[BC] Re: Life at the transmitter shack

[Kirk Harnack]

Barry Mishkind wrote:
> This is especially for those of you who have lived at transmitter sites.
>
> An email from someone not too long ago recounted a conversation he had 
> with Parker Gates. The question came up about the children of radio 
> engineers who lived at the transmitter site. I'll quote the gentleman:
>
> - - Quote --
>
> I made mention to Parker that his grand children appeared to be all 
> girls, and I said something to the effect that it was caused by all of 
> the RF he used to work around. He chuckled, but told me a story about
> that very fact. I certainly don't remember his exact words, but he did 
> say that people who work around broadcast sites have a higher 
> percentage of girls, especially if they were live-in engineers. He 
> explained to me that in the early days of radio broadcasting, it 
> wasn't uncommon to have an engineer who actually had his home at the 
> broadcast transmitter site. He stated they almost never have boys, a 
> statement which has stuck with me all these years.
>

Seems a study was done in Kentucky a few decades back.  Kentucky 
Educational Television, KET, had a dozen or so manned UHF transmitter 
sites.  I heard that about 90% of the engineers' offspring were female.

Myself?  Three (biological) daughters.

Kirk