[Elecraft] New Mystery: Copying groups vs plain language text (Rather OT)

[Phil Kane]

On 5/1/2020 11:14 AM, Dave Sublette wrote:

> February 1, 1963 I sat for my Extra with the District Engineer himself
> in the Federal Building, downtown San Francisco.  I never did know his
> name and I cannot read his signature on the certificate on the wall
> behind me. 

That was Ney R. Landry, W6UDU, later K6RI.  Ney was my first boss at the
agency, and was a real Louisiana Gentleman who went out of his way to
help people unless they tried to cross him.  The one thing that he did
not tolerate was dishonesty.  He started with the FCC after pre-WW-II
Navy service as a radioman.  He served in the FCC's Radio Intelligence
Division in San Francisco during WW-II, and then was assigned as the
Resident Engineer in San Diego until 1956 when he was reassigned to San
Francisco as the Assistant Engineer in Charge.  He became Engineer in
Charge in 1964 and was promoted as the first Regional Director in 1976.
 He retired in 1980 after 40+ years with the FCC and passed away in 2012
at the age of 95, still living with Mary in that little cottage in San
Leandro.  His outside passion was golf and he never missed a Saturday
except for the one when his son got married.  He taught me an awful lot,
for which I will always be grateful.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane