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
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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
|
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