Its been about 2 years Id guess since he emailed me a comment or wise crack
about something on Amps! I loved his humor. That and the fact he was retired
when he went to Svetlana, he just hated to be idle.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lyles" <jtml@losalamos.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:13 PM
Subject: [Amps] George Badger, W6TC
> George was a FB OM. He and I worked together as supplier and customer over
> the years also. When the new 4CX3500A came out, he convinced me to make
> the first non-Eimac VHF cavity amplifier of this tube. which was a
> commercial success. I have many old letters from him in my Eimac folder.
> He was a background reader of this forum, occasionally would say something
> here or send email to some of us here. He will be missed, and we have one
> less high power tube man on the planet.
> John
> K5PRO
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:42:39 -0500
>> From: "Carl" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Amps] George Badger, W6TC
>> To: "Ian White GM3SEK" <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>, <amps@contesting.com>
>
>> I was just reading a 1961 QST that described Eimacs end of the first ham
>> EME
>> 2 way and George was part of that team. I was wondering if he was still
>> around.
>>
>> In later years I talked to him many times at Svetlana working up correct
>> specs for some tubes and building 4CX400A conversions for a few ham and
>> commercial 8122 amps and the MLA-2500. He was always a joy to work with.
>>
>> Carl
>> KM1H
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ian White GM3SEK" <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>
>> To: <amps@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:13 PM
>> Subject: [Amps] George Badger, W6TC
>
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