Radio Technical Officers
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Early Years
Chapter 2: The Training School
Chapter 3: Equipment Installation Records
Chapter 4: The 'Techs' in Antarctica
Chapter 5: The 'Techs' Tell Their Stories
Appendix 1: 'Techs' Roll Call
Appendix 2: Trainee Intakes
Appendix 3: 'Techs' Who Have Served in the Antarctic Region
Appendix 4: Summary of Major Installation Projects
Appendix 5: Summary of Major Equipment Variously Installed at Sites and Maintained by Radio Technical Officers
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In concluding this chapter mention must be made of the early 'techs' who provided the foundation for the highly sophisticated technical network and knowhow that has developed over the years.
Reg Stout has mentioned Tom Sleath and Roger Catchpole, but there were others whose names have drifted down through the years and are legends in their own right . . . Dick Cohen, Neville Franks, Neville McLeod and others who were on the first Radio Mechanic's course in 1948, Stan Gericke, John (Mac) MacDermott, Ralph Bulloch, John Ellis (later an Engineer) and Jack Martin who were graduates of the 1954 course, and Merv German and Stan (Horse) Dawson. A little later on the scene came Reg Goldsworthy, Bob Hope, the irrepressible Bruce Aubrey (Straub), Lance Conlon, Charlie Holman (who became RMO (Western Australia), a position which he held for many years); also about this time, 1956, more colourful characters arrived to grace the meteorological circles in the form of Peter Broughton (later RMO (Victoria-Tasmania)) and Ray Missen (who later had a busy career in Head Office).
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