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Richard Fry

RF Applications Engineer (retired) at Harris Corporation
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Seasoned broadcast engineer with 19 years of experience in RF systems engineering and broadcast engineering.
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Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States, US
Skills
  • Broadcast Rf Systems Engineering
  • Mf/Vhf/Uhf Broadcast Antenna Systems
  • Broadcast
  • Analog
  • Antennas
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Richard Fry is a seasoned broadcast engineer with 19 years of experience in RF systems engineering, antenna systems, and broadcast engineering. He has worked with top companies like Harris Corporation and Radio Corporation of America (RCA Corp), and has held various roles including RF Applications Engineer, Field Supervisor, and Chief Engineer. Fry holds a Bachelor's Degree from National-Louis University.

Experience

  • Harris Corporation
    • RF Applications Engineer (retired)
      • 1980 - 1999

      Responsible for the technical interface between Harris Broadcast Division customers, their equipment field salesmen, FM antenna and r-f system component vendors and their various internal operating sectors -- and the technical oversight of bids and proposals that Harris submitted and was awarded for major domestic and international FM transmission systems.Author of numerous technical data sheets, brochures, and white papers for the analog and "HD" digital FM broadcast systems of the Harris FM Broadcast Product Line; also the author of many trade paper articles and software applications relating to FM analog/HD r-f systems.

  • Radio Corporation of America (later: RCA Corp)
    • Field Supervisor, AM/FM/TV Broadcast Service
      • 1965 - 1980

      Based in the Chicago area field office of RCA Service Company, serving the western 2/3rds of the US -- which installed new RCA broadcast equipment systems, and provided periodic and emergency service to AM/FM/TV broadcast stationsWorked with Matti Siukola of RCA - Gibbsboro to refine the RF Pulse test equipment used to measure and optimize the performance of VHF/UHF television broadcast antenna systems.

  • WJR, The Goodwill Station (Detroit)
    • Staff Engineer
      • 1964 - 1965

      When on duty was responsible for the FCC-compliant operation of a 50,000 watt, clear channel "Class A," 24/7 non-directional AM broadcast station on 760 kHz, and WJR-FM, a 50,000 watt FM station.

  • WSAM and WSAM-FM, Saginaw, MI
    • Chief Engineer
      • 1964 - 1964

      Technical responsibility for the operation of all transmission and studio equipment.

  • WKNX-TV, Saginaw, MI
    • Staff Engineer
      • 1962 - 1964

      Responsible for the technical operation of a UHF broadcast television transmitter and input equipment during duty hours.

  • KPLY (AM), Crescent City, CA
    • Chief Engineer
      • 1960 - 1960

      Chief engineer of Class IV AM broadcast station (part time while on active duty with the US Air Force maintaining electronics systems at a nearby radar station).

Education

  • National-Louis University
    Bachelor's Degree

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