I began my radio career in 1969 when I walked into my local radio station to see a friend and walked out with a job as chief engineer and the six to midnight shift. I also got to hang my newly minted first phone license on the wall. Oh, and the princely sum I was going to get paid was $7.50 an hour. There was a 1KW AM daytimer and a simulcast FM. My job was a program called Album Party. I put one side of an album on and let it track. When it finished I flipped it over and played the other side. When there were Mets baseball games I got to run those too. I was what was known at the time as a “combo” engineer, which was how most small stations managed to comply with the FCC regulations that required an on staff engineer.