Leonard R. Kahn

Leonard R. Kahn ( born June 16, 1926 in New York City; † 3 June 2012 at the South Florida ) was an American electrical engineer.

Life

After Kahn had acquired at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now part of New York University) his Bachelor, he worked long at the RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, where he received over 100 patents for AM stereo broadcasting. While the medium wave broadcasting is considered obsolete in Europe and is therefore disappearing, Kahn found in the United States use forms in which the known defects of the central shaft play a decisive role. In the U.S., therefore, has the medium wave broadcast - there called AM Radio - even today significant role.

He was founder and president of Kahn Communications in Carle Place (New York), the CAM -D ( Compatible amplitude modulation - Digital) developed. In 1958 he developed his digital stereo radio system Kahn- Hazeltine. During this time he also developed Symmetra peak, which competed with the main auditorium of CBS Laboratories Volumax and.

Kahn was also one of the world's most famous amateur radio personalities. His call sign was WB2SSP.

In the late 1980s he was increasingly in patent litigation, including with Motorola (due to C- QUAM ) and General Motors.

Publications

• Single - Sideband Transmission by Envelope Elimination and Restoration. In: Proceedings of the IRE. Vol 40, No. 7, 1952, pp. 803-806, doi: 10.1109/JRPROC.1952.273844 (PDF, accessed on February 6, 2013).
• Pro Se, A Fool For a Client: The True Story You Will Never Believe. CreateSpace, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4499-0137-0 ( autobiography ).