I’m a small market guy, the last of a more or less extinct breed. I showed an early interest in electronics and passed the FCC first phone exam while still in high school. My buddy Dave and I bought a small FM transmitter from Lafayette Radio that we put in his attic (coverage area three blocks). Every afternoon after school we did a show. We had regular listeners. The manager of our home town station (WIZR) even gave us old news copy from the UPI machine to practice with.

When I graduated I got a job doing the evening shift on their FM. Because I had the FCC ticket I also got to be engineer. I was what was known at the time as a “combo” engineer, part engineer and part disk jockey. This I did until 1986 when the FCC eliminated the rules that required a full time staff engineer. Overnight I became a self employed contract engineer, which changed everything

Over the past forty seven years I have put dozens of new stations on the air and driven thousands of miles helping stations all over New England. I watched the last tube transmitters be replaced and got an education in dealing with the internet. Along the way I applied for and built two stations of my own. At seventy two I’m still going strong and still enjoying the challenge of keeping things on the air.