[Bob Seger]

[quote=vundy33]I would rather do ANY Army related activity than to climb that freakin' ladder...I'm alot more used to it now, but it scares the crap out of me, haha.

What kind of job did you have Bob that got you that experience??[/QUOTE]

Actually Vundy I have a lot of experience in telecommunications in just about all aspects of it. Not so much in wireless however. Everything is pretty much hard wired with my resume. I have a lot of TV cable experience from building the tower. to running the cable, to balancing the boosters, to running the drop. My main experience however comes from working for Ma Bell. I did everything from working in the CO to maintaining/splicing cables to installing residential phones to installing complex PBX systems in very large commercial applications from here all the way to Texas. You're way to young to remember when the word Ma Bell was the only name there was when the thought of telecommunications came up. In fact, you as well as most of the posters on here probably dont even have the first clue as to what I'm even talking about. "Ma Bell" was the nickname of the monopoly that was under the control of AT&T. There were several "Baby Bells" that were under that umbrella. AT&T is nowhere near the same company then as what it is now. It was at the time of my employment the largest corporation in the world...period. A total communications monopoly, ........world wide. There were probably 12-15 Baby Bells (South Central Bell, Southwestern Bell, Ohio Bell, Pacific Bell, Cincinnati Bell, etc., etc., etc.) along with Bell Labratories and Western Electric. Bell Labs was responsible for R&D while Western Electric was the manufacturing arm of AT&T. We were dismanted and broken up by the federal government in 1981-82. Again this was just before the development of the huge wireless boom. We were just at that time transferring from analog/pulse to digital. I was involved in the early stages of that transformation. Cellular was in it's very infancy.