On 5/1/2020 11:14 AM, Dave Sublette wrote: > February 1, 1963 I sat for my Extra with the District Engineer himself > in the Federal Building, downtown San Francisco. I never did know his > name and I cannot read his signature on the certificate on the wall > behind me.
That was Ney R. Landry, W6UDU, later K6RI. Ney was my first boss at the agency, and was a real Louisiana Gentleman who went out of his way to help people unless they tried to cross him. The one thing that he did not tolerate was dishonesty. He started with the FCC after pre-WW-II Navy service as a radioman. He served in the FCC's Radio Intelligence Division in San Francisco during WW-II, and then was assigned as the Resident Engineer in San Diego until 1956 when he was reassigned to San Francisco as the Assistant Engineer in Charge. He became Engineer in Charge in 1964 and was promoted as the first Regional Director in 1976. He retired in 1980 after 40+ years with the FCC and passed away in 2012 at the age of 95, still living with Mary in that little cottage in San Leandro. His outside passion was golf and he never missed a Saturday except for the one when his son got married. He taught me an awful lot, for which I will always be grateful. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
