My Introduction

Hello, and thank you for visiting!

My name is Elaine
(My middle name, by the way).

My career is in the area public safety radio communications. I was the manager of the City of San Jose's Two-Way Radio Communications Program, though I am retired as of January 2006

Radio Communications became an interest area while in high school. Both of my parents were in radio communications during WWII and both were in the NAVY. I sort of grew up with a pair of headphones stuck on my head and loved shortwave listening and monitoring military communications activity on the HF frequency band, 3.0 through 30 MHz.

I self-studied and obtained a Commercial FCC RadioTelephone License in 1971.

Hobby became a career, starting in 1976 when I became a communications repair technician with a local Mororola Service Station (MSS) in San Jose, California. I've been with public safety agencies for the past 26 years.

I studied and obained an FCC amateur radio license when in high school in 1964.

My current callsign is WA6UBE.

Major Interest Areas:

• Public Safety Radio Communications
• Amateur Radio
• Military, Especially ARMY Tactical Radio Communications Equipment
• Digital Photography - Kodak Easyshare DX7590
• Film Photography - Complete set of MINOX equipment based around the
  MINOX "model B"
  

Reading:

Especially within the following Interest Areas. I have been collecting
non-fiction books based on the following subjects for the past 30 years.

This collection required a separate building to house this collection of
over 530 volumes.

• Signal Intelligence (SIGINT)
• Communications Intelligence (COMINT)
• Counter Intelligence
• The Intelligence Community
• Espionage
• Covert Operations - Including Covert Radio Communications Techniques