why have an engineer on staff ???    just shop a few services out for the best price.

When I got my First Phone I thought I could find great job security .... but I twisted from broadcasting to sales....on the way home from my first interview with WAAF/WGRT I took a job in the audio industry...a career that lasted 40+ years.

and when they wanted my P1 ticket to give me GROL I took a pass, as I was NOT going to give that up.

bill


On 4/30/2020 3:58 PM, John Simmons wrote:
Jim,

All the broadcast inspections are now contracted out to private companies.

73,
-de John NI0K

Jim Cassidy wrote on 4/30/2020 1:47 PM:
I did all the FCC required licenses at Portland FCC.  General class while in High School, all commercial licenses including 3rd class radiotelegraph and Amateur Extra around early 1960s.  And with a 10 year broadcasting career usually yearly visits from McCann or another FCC engineer Burson at the broadcast station inspections.

73 KI7Y

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From: "Phil Kane" <[email protected]>
To: "Elecraft" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 7:32:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: The Colpitts mystery

On 4/29/2020 5:52 PM, Macy monkeys wrote:

I took my General at the FCC office downtown Portland in the late
60s. The examiner was a tough and gruff staffer named Francis McCann.
IMHO, he was extra tough on 14 year olds, hi. You know my heart was
racing when that series of V's came through those headphones!
Frank McCann was one of the old timers when I joined the agency in 1967.
  By that time he was the Engineer in Charge of the Portland Office but
the EIC did a lot of the journeyman jobs in those smaller offices.  When
he retired in the late 1970s (or was it the early 1980s) I applied for
his job but they had to give it to someone else whose office was being
closed and I continued at the San Francisco Office until I retired in
1995.  I have no idea what happened to him after that.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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