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The Skywire Audio Designer

Don Palmer

Owner of Highwire Audio. Designed and manufactured high end audio cables and Powerwraps incorporating noise suppression for cables and power cords.

Worked 34 years as an electro-mechanical design engineer on a wide variety of analog, digital, and Radio Frequency (RF) electronics products, including:

  • Digital pulse dialing mobile telephone system for Bell Labs
  • Electro-mechanical pulse decoders and relay control circuits
  • Vacuum tube regulated, 5 to 16 KVolt Traveling Wave Tube Amps
  • High voltage modulators with up to 4000 Volt/microsecond rise time
  • Low noise 150 MHz to 19 GHz Satellite receivers for Ford Aerospace

Lead Engineer at Ford Aerospace for the mechanical design of the RF Communications equipment on the Intelsat V Satellites. The system includes 25 receivers at 4 and 14 Ghz, 10 transmitters at 6 and 11 Ghz and has a capacity of 30,000 telephone channels. 13 satellites on orbit.

Staff Engineer at the University of California at Berkeley, College of Engineering. Responsible for non-academic staff and research facilities for the Acoustics, Analog Computer, Machining, Welding, Air Bearings, Dynamics, Impact, Servomechanisms, and Design Laboratories.

Chief Mechanical Engineer at FAM Engineering Inc., manufacturer of high power microwave amplifier systems. Mechanical design of 5 to 16 kilovolt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers and high voltage modulators with up to 4000 Volt/microsecond rise time.

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1956

First high end system in 1949 included a Rek-o-Kut turntable, ESL arm and moving coil cartridge, Pederson tube pre-amp, Fisher 50 watt Class "A" tube amp, and an Altec Lansing 604C speaker. (At its peak in stereo, the system had 52 vacuum tubes)

22 years of developing and refining a revolutionary design of High Fidelity audio interconnect and speaker cables. Have six patents granted in the high fidelity audio field.

United States Patents:

  • No. 4,885,555 INTERCONNECTION FOR HIGH FIDELITY SIGNALS
  • No. 4,939,315 SHIELDED AUDIO CABLE FOR HIGH FIDELITY SIGNALS
  • No. 4,945,189 ASYMMETRIC AUDIO CABLE FOR HIGH FIDELITY SIGNALS
  • No. 5,064,966 MULTIPLE SEGMENT AUDIO CABLE FOR HIGH FIDELITY SIGNALS
  • No. 5,222,149 DAMPING TERMINATOR FOR HIGH FIDELITY SIGNALS
  • No. 5,548,082 PASSIVE SIGNAL SHIELDING STRUCTURE FOR SHORT WIRE CABLE