Great Technical References from N1UL, Dr. Ulrich Rohde

Arthur Collins et Hulrich Rhode, 2 étoiles dans le domaine de l'inginering...

 

The story of Art Collins is unfortunately not easy to dig out and thus we take pieces of it to mythologize the man.

Art was quite the innovator/inventor and knew how to press against the patent monopolies. That is what put him in business in the Great Depression. Needless to say, a variety of key radio technologies came out of Collins Radio (later Rockwell Collins). Totally worth celebrating.

What is less well known is what essentially put Art Collins out of business: a version of what we would now call 'the internet'--a distributed, wireless connected(at least in part) computer network--some 50+ years ago.

Talk about being ahead of your time, this is the poster child. Art lost his job on that one.

RS is still going strong because it has a variety of technologies and is not heavily compromised by the failure of any one. And as W9BRD pointed out, they aren't a company that MAKES ink!

 

Dr. Rohde, I have fond memories of working with you on proposed changes at WOM back in the early '70s. I learned a lot in your classes in Gainesville too. 73, Frankie, W4BJT.

 

I've never talked to this gentleman but we make contact on FT8 often.

 

Maybe make R&S HX002H2 an affordable product?

 

I'm not sure what price you consider to be "affordable", but I assume that you mean "cheaper". If it was cheapened, it wouldn't be an R&S HX002H2, it would be something else resembling a less capable, lower quality product. You never get more than you pay for. Quality and performance cost money.

I want to have a $100,000 ham station, but I only want to pay $1 for it.