I had a boss at JPL that used a similar saying: "If its good enough to do right, its good enough to do imperfect", meaning to finish it versus making it perfect but never getting there.
I have a Drake MN2000 tuner waiting for a 8877 to be built. Actually, I will use it with the CCI 300w sspa. Ed - KL7UW K3 #4043 ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:59:33 -0800 From: Alan Bloom <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Milt Sullivan, RL Drake Chief Engineer, SK To: [email protected], Bill Frost <[email protected]> Cc: Reflector Elecraft <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Message-ID: <1289541573.1421.63.ca...@ulinux-desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Milt was a good guy. I believe his title was VP of Engineering when I was there 1976-1979. Even though he was supposed to be an executive at that point he still loved to get his hands dirty. I remember him coming up with creative ideas to solve engineering problems on some designs I was working on at the time. For example, the MN2700 kilowatt antenna tuner required some high-voltage, high-current fixed capacitors. We were quoted a ridiculously high price and a 6-month lead time by the vendor. So we figured out a way to make our own capacitors from Teflon printed circuit board (for low loss / high Q) spray-painted with Q dope to prevent corona discharge. Milt was a realist about project management. He was very aware that engineers have a tendency to try to design everything to perfection, regardless of the schedule or cost. He had a sign over his desk that read, "Good enough is better than perfect." Alan N1AL 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-800*w, 432-100w, 1296-testing*, 3400-winter? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== *temp not in service ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
