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[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Kahn is a genius and a great American who started to "think out of the box" long before it became fashionable.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1449901379/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
He is currently trying to help fix the government and in so doing encounters great problems with the revisionists who have proved that if you repeat a lie long enough it is taken for the truth.

In the days when most everyone was trying to make AC-Coupled systems (transmitters) function like DC coupled ones with increasing levels of "positive" modulation without suffering the consequences of the resulting "negative" modulation as physics took over, Leonard devised a passive phase-scrambler, the Semitra-Peak, that made high modulation levels possible without clipping or otherwise distorting the signal. He was WAY ahead of his time.

In the days when stereo radio involved putting your FM radio on the right and the AM radio on the left, Kahn devised a method of putting each channel on each AM sideband, which previously was containing redundant information anyway. It did not get approved although there were some very successful experimental sites operating.

He was so far ahead of his time that I fear fifty years from now he will be considered one of America's technological heroes. Unfortunately, he will not be around to reap the benefits of his accomplishments.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Reaves" <rrsounds at aol.com>
Cc: "David Reaves" <rrsounds at aol.com>

Dana,
A lot of people think that Kahn introduced his AM stereo system at the same time as his competitors, in 1980. If I recall correctly, AM stereo was developed and successfully demonstrated by Kahn roughly concurrently with FM stereo (circa 1960), but the FCC decided to only approve FM stereo in order to promote FM listenership, which at that time was a very small fraction of AM's. So yes, AM stereo was adopted MUCH too late to have much value, but don't blame Kahn. And I think it's fair to say that Kahn's earlier rejection by the FCC set the stage for his petulant yet somewhat understandable response when they once again rejected his system 20 years later.