On 2/13/2017 12:56 PM, Brooke Clarke wrote:
Wes: Is this the patent for the IMPATT diode power amplifier?
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3931587
No. As I recall the designer (or at least a prime mover) was a guy named
Eisenhart. The Hughes organization at the time had engineering done at Conoga
Park and production here in Tucson. I was in an auxiliary wing of the Conoga
Park division located in Tucson to support production. Engineering didn't think
we were smart enough to build the stuff here and thought it should be built at
Hughes Electron Dynamics Division in Torrance. We of course thought otherwise
so I was tasked to live at Conoga Park for six months to learn the system. When
I came back we broke I don't know how many rules to build two prototype
transmitters on the factory floor using hourly assembly workers. Lotsa fun.
BTW, you and I have met. It was 27 years ago almost to the day! (February 15,
1990) I know because I still have the trip report I wrote after visiting FEI to
review your design for an automatic test position for testing detector diodes.
In a serious amount of understatement, I described you as "a very capable
individual" but one who is spread too thin.
Wes
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