[BC] AM Stereo and Leonard Kahn

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Leonard is a nice guy, and a VERY sharp guy.  He has done a lot more  
than just AM audio processing and AM Stereo.  He has designed all  
sorts of stuff for the defense industry.

A good friend of mine worked for him for years.  He hardly touched AM  
Stereo, even though he was there when the fight was going on.

That being written, he wasn't the smartest businessman when it came to  
the AM Stereo fight.  Motorola didn't want to make stereo generators.   
In fact, they promised to stop making them once there were enough  
other manufacturers.  They wanted to make the chips for the radios.

Kahn wanted to build the stereo generators, and license the chips.  He  
should have licensed the manufacturing of the chips to Motorola and  
everyone would have been happy.

--chip

On Nov 23, 2010, at 12:12 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

>Message: 18
>From: David Reaves <rrsounds at aol.com>
>
>I don't claim to understand the working of Kahn's mind (does  
>anybody?) but really, he was ready to go decades before Magnavox,  
>Belar, Harris or Motorola had even given the idea a thought.
>
>David Reaves