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As the aforesaid 'oppo' I would heartily concur with Alan. Gerald was a 
great mentor, super meal companion and wonderful raconteur. Also worth 
noting could be his unflinching support for Amateur Radio at the high 
tables of the commercial radiocommunications industry. That extended to 
the high tables of the EU.

73 de pat g4gvw

On 11/04/16 23:07, Alan Melia wrote:
> Hi Paul I came across Gerald in the 90s when I was part of a 2-way 
> radio company, my oppo knew Gerald quite well from the FCS. He was a 
> nice guy. One of my local LFers worked for him as well. I have one of 
> his Guiness barrell cavities in my workshop. They are very good. The 
> story was he insisted on silver-plated Guiness kegs as they were the 
> best quality material and casting.
>
> Alan
> G3NYK
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Nicholson" <vlf0403@abelian.org>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: LF: Re: Screening an LF Loading Coil
>
>
>>
>> Takes me back to the 1970's when I was a student working for
>> Gerald David at Aerial Facilities in Chesham building these
>> things -
>>
>>  http://www.ingenia.org.uk/Ingenia/Articles/240
>>
>> which worked incredibly well thanks to the ingenuity of some
>> people at Bradford Uni who designed the adjustable center
>> conductor of the cavity so that the overall temperature
>> coefficient of the 'barrel' as we called the cavities, was close
>> to zero.   Bandwidths of a few kHz at VHF with insertion loss
>> of less than 1dB were normal.
>>
>> Gerald was a wonderful larger than life character, I could
>> relate many stories about life at AFL in those days - not
>> least Gerald's specialised driving techniques applied to the
>> country lanes of Buckinghamshire.  There were many jokes about
>> ensuring the barrels were empty and Friday lunchtimes at the
>> pub were generally devoted to that.
>>
>> -- 
>> Paul Nicholson
>> -- 
>>
>
>

-- 
73 de Pat G4GVW
QTH Nr. FELIXSTOWE
EAST COAST UK