Principal Biography

Dave's first job in broadcasting started in 1967, during his senior year in high school. He was a transmitter engineer with a 5kW AM station that was a ten minute bike ride down the road from his home. His first FM project was a college thesis aimed at getting a station for his college in 1972. The station went on the air in 1975 and is operating today.

Dave has been involved with a number of projects to create new FM stations and upgrade existing stations, and has been an owner of five stations.

In 1973, Dave proposed in a letter to the FCC that FM Class C should be broken up into C and C1, and that Class A stations should be allowed on all channels. Seven years later, that proposal was adopted, along with further subdivisions of the C and B classes. This led to hundreds of new allotments and a huge industry in upgrades for FM stations.

In 1995, he kicked off another wave of FM station upgrades by proposing to change the frequencies of two key FM stations in the Northwest, allowing one to upgrade from C3 to C1 and opening the floodgates for dozens of other station improvements.

Current projects include matching up FM Translators for AM stations, upgrading several stations, and creation of a new statewide NPR-affiliated network.

Dave has developed highly advanced software simulation tools for FM stations and unique new software to provide analysis of FM Translator move-in capabilities and AM translation potential. In addition, Dave was the architect of one of the most advanced FM allocations applications publicly available today, the FM Explorer, shown here.

Dave is an associate member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers and the Federal Communications Bar Association. He is active in FCC matters relating to engineering, deregulation, FCC database operations, and regulatory fees, and is a credentialed FCC Contractor.

As an entrepreneur and former station owner, Dave is acutely aware of the pressures, time constraints, and issues facing owners and managers.

Dave has been deeply involved in advanced technologies for decades. He and his team received an Emmy Award for developing solid-state CCD television cameras. He was involved in the development of HDTV in its early phases more than 20 years ago.

More recently, Dave has been involved with a variety of clients in emergency preparedness planning, HD Radio deployment, tower failure analysis, and centralized monitoring of multiple transmitter sites.

In addition to his broadcasting interests, Dave is a licensed pilot with instrument and multiengine ratings, and holds a high-performance aircraft endorsement.

He has written several published articles about flying and survival preparedness, with a particular emphasis on the US desert southwest.

Dave has been a pilot for Miracle Flights for Kids, a Las Vegas based volunteer organization that provides free airborne medical transportation for children whose families cannot afford it.

Dave pioneered cockpit warning and information systems in the mid 1990s that are only now coming into general use and have already saved many lives.

Dave is shown above at the controls of a Falcon 20 jet simulator.

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