Bill Benedict
Bill Benedict (? – d. 2000-01-02) graduated from the University of Florida in 1969 and immediately moved to Oregon to join Tektronix as a young engineer assigned to calibrate oscilloscopes in manufacturing. He then worked as a hardware engineer in the machine control and electron microscope groups and tried his hand as a field engineer before joining the spectrum analyzer group. This became his home for the next 16 years.
On April 2nd, 2000 Bill & Jeremy Benedict went down in the factory RV-9A airplane. They did not survive.
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Documents Authored by Bill Benedict
| Document | Page | Class | Title | Author(s) | Year | Refers to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26W-5360.pdf | Application Note | Fundamentals of Spectrum Analysis | Bill Benedict | 1983 | Spectrum Analyzers |
Patents by Bill Benedict
| Page | Office | Number | Title | Inventors | Company | Filing date | Grant date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patent US 5073822A | US | 5073822A | In-service cable television measurements | Linley Gumm • Bill Benedict | Tektronix Inc | 1990-11-19 | 1991-12-17 |
Products by Bill Benedict
| Manufacturer | Model | Description | Designers | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tektronix | 7L5 | 5 MHz Spectrum Analyzer | Fendall Winston • Craig Bryant • Steve Morton • Bill Benedict • Don Kirkpatrick • Steve Skidmore • Carlos Beeck • Morris Engelson | 1976 |
| Tektronix | 492 | 21 GHz Spectrum Analyzer | Larry Lockwood • Steve Morton • Linley Gumm • Robert Alm • Bob Bales • Carlos Beeck • Bill Benedict • Craig Bryant • Russell Brown • Wes Hayward • David Leatherwood • Gordon Long • Dave Morton • Bill Peterson • David Shores • Steve Skidmore • Dennis Smith • Phil Snow • Leighton Whitset • Norman Witt | 1980 |
Components by Bill Benedict