Sorry to hear that! I never met Al. Most of my Ten Tec dealing were with Jack Birchfield. Forget his callsign. I owned a PM2 and a PM-3 and later one of the first Argonaut transceivers. Visited the plant in Sevierville a couple of times. My step son used to live in Knoxville. He now lives in Lenoir City a bit further away from Sevierville.
73, Sandy W5TVW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "TopBand List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Elecraft List" <[email protected]>; "Tower Talk List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: [Elecraft] Al Kahn, K4FW, Silent Key | Reprinted from the North Shore Radio Club EMail List. | | Jim Brown | | = = = = = = = = = = | | K4FW, Albert R. Kahn, passed away on June 15th. Al started Ten-Tec | after being bored with retired life. He was also a member of FOC. | | He had previously started the speaker/ mic company Electro Voice. | | The company was founded by Al Kahn and Lou Burroughs in the basement of the | Century Tire and Rubber Company in South Bend, Indiana as Radio Engineers. | 1930 Kahn and Burroughs develop a public address system for Knute Rockne, the | football coach at Notre Dame University. Rockne uses the system to address his team | during drills on 4 adjacent fields. He calls the system his "Electric Voice..... | | | He was active on the bands till a few years ago, always attending the annual | "oldtimers picnic" at W9EFL 's (Noel ex of Deerfield & NORA) antenna farm in | Michigan. | | we lost another great ham.... | | Bill Steffey NY9H | | = = = = = = = = = = = | | Al Kahn was a great ham and a great human being. Under his management, both | Electro-Voice and TenTec, the two great companies he founded, were leaders in their | field, were professionally managed, and focussed on both quality and customer | service. A recent piece in QST pointed out the major support that Al Kahn gave to | ARRL at critical times of their existence. Al was also a major supporter of the | Heath company. Ham radio would be very different if Al Kahn had not walked our way. | | Jim Brown K9YC | | | _______________________________________________ | Elecraft mailing list | Post to: [email protected] | You must be a subscriber to post to the list. | Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): | http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft | | Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm | Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com | | | | -- | No virus found in this incoming message. | Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. | Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.2 - Release Date: 6/14/2005 | | _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
