Not really, just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. I
graduated in 1967 and due to the fact that I had several years of
VHF/UHF/radar experience with the airlines, I got my pick of half a dozen
RF/microwave companies in San Diego. Ryan promised me a microwave job in
the Apollo lab and I jumped at it. A few years later I found out that
Conic was making this experimental TV transmitter for Apollo 15 and I jumped
at that. Shortly thereafter I started RST and dropped out of the aerospace
ratrace.

I guess I was 25 when Apollo 11 landed...I remember that the flying club had
scheduled a lunch on Catalina Island that day and I knew I had to be home by
early afternoon to hear the touchdown...as I vaguely recall, they touched
down around 5 pm PDT. Did I get that right?

Jim



You must be older than dirt! I was an eleven year old, that spent
countless
hours sitting in a tree, with a model lander on a long kite string, doing
my
own lunar landings. g