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Marty and others:  George sent this note.  His Juno email won't let 
his reply go out
to the list....

At 06:28 PM 7/30/2009, gl4d21a at juno.com wrote:
>Yes, it was Fred Link.  Was president of the Radio Club of America 
>for a number of years.  I was fortunate to have had several chances 
>to hear him speak about the "old days" at Radio Club meetings, and 
>then to have some actual one on one time.  I was employed by General 
>Electric Mobile Rado for a time, so we had a lot of notes to compare.
>
>Fred and Ed Armstrong had a falling out at the beginning of WW2 over 
>the licensing issue, which was never resolved before Armstrong's 
>death.  It ended up costing Fred a large bundle of money to pay for 
>the royalties on those radios he built for the war effort.

I also had the pleasure of meeting and listening to him tell stories at some
of the IEEE local area meetings when he was a guest.  A real character!
I have his autograph on an old Link 250FS base station manual.  When 
he autographed
it he asked, "is it still operational?  It better be, all our stuff 
was well built...." :-)

"The Texas Tower shootout" story was a hilarious.:-)

Perry   w8au