George Woodard - a life dedicated to shortwave radio

RadioWorld.com has published an interview with George Woodard, who has worked with shortwave radio as both a manufacturer and an engineer for RFE/RL and the IBB.

Mr Woodard started out with Continental Electronics in the early 1960s in the midst of the Cold War, when shortwave radio was on the rise as a means to provide an alternate news source for people in the closed Soviet Union.

During his years with Continental, he helped develop many of the high-power shortwave transmitters that were an important part of radio and politics in that uneasy era of simmering conflict.

Years later, in 1985, Mr Woodard left the manufacturer to become associate director for engineering for Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty and was promoted to VP of RFE/RL Engineering in 1987, just before the conclusion of the Cold War. He eventually worked his way up to director of engineering for the United States International Broadcasting Bureau.

He returned to Continental as its vice president of engineering in 2000 and retired from the company in 2003.

Read the interview

Source: Media Network