Re: DAVE PACK (SWT - GUILDFORD DETACHMENT)
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:02 am
I have just revisited the DTels website after some time therefore only just seen that David Pack has sadly passed.
I was one of his Team from 1980 to 1985 initially as a Wireless Mechanic and then Wireless Technician. Steve Melling was one of the WT’s when I joined. David gave me my first start in the radio business and was probably the single most important influencer in my career providing every support and opportunity he could both to me and to the other youngsters (I was 19) at Guildford. He also encouraged me to get my Amateur Licence and supported my gaining professional technical qualifications. That is something I will always be incredibly grateful to him for.
I left Guildford in 1985 to join the then fledgling Radio Investigation Service and took the lessons learned from my time at Guildford with me. I eventually ended up as as an RWE equivalent with the Radiocommunications Agency at Baldock before moving into the IT industry for 9 years when Ofcom ‘released’ myself and hundreds of my colleagues.
Today I am once again back in the Civil Service but now as a Programme Manager developing highly innovative and cutting edge technical hardware & software solutions for radio communications systems deployed by various Agencies. I have no doubt that without that start Dave Pack offered me at Guildford almost 40 years ago, I would not be doing what I now do. I also like to think that he might be quietly pleased at how well one of his team has done. Sadly I never got to tell him.
Thank you David.
I was one of his Team from 1980 to 1985 initially as a Wireless Mechanic and then Wireless Technician. Steve Melling was one of the WT’s when I joined. David gave me my first start in the radio business and was probably the single most important influencer in my career providing every support and opportunity he could both to me and to the other youngsters (I was 19) at Guildford. He also encouraged me to get my Amateur Licence and supported my gaining professional technical qualifications. That is something I will always be incredibly grateful to him for.
I left Guildford in 1985 to join the then fledgling Radio Investigation Service and took the lessons learned from my time at Guildford with me. I eventually ended up as as an RWE equivalent with the Radiocommunications Agency at Baldock before moving into the IT industry for 9 years when Ofcom ‘released’ myself and hundreds of my colleagues.
Today I am once again back in the Civil Service but now as a Programme Manager developing highly innovative and cutting edge technical hardware & software solutions for radio communications systems deployed by various Agencies. I have no doubt that without that start Dave Pack offered me at Guildford almost 40 years ago, I would not be doing what I now do. I also like to think that he might be quietly pleased at how well one of his team has done. Sadly I never got to tell him.
Thank you David.