From tractorb at ihug.co.nz  Tue Aug 30 23:22:56 2016
From: tractorb at ihug.co.nz (Dave Brown)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:22:56 +1200
Subject: [Microwave] Polaplexer
Message-ID: <47B6B0D847114009A82A7C9084DCCB52@athlon3200>

According to an article by David Laag on the San Bernadino Microwave Society 
website, the originator of the polaplexer was evidently  Donovan "Tommy" 
Thompson, W6IFE, who was a central figure in Southern California microwave 
activity from 1947 through 1969.
His idea, the use of Polarity-Duplexing (The Pola-plexer), was the basis of 
nearly all early amateur microwave work with klystrons.

 In his article, Laag notes that  "In November 1955, Bill W6VIX published 
the first of three articles covering the design and construction of a 
"Pola-plexer" for 3,300 Mhz."

 I can't find this series of articles in QST so where were they published? 
There IS a single article by W6VIX in QST for December 1957 that deals with 
the polaplexer but that's the only W6VIX reference that appears in the 
cumulative index.

 Any hints as to where I can track down the three articles mentioned by Laag 
would be appreciated.

 73

 Dave, ZL3FJ




From geraldj at netins.net  Wed Aug 31 00:01:50 2016
From: geraldj at netins.net (Dr. Gerald N. Johnson)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:01:50 -0500
Subject: [Microwave] Polaplexer
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I googled W6VIX Polaplexor and one of the three hits was a 73 magazine a 
30 mb download that has an article on 10 GHz Polaplexor.
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=w6vix+polaplexor&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

Changing the search to W6IFE Polaplexor turned up several more hits 
including articles in Ham Radio magazine that the links download. There 
might be more by putting the hyphen in Pola-plexor.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 8/30/2016 10:22 PM, Dave Brown wrote:
> According to an article by David Laag on the San Bernadino Microwave
> Society website, the originator of the polaplexer was evidently Donovan
> "Tommy" Thompson, W6IFE, who was a central figure in Southern California
> microwave activity from 1947 through 1969.
> His idea, the use of Polarity-Duplexing (The Pola-plexer), was the basis
> of nearly all early amateur microwave work with klystrons.
>
> In his article, Laag notes that "In November 1955, Bill W6VIX published
> the first of three articles covering the design and construction of a
> "Pola-plexer" for 3,300 Mhz."
>
> I can't find this series of articles in QST so where were they
> published? There IS a single article by W6VIX in QST for December 1957
> that deals with the polaplexer but that's the only W6VIX reference that
> appears in the cumulative index.
>
> Any hints as to where I can track down the three articles mentioned by
> Laag would be appreciated.
>
> 73
>
> Dave, ZL3FJ
>
>
>
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