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Personality of the Month, Al Petrasek

Artifact Details

Category

Model / Type / Function

Collins Part Number

Year

September 1955 issue of Collins Column

Location

Collins Aerospace Museum

Donor

Usage

Historical Significance

Additional Information

AL PETRASEK, TD Sales Engineer, was the Collins man who quarterbacked the recent near million-dollar microwave contract with the Continental Pipeline Company and the Sinclair Pipeline Company.
The negotiations, of course, involved the inter-departmental team work of many persons in both sales and engineering. An elaborate proposal in two volumes describing the complete system listed each individual station and carried detailed cost data. Continental and Sinclair officials said the proposal was one of the best ever presented to them.
Al came to Collins last August. He worked with International GE, New York City, for a five-year period and with the government division of GE, Syracuse, N. Y., for two years. Before that, he was employed by the Carrier Corporation, Syracuse, for 10 years.
He has been an Amateur radio operator since 1932 and has had some exciting Amateur radio experiences, and not the least among them is the time in 1936 when he served as the only outside contact during the Johnstown flood. He worked three days and nights with his radio equipment directing disaster traffic and serving as net control for the Radio Army Amateur System.
Al, a senior member of IRE, resides in Irving, Texas, with his wife and son.
He was born in Newark, N. J., and attended college in Roselle, N. J. He served as a communication officer in the Army for a four-year period.