We have developed a straw tube chamber with pickup-pad readout. The mechanism
for signal pickup, the size of the pickup signal, and the distribution of
signals among neighboring pads are discussed. We have tested a prototype
chamber in a beamtest at Brookhaven National laboratory and have measured
chamber efficiencies in excess of 99%.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Talk presented at DPF '99 Meeting, UCL
