Like Dallin, I also graduated from BYU, but in electrical engineering. I know how challenging that radio theory test is because I passed the same license test while in high school at age 17. That is quite an accomplishment for a young high school kid. If he was born in August 1932 and got his First Ticket in the spring of 1948, that means he was 15 years old at the time. He had obtained his first-class radio operator license in the spring of 1948." "He later worked as an engineer and announcer for stations in both Vernal (KJAM) and Provo (KCSU). The wikipedia article about Oaks verifies his FCC license: Even though a FCC license was required for the job, it still paid only minimum wage of $1.85 an hour back then ('72). Rogers Neighborhood, Electric Company, etc. We used 2-inch wide Ampex VTRs to playback Sesame Street, Mr. My license qualified me for a job at KBYU-TV doing on-air program playback and switching, and monitoring transmitter logs. I think Dallin worked in radio for a while when he was young, as did I. Both of us had passed the FCC test for a First Class Radiotelephone License required to be a chief engineer of a broadcast radio or TV station. Hoax was president of BYU when I attended.
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