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

[Ronald J. Dot'o Sr.]

>
> 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


I had the honor and good fortune to work with a true Broadcast 
Pioneer, Cal Applegate, who started at Warner Bros. KFWB in 1926 after 
he was discharged from the Army Air Service.  The stories he could 
tell about the early days!  I wish I could have gotten them down on 
tape.  He was loaned out to the movie lot from the radio station to do 
the sound tracks on their early talkies.  I have pictures of him with 
the original Rin Tin Tin and the rest of the movie crew as well as 
pics of him with his fellow engineers at the station.  During WW II he 
worked for the War Information Office installing broadcast stations in 
Alaska as a warning system for attacks.  He taught me how to read a 
tower with an RF bridge.  I sure miss him.  He will be gone 20 years 
this August.

Ron D