Geoffrey Pike

Fair comment about the past being best forgotten, i still have my ED 3 channel valve floor standing Tx. This and a RCM&E Tinytone and clockwork escapments  guided many of my Black Magic, Junior/Super Sixties around the skies in the 60s with panic. So i agree with you about shivers down the spine. However history is important and alot of it has not been captured on the web so that others can appreciate the huge technological leaps that have been made which allows us to control our models rather than influence them. Oh and BTW my ED produces 1/2 watt on 27 MHz, 1/4 watt on 54 MHz  and so on. My first transistorised RCM&E Tx produced 25 mW and with the PA removed 35mW !!!. Any wonder they got such bad press as people migrated from valve to transistorised Txs in the 60s, Windy Kruelin rings a bell. regards Geoff OH Dave McQue did wonderful things with the  technology available in the 50s and 60s

Yeah indeed and as you say there are proably more, see yahoo goups for "home brew radio control". Geoff More likey to be on 10.368GHz than 80M !

Ah yet again my name sake arises, unfortunately i'am not the Geoff Pike you refer to alas. I would love to be able to write about Dave, i tried to get Terry Tippett (Micron)to get in contact with him so as to get Dave himself to write about his early exploits. I think this would be best suited to someone who actually was a friend of his. I suppose we really need some appreciation of what was done with valves and later semiconductors in the early 50s and 60s.Only because we take for granted the latest 2.4 GHz stuff.So i think RCM&E needs a wee article about the history and development of RC in the UK, regards Geoff Pike GI0GDP oh yeah and long live GG  

When Dave McQue passed away recently did the RCM&E do much or any of an obituary to this RC pioneer? regards GeoffEdited By Geoffrey Pike on 23/01/2010 20:46:59