-----Original Message-----
From: Fallon, Frank (Dir, Hudson)
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 9:04 AM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [ARRL-ODV:10130] W6QYT SK

The Sunday New York Times ran an obit on page 35 for Oswald Villard, Jr., W6QYT, who until 2001 was an ARRL member.  He passed away in a nursing home.

 

According to the piece: Dr. Villard, an electronics engineer, parlayed his youthful interest in radio into advanced research with military and other uses, including "stealth" technology to stop radar from bouncing back from aircraft, so planes are nearly invisible to it."  As a student at Stanford he was part of the team that developed the klystron and at Harvard during WWII at the Radio Research Laboratory he worked on pioneering studies of radar jamming.  He wrote over 60 technical papers and held six patents.

 

When he was twelve the family chauffeur gave him a radio put together from a kit.

 

His greatest contribution was leading research that vastly expanded the range of high frequency radar signals by bouncing them off the ionosphere.

 

Frank Fallon........  N2FF