[Elecraft] OT: The Colpitts mystery

[Jim Cassidy]

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Kane" <k2asp at kanafi.org>
To: "Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
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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