R. Mace who 
> was the
> > best man at my wedding in Oakland CA, 1945 when we were both in 
> the Radar
> > division at NAS Alameda (Navy to youse guys).
> >          old jack
> > 
> > JACK IVERSON   K0EWU    ARRL, TCA, RCA, QCWA, OOTC,
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