It was actually the "traitorous eight".
To get more of the story, and what happened after, find the movie
"Something Ventured", available on the web.
And you can look for me in one of the photos. I'm unlabeled, though.
73, doug
On 09-Jan-14 16:52, Capell Joseph wrote:
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On Jan 9, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
On 1/9/2014 9:52 AM, WILLIS COOKE wrote:
I did the same for USS Stewart with a TS-440 but they changed
management and threw me out along with the TS-440. I think they
wanted me to modify the TBL to a modern SSB Transceiver or prove that
TS-440s were used by the US Navy in WW2.
The RMHS out here on the western frontier has a story regarding the radio console from a
Victory ship that they were going to restore. Somewhere during the Vietnam War, some call
signs and frequencies had been penciled on one of the front panels. Their first thought
was to scrub them off and clean up the panel however the museum curators gave a firm
"No." The somewhat crude notes were part of the history of the console and as
far as I know, they remain to this day. Museum curators are very sensitive to things
like that.
Modifying a TBL to SSB would be a very interesting project! :-))
I am pretty sure that even
the Japanese Navy did not have them in WW2 because Western Electric
did not invent the transistor until 1948.
Actually, it was Bell Labs ... a team led by William Shockley. He ultimately
made his way to what would become Silicon Valley and founded Shockley
Semiconductor Labs. The Bell Labs work was primarily point-contact
semiconductors and Shockley worked more to develop junction devices.
Unfortunately, he was a domineering boss with a side dish of paranoia, and
people found him impossible to work for/with. At one point, a large number of
his staff [17 or so if I remember correctly] resigned en masse and moved over
to what would become Fairchild Semiconductor. All told, engineers and
scientists from Shockley labs founded well over 50 Silicon Valley companies.
In the latter half of his life, he became exceedingly controversial, adhering
to theories of eugenics and, as a Nobel Laureate, managed to bring a lot of
notoriety on himself. I know all of this because here in Auburn CA, we have
Shockley Dr., Shockley Ct., and Shockley Cir. After his death and the death of
his wife, a final bequest from his estate was 20+ acres of undeveloped land
along Shockley Dr. to our local parks and recreation district. Auburn isn't
very big and excitement sort of resembles the solar cycle [every 11 years or so
:-)] so the bequest initiated a civic uproar about accepting the land given his
racist views since the bequest required that the land be named in his and his
wife's honor. The district finally accepted the land, I believe it is recorded
in their name, and no plaque or monument will ever appear.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org
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