I, like many of you here, started in the 60's.. 1963 to be exact..where there were still lots of post war TV's and radio's to keep going, to the first Colour TV's.. in my case a Decca CTV28 in 1969. Domestic TV repair was in its zenith, The City and Guilds course was the E48, 5 years of day release, it was a brilliant course.. until it got "mucked about with" as it was shortened and an Electronics "off shoot" added.
I left the TV trade in 1970, to be a technician at Bradford University, in the Physics dept, looking after lab equipment and making teaching equipment for the new school of Archaeology.
7 years later I was back in the "telly" business, making TV's in Bradford for NEI....and have stayed.. more or less till my retirement 8 years ago.
So.. the best time.. for me was.. learning my trade in the 60's. In each decade though there were many interesting times...so to pick one,would be so difficult objectively.
The "kids" of today.....
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