>Ian:
> I agree with you 110% about Collins/Rockwell technology. That
>particularl era/group of engineers really set the benchmarks. If you read
>through any of their publications (of which there are, sadly, way too few)
>you can clearly see how RF engineering was properly done by-the-numbers.
>Warren Bruene's ingeniously simple little directional wattmeter was really
>an
>outgrowth of the circuitry that they had developed over a period of many
>years for phase-detection in auto-tuners.
>
> My opinion is that the level of wisdom which that group brought to RF
>amp design (not to mention many other areas of communications gear design)
>makes much of the discourse that take place here look like cosmic debris.
>
> Like it or not, when you design stuff for the military and aviation
>industries, one-liners WILL NOT do. You do it right, prove that it is right,
>no excuses, no passing the buck to invisible experts. If you don't, you
>don't get paid.
> ...
** unless you are the contractor for the Osprey project. As i recall,
there was an Army radar-controlled anti-aircraft gun that sucked up a
couple of $Gigadollars before taxpayers found out the Russkys and the
Israelis had tried the idea and determined it wouldn't work because of
refraction due to normal temperature variation in the atmosphere.
- R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734, AG6K,
www.vcnet.com/measures.
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