ABOUT ME
Hello Welcome to my little bit of "web space"
My name is Kevin and I am a telephone Junkie !
I have been involved in the telecommunications industry all my working life- joining the GPO as an apprentice at 16 then qualifying as a Strowger exchange technician 3 years later. Circumstance (the onset of System X) led to me becoming an external field engineer in the mid 80's -initially as a "SUB Apps" man on faults but over the next 20 years graduating ? onto small systems, installation/provision, jointing, cabling, pole climbing ,Special Fault Investigation, ISDN, ADSL and everything else they threw at me ! . I then spent a year and a bit in a "control" environment running a couple of projects, designed to reduce the fault rate in the copper network .
I am now "retired" from the field and work for BT as a Precision Test controller/allocator for both copper and optical fibre circuits
Boy do I miss those old days .........
At first I was a "Radio Junkie" only ,I hold an amateur radio licence and callsign and used to enjoy restoring and collecting valved Bakelite radios, upon recovering a 1950's Bakelite 300style phone one day I, thought it would look nice on the shelf adjacent to the radio collection .At about this time the late Alan Hobbs G8GOJ introduced me to the THG -the Telecommunications Heritage Group ,and the rest is history .......
I am married to the lovely Jacqueline who puts up with my "anorakness" on condition I do not complain about the amount of cats we have in the house (not necessarily real ones !)
I have an interest in all things electrical/electronic ,computers and cars , with particular emphasis on the heritage side of things .
I hope you enjoy your stay .