"Richard Fry" wrote in message
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"Walter Maxwell"
Correct on both counts, Richard, thanks for reminding Reg, I forgot to. Did I
mention that I had the privilege of working at Brown's RCA antenna lab along
side Epstein for several years? Bob Lewis had left RCA when I arrived, but I
knew him later as a ham, W2EBS.
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That would have been a privilege. When with RCA I worked a bit with Matti
Siukola, Oded Ben-Dov, Nick Nikolayuk and others at the RCA broadcast antenna
design center and test range at Gibbsboro, NJ . Great facility in those days.

RF
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Very interesting, Richard, of all the years I've been on this NG you are the
first RCA person I've met on the NG. What years were you with RCA?

While at the RCA Princeton Labs I also worked with O.M. (Woody) Woodward, Bruce
Rankin, and Don Peterson. Perhaps you knew them. I joined RCA in 1949,
transferred to the antenna lab in 1957, and later originated the antenna lab at
the then new Astro-Electronics Division in Hightstown. Was located there until I
retired to DeLand, Florida in 1980. While at Princeton I developed the entire
antenna system for TIROS 1, the World's first weather satellite.

I never had the pleasure of meeting any of the guys at Gibbsboro, but the names
of Matti and Oded came up quite often. I heard Woody and Jess Epstein talking
with them on the phone quite frequently.

I also spent some time at Cherry Hill as part of a three-man team developing the
3.6 GHz dish used on Lunar Rover, the moon buggy. I performed all the final
impedance and antenna pattern measurements on the three dishes prior to delivery
to NASA.

Perhaps we can meet some day and discuss our experiences at RCA. I consider
myself fortunate to have been there during the early days of space exploration,
they were truly exciting days.

Walt, W2DU