After you've watched that, you'll be really glad Wayne and Eric didn't
have to get venture capital for this jewel of a company.
73, doug
On 09-Jan-14 19:10, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-717-1197 wrote:
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 <k6...@foothill.net> 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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