[BC] Operators

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Powell,
Rich has (had) a First Class Commercial Radiotelephone License in the days when they were required. He also has a college degree from Emerson, well known for its broadcasting educational curricula, and has worked under both hats both in programming and in engineering. He has also worked his way up from a tiny daytime radio station at the top of the dial to stations with major market domination in the middle. I think his input, although not understood or apparently appreciated by you, is quite useful in the discussion of both radio programming and radio engineering.

The last I checked, radio and television exists because entertainers, deejays, PDs, announcers, and the lot, have produced a marketable product. Engineering is a means to an end, not the end in itself. You are simply one of the workers who helps bring this product to the consumers. Get used to it. It is certainly a decent trade, but it is becoming as obsolete as other laudable trades like typesetting and tool and die making.

Even the transmission media is becoming obsolete because powerful radio and television transmitters are going away. Even without cable or satellite conduits, soon every fixed and mobile device will have the capability of receiving whatever we have now, thousands of times over. This is all brought about by advances in wide-band spread spectrum technology that is being touted monthly in just about every IEEE publication.

When I made my first Type Accepted radio transmitter at Rich Wood's first radio station when we were both teenagers, I thought I had a job for life. I knew how to make radio broadcast transmitters. Strange things happened. Technology didn't stand still. The more I learned, the more there was to know.

Eventually I migrated to designing and writing software for a living because the old technology was obsolete and no longer marketable. Now there is something called SDR (software defined radios). This is an enabling technology that allows wide-band noise to become the conduit for not only the entertainment industry now held by radio and television, but also the information industry as well.

Get used to it. This will make lots of jobs.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Powell Way" <powell at backroads.net>

HA HA HA!  You just named yourself in this thread to a "T" Rich!  And 
twit is not the word I would use, however 2 letters in twit are just 
about correct. You have alienated quite a few engineers on the list.  I 
don't have a twit filter. I don't need one. You have made yourself look 
smaller than a grain of sand in this thread.