[Elecraft] OT: The Colpitts mystery

[Bill Steffey NY9H]

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
>>
>> ----- 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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