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

[Glen Kippel]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> I would love to have been a part of early radio. I spent time in my local
> library as a kid reading about radio and how early programming was produced.
> It caused me to be a pain in the butt (a charming quality that's continued)
> to get me my first radio job at 13 years old.
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I once met a man who had worked for Lee deForest.  He told me, "Lee would
come up with all those crazy ideas and leave it for us engineers to figure
out how to make them work."  Now THAT is really pioneering radio!