[Elecraft] BC station inspections

[Ken G Kopp]

Local 2-way friend's shop here in Montana has several under contract.

FWIW

73

K0PP

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 13:59 John Simmons <jasimmons at pinewooddata.com> 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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