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"Doug" wrote:

I have no recall of SEA being in the ACSSB push, but know for a fact
IIMorrow was, and ran employment ads every few months in the Portland
"Oregonian" for ACSSB engineers and technicians until shortly after UPS
acquired them. I know, as I submitted my resume in the late 80s. Perhaps
Bruce can address SEA involvement. I seem to recall IIMorrow was a
petitioner to the FCC for the 220 MHz frequency allocation which claimed it
was an unused amateur band in the Oregon area. In their area, back in the
50s and possibly even early 60s, 220 MHZ was unuseable due to military
preemptive use for the old old Nike missile system used to defend
metropolitan areas. The long since closed Camp Adair SAGE site and Mt Hebo
radar site were part of that system in the area.

73
Doug, K7ABX

SEA was one of the two ASSB OEM's that via'd for the 220Mhz band. Dick
Stephens spent the better part of his final days trying to make ASSB
actually work without DSP support. He never got it into Prime Time.Once
DSP Chipsets were available, it became much easier to do and SEA built
and marketed a complete line of ASSB HT's, Mobiles, and Repeaters for
the 220Mhz band. It never really took off, and ultimatly sunk the
company. The Marine Division always made money, but the money and
resources that the ASSB Division sucked out of the bottom line was more
than the company could stand and they went bust. SEA is just now coming
back with a limited production of 325's and 157's and a Service Dept,
under Phil Manard. I talked to him last fall and he was hopefull that
they could continue on.

Bruce in alaska
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