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Author Topic: Nat Sokal, Inventor of Class-E - SK  (Read 6459 times)
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« on: June 29, 2016, 09:38:30 AM »

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/wickedlocal-lexington/obituary.aspx?pid=179952758

Passed away May 8th.  RIP

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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2016, 10:08:36 AM »

Sorry to hear this.

He and his brother Alan provided good Class E technology for us hams and commercial folks to use. Met him once and red a couple of his papers. A short bio is here:

http://www.etsist.upm.es/uploaded/eventos/Actualidad-Prensa/sokal%20bio_2.pdf

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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2022, 06:54:59 AM »

When I worked at Analog Devices, I was dragged into a several week IEEE course that he taught in Lexington at the Raytheon facility back in 1997. Nathan Sokal went through all the classes of power amplifiers. Looking back on that and considering that I basically ignored Class D, E and Class F for 25 years, is pretty sad.
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2022, 09:31:00 PM »

I still have text in my library:

Switchmode RF Power Amplifiers
Author: Nathan O. Sokal, Andrei Grebennikov
Publish Date: June 2007
ISBN-10: 075067962X
ISBN-13: 9780750679626

Another good author on Power Amplifiers is Frederick Raab, who is an Amateur W1FR and still lives in Iowa:

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