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Adam:For one thing, nothing in my post or Marc's was negative. I simply wanted to share a letter I had published, nothing more... nothing less. I figured people on here would like to see it especially if they don't get the magazine.Secondly, you're negative remarks and gay remarks are unwarranted and un-necessary. I won't stoop to your level and say anything about you, even though I want to.
 
Hey,It's great that younger people are getting involved in radio. There has to be people out there who will pick up on it and keep things flowing. Not every "hot" job is being a computer so-and-so!I was fortunate. I got invovled in radio in 1973 at the age of 13. My hometown had a 330 watt FM station housed at the town's high school. I passed the FCC test for my "third" (who remembers those?) just days after my 14th birthday on an adventure-filled day to New York City. Finding out there had been a stabbing in front of the FCC's building the day before (having been told as I was getting off the train at Grand Central) added to the "excitement".Besides getting on the air I was lucky enough to have a mentor who helped me embrace the technical side, which I had the knack for. Between wiring new studios, repairing both solid state and tube equipment and learning about transmission, monitoring and audio processing I was prepared for the later innings in my life. Some years later I found myself as DE for a 1000 watt AM directional and contract engineering one of the biggest 50kw FM's in the state. Not a bad outcome for the 14 year old kid, eh?These days I repair computers for educators, consult for broadcast streaming and automation clients and have a ball doing so. I do have to admit I miss that familiar smell of tubes :)
 
I'm all for young people getting a start in radio, I did and I still am a young one.however, comments like Adam made are unwarranted and un-necessary.. Don't encourage him.
 
I didn't see Adam's post and that's for the better. I did see Paul's letter in RW and his photo and I think it's really neat. Keep the excitement! I love being in radio and, like Bill, miss the smell of tubes as well as those great old Gates boards with a row of knobs and switches -- REAL control boards!Ah, memories.
 
Thomas:i had no idea they were going to use that picture. I had thought they told me the pictures were too low rez, oh well. Now y'all know what I look like.. LOL
 
"Tom" is fine; I had to change names when the board changed. I'm waiting to go back to being plain old Tom Carten, southern CT radio vet who went where the jobs were. I got a message saying I can re-register with my old name.
 
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