[BC] Radio engineering not a profession - 50 kW Vs. 2 Watts

[nakayle at gmail.com]

Rich, I'm sorry you've never had good experience with radio station 
managers. I worked for three different stations between '62-'86 and I 
always had very good relations with my managers. They routinely 
sought and valued my advice and always took seriously any issues I 
brought to them.

I've been out of broadcasting many years now, but from all I read and 
hear it would be very different today- I would just be a appliance repairman.

You may knock the first class ticket, but I think it did add respect 
to the profession and the much more stringent requirements the FCC 
had on station operations- numerous logs, inspections, proofs, etc 
made engineers much more essential and important to a station than today.

I sometimes regretted not being born earlier so I could have been a 
part of the real pioneering days of radio, but at least my time in it 
was a whole lot better than now. Why anyone would want to be a radio 
"engineer" today I don't know.

  - Nat


On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Rich Wood 
<<mailto:richwood at pobox.com>richwood at pobox.com> wrote:

You must be in a different industry than I am. I've been doing this 
for a very long time and always heard engineers complain about 
management not respecting them. I don't think the piece of paper made 
a bit of difference. If you find a station operating illegally and 
there's no money to fix it properly, how did that piece of paper make 
it possible? I also question how many of those blue pieces of paper 
were "hard earned" when there were so many 90 day wonders cranked out 
by correspondence schools.