{"id":7261,"date":"2008-09-27T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/rudy-severns\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:38:15","slug":"rudy-severns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/rudy-severns\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Severns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgl0z8PlvqnVD4N9b9eP-ldrF6Fks2ALVTKEp5ldRXeTUj8CUph27PmZJvHsdI4i7ENk7N99XfHoOPtjK4BR6WGAtSHke-bxCE1mSXJ5ZKV9Hl4H1mPMkyOKM1bkj1U_gxKb_I4X3tGokY\/s1600-h\/809-rudy-severns01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/809-rudy-severns01.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250561267249443090\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span class=\"deck\">Allan, WA9IRS, sent me the link to a really interesting article about guy who is obviously one of us, a victim of The Knack. Here is how the article begins:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"deck\">An innovator in power-supply design who anticipated the trend toward higher frequency switching, an illuminator of power-supply topologies, and one who introduced many engineers to the promise and perils of power MOSFETs, Rudy Severns has made diverse contributions to the power electronics field in a career spanning five decades as an engineer, author, instructor and consultant.<\/p>\n<p>On the 50th anniversary of his first jump from a biplane, Rudy Severns went skydiving yet again, pushing his lifetime total to somewhere in the vicinity of 500 jumps. Throughout his career, he took breaks for months-long sailing voyages, which usually necessitated a job change on his return. When it was time to fulfill his military obligation, a young Severns parlayed his experience as a radio operator into a stint with the Army&#8217;s Special Forces, where he learned the skills of unconventional warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/powerelectronics.com\/power_systems\/rudy_severns_lifetime_achievement_award-809\/index.html\">Rudy Severns<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allan, WA9IRS, sent me the link to a really interesting article about guy who is obviously one of us, a victim of The Knack. Here is how the article begins: An innovator in power-supply design who anticipated the trend toward higher frequency switching, an illuminator of power-supply topologies, and one who introduced many engineers to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/rudy-severns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rudy Severns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rudy-severns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}