[QCWA] QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91's website was updated this afternoon

[Richard Rucker]

Our website was updated this afternoon:
http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/chapter91/


Under RECENT EVENTS:
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Friday, 19 Oct 07: Tour of the Naval Research Lab (NRL)

" One Sunday morning last summer on our 2 meter net, we were talking  
about the history of radar when Mark Parent, KC4AFU, joined us. Mark  
works at the U.S. Naval Research Lab where the principles of radar  
were first exploited by A. Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young beginning in  
1922.. Mark asked if we'd like a tour, and our answer was an  
enthusiastic 'Yes!' ...

One treat was to have Ed Lyon in person with us as we watched a movie  
made in 1988 of Ed talking to NRL staff about one of his favorite  
subjects, the history of radar. Ed is a well-known radar expert at  
NRL and has written over 120 papers on the history of radar in  
addition to some 250 other technical papers and reports on radar,  
countermeasures, flight simulation, and nuclear reactors. He holds  
several patents in electronics and rocket propulsion. It was a real  
treat to have him there in person to answer our many questions.

Two of his excellent papers are available here:
http://www.antiquewireless.org/museum/museumstore.htm#otbback

1. Ed Lyon, "The International Contest for RADAR,"
     The AWA Review, Vol. 9, 1995, pp    97 - 180.

2. Ed Lyon, "The Real Story of the Magnetron,"
     The AWA Review, Vol. 9, 1995, pp 181 - 204.

To read my reviews of these two articles, go our website, click on  
Recent Events, click on "Friday, 19 Oct 07: Tour of the Naval  
Research Lab."  Then scroll down and you will see clickable links  
that will take your browser to:

"Ed Lyon on the History of Radar"

"The Real Story of the Magnetron"

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