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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote:


RF indicators: Yes, we've put on a few Radio Shack SWR bridges as well
as some Vanco's, which came in a handy vertical case configuration. I've got
a Vanco in my 10 meter coax now.... it was put there to tune my attic
dipole. (before I got my snazzy MFJ-259)
I've never done this newly authorized contract SOLAS inspection by
myself. When I was still in the business, the FCC's field engineer did the
inspecting, and I was hired to tag along and keep discrepancies from
becoming open warfare. Of course if I was the regular servicing tech, there
weren't and discrepancies. Yoou Betcha! Wasn't Zinns, or something like
that, the nice guy that liked to go to a nice place for lunch and tell
inspection humor stories? He was my favorite inspector.
Old Chief Lynn


Bob Zinns was one of the best FCC Engineers that worked out of the
Seattle Field Office. I think that Pete Baliogenn, was before your time,
but he was the "*******" that always found something to RDI (Repaired
during Inspection) during any inspection. He carried a Black Book, that
we all called, the "Baliogenn Bible", that had all the non-Rule Rules in
it, and he could ALWAYS find something to bitch about. I figured out,
early on, that if Pete was coming to do an Inspection, that I needed to
leave at least one "Glaring" ommission for him to find, that was easy to
fix on the spot, and after he found it, and I fixed it, he would be alot
more reasonable about the rest of the stuff. Years later, when I joined
the FCC, as a Resident Field Agent, I did my initial training with the
Seattle Field Office, and had Gary Solsby as my Training Officer. I
still drop in on those guys, and gals when I get down that way.

Bruce in alaska
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