[Milsurplus] Link 1941 FM vs Motorola

Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:54:27 -0600

Marty:

According to Fred himself at a Radio Club of America dinner 8 or 10 years
ago, it wasn't Galvin, but Armstrong's lawyers who did that to him.  10
year old memory sez long involved story best explained by lawyers, but it
had to do with equal representation of all defendants in Armstrong's
attempt to recover royalties and insure enforcement (wrong word?) of his
FM patents.  I forget who the real target was, but my suspicion would be
Brigadier General David S.  The lawyers said he couldn't sue selected
parties and ignore others.  Armstrong and Link had a handshake agreement
before WW2 that Link could build any FM gear for the government royalty
free, which he did, but nuttin' in writing, which might not have been
valid anyway.  Again, see your favorite lawyer for details.  Armstrong
later apologized to Link, but that did nothing for their now destroyed
friendship, nor Link's financial situation.  I think all that is written
up somewhere in Link retrospectives, but I have no specific document to
point to.

73,
George
W5VPQ 

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 13:28:52 -0500 (EST) "Marty R's GI-stuff haunt"
<[email protected]> writes:
> I sed b4 that Link got a contract to build a slew of SCR-294s which
> were a 20-28 mgc (yup, Link's term) FM.
> 
> Reason was Galvin (Moto) couldn't make xtal-controlled FM modulators
> go in the SCR 508 (BC603/604)
> 
> But Link used Armstrong Phase Modulation ckt. that had been applied 
> so
> successfully at places like CT State Poh-leese.
> 
> Just read a manual from a milsurplus habitue' that says the Link
> BC-499 & BC-500 exactly fit the eqpt. rack for the SCR508.
> 
> Guessed the SCR294 (Link BC-499/500) smeared egg on Galvin's face, 
> but
> didn't know it was this bad.
> 
> I speculate Galvin dint get over it & sicc'ed the Fed contract 
> lawyers
> on Link in '46.  Wasn't just the egg-on-face, it was also to shut 
> Link
> outa Poh-leese biz.
> 
> It worked, Link had to slink outa mkt.
> 
> Well we've a Link-pair here that runs ~45 mgc., not 20-28 as in 
> SCR-294.
> Exact same ckt. as BC-499/500 but loctal insteada octal tubes.  And
> they're marked like  JAN-7C5, JAN 7C7, etc.  And it's 6V AND it's
> not packaged for a SCR-508 wrack.
> 
> But the JAN stamps say GI buy.  So I'm guessing this set was either
> 
>    -pre SCR-294 & used in w. LA 1940 eqpt. tests
> 
>           --or--
> 
>    -for MP on-base Poh-leese cahs during ww2
> 
> CAN ANYONE CONFIRM???  I'M SURE THERE'S A GREAT STORY THERE.
> 
> May use Links outa kid's wagon on 51mgc w. a tweaked BC-1000 @ 
> Dayton.
> 
> Everyone read the "May" word?
> 
>   Marty
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