Skip: Most of this is pure speculation on my part. Lunar electronics was run by WB6NMT Louis Anciaux when he was in Calif. I always heard he was in the military and Lunar was a side business that he closed when he transferred elsewhere. My speculation is that Louis and Chip had a deal where Chip built the preamps that Louis sold under the Lunar Electronics label.
I agree, I also liked the Jannel preamps. In the wsvhf and wsuhf world the only other person I know that is close to Chip's reputation for building preamps is WD5AGO. Tommy sold his products through Down East Microwave. John Lock kf0m at arrl.net > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of skipp025 > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Lunar & Angle Linear > > > My impression is/was Lunar was a commercial/amateur product line with > multiple persons running the business. Lunar also made some rf power > amplifiers. > > Angle Linear is probably just Chip doing what he seems to do very > well... low noise rf preamplifiers. > > The interesting part of some Lunar Preamplifiers was the 1/4 or 1/2 > wave line at the circuit front-end. > > In addition to the Gasfet preamp brands I mentioned Bob also talked > about Janel and Hamtronics. I really, really like the Janel stuff... > but as with most good brands they were swallowed up by someone and > quickly went away. :-( > > Past a min technical design, construction and alignment preamps can > be a pretty straight-forward desk top project for most people. Since > they can be so easily made... even low cost project kits like the > Hamtronics and the pre-built Dick Smith Electronics (rip in USA) units > are pretty darn good performers. > > I'm not sure how long the Lunar brand is/was around... but I've seen > their ads in a number of old Ham Mags... Maybe someone can get Chip > to tell the story some day. > > cheers, > s. >
