[BC] Life at the transmitter shack

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

The operators at the ETV UHF and FM site on Parris Mountain had to take 
vacations to have any children all, but some of them will have to furnish 
any further details..........
M
----- Original Message ----- > 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.