[BC] CCA and QEI

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/31/2006 10:22:54 AM Central Standard Time,  
brew at theMode.com writes:

I see  Contel is listed  on:

<http://www.transmitter.be/abbr.html>http://www.transmitter.be/abbr.html

as  a Shortwave Transmitter company.

Dave, how did Continental feel about  the Continental Electronics 
Wholesale Corporation name?

brew -  Bruce Schiller at CBS-TV NY Master Control Maintenance and  WA2ZST


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Bruce:   
 
Nice to meet you in Manchester  last year.
 
Continental watched two companies that sold transmitters in the   US.  The 
company in Miami was a small company and usually made 10 kW, plate  modulated 
rigs  built by Cubans in the Miami area and they usually went out  of the 
country.  They may have violated the trademarked  name.     
 
 
The other company was located in Atlanta owned by the Senior Eastern  
airlines pilot whose name slips my mind.   He actually sold his  warehouse to Ron 
Baker who moved CCA and CSI/Singer etc. in there.
 
He actually built 5 and 10 kW. transmitters in Atlanta using  screen grid 
modulation of 4CX5000A or 10,000 tubes in a linear mode, no  modulation 
transformer.  These transmitters were sold direct and thru Barry  Electronics, New York 
City fame.  Most of them went out of the country  but  there was a 10 kW. at 
WGUN, Atlanta and a 5 kW in Augusta, GA   and there may have been a 5 kW in 
Savannah, GA as I recall.
 
Again the decision was made based on the cost of challenging their use of a  
patented circuit vs. court costs vs.  how much actual losses had  occurred.  
There have been several other successful challenges on the  Continental 
Electronics trademarked name.
 
Happy New Year
 
Dave Hultsman