From: "Michael A. Terrell" on Thurs, Feb 23 2006 5:59 am

wrote:
From: "Michael A. Terrell" on Wed, Feb 22 2006 6:45 am
wrote:

Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.

Me too. ["R-A all the way" :-) ]

Well, I was U-S, (Drafted, for those who don't know) but I tested out
of a three year electronics school while in basic training and was
awarded the MOS for a TV Broadcast engineer. I went straight from basic
training to working in CATV, CCTV, AML type Jerrold Microwave video
links and even a little RADAR work.

Departing from the subject, those wanting to know the real HF
military communications of '53 to '60 can download:

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/Broadca...s/My3Years.pdf

or

sujan.hallikainen.org/BroadcastHistory/uploads/AlphabetSoup.pdf

Personal history, about 10 MB each so they take some time over
dial-ups.

Harold Hallikainen has a great collection of broadcasting material
of older times (under the org part of the URLs above) plus some
very comprehensive sites in his Links list. Maybe you wish to
contribute something there?