[BC] radio engineering not a profession

[Harold Hallikainen]

Here's something I wrote for the NAB Guide to Unattended Transmitters
regarding the licensing of radio station operators:
http://sujan.hallikainen.org/nab/unattended/RegHistory.pdf

I especially like this:

"... the argument of Representative Griflin of New York against the
licensing of radio operators in the Radio Act of 1927 [67 Cong.Rec. 5573
(1926)]. Why should an operator be required to procure a license? We have
locomotive engineers running great trains all over the country;
trackwalkers, signalmen, and other employees engaged in great
undertakings, where human lif is at stake and where there is great
responsibility, who are not required to submit to this license nuisance. I
ask the gentleman proposing this bill: ‘What is the earthly reason for
requiring the licensing of an operator at a broadcasting station ’ Do you
not suppose that the employer of that operator knows whether he is
efficient or not? Is it not his duty and his obligation to look after the
character of the men he employs and whether or not they are efficient? Why
should the United States
Government assume this responsibility and undertake to establish a bureau,
with numerous clerks, filing cases, and an elaborate mechanism, in order
to provide help for the operating stations all over the United States? The
next logical thing in order, with this precedent established, will be to
require Federal licenses for telephone and telegraph operators. It would
surely be just as reasonable. This whole section and all of these
paragraphs ought to be eliminated from the bill. Let the people who
control the stations select their own operators and use their own
judgment."



Harold

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