[Elecraft] OT: The Colpitts mystery

[John Simmons]

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
>
> ----- 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
>
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> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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