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My Story - Tim Bacchus
Last Updated on 7/25/00
| In 1965--boy was that a long
time ago, while a sophomore at Catalina High, the Disney Land School,
I filled my Disk Jockey interests and got my first Commercial Radio
Job with Radio station KAIR owned by my brother's friend Frank Kalil.
I worked four three hours from midnight until 3:00 a.m. and then go
home a do my homework, yeah right. After about six months I joined KIKX
Radio as Jefferson K, cute name. Then for a while had a three hour show
on KTKT Color channel 99, as Just "n" Right. I then became a news man
for CBS outlet and chief engineer of Tucson's first radio station that
was in the back of channel 13 TV's lot KOPO. In 1974 after attending a little of the University of Arizona, Northern University and a year at Princeton learning to be a Methodist Preacher I decided to go into the Railroad business just as my father and three generations before him did. I love the broadcasting business but I sure do not have the looks for being on TV and other than that I just could not afford to live after I had to get a loan just to pay the utility bills.... Being a Minister did not work out, I have a bad temper and live for revenge. But being a Railroader worked out pretty well. I have been the head of our Union for four years and get to travel a lot and meet with influential people in Washington and do many things that I thought that I never would be able to do. I have been a pilot since 1974 and own a nice little Cessna 150 plane that I just got done having a well deserved painting. I have a wonderful wife and no kids because we thought that we could not afford them but who can? We have many spoiled nieces and nephews and that is fun because when they start to act up we give them back to the parents. I now have a nice big office and work with a bunch of great professionals in repairing Railroad Freight cars and trying to keep the trains on the rails. Have been an amateur Radio Ham, since 65 and still find a little time to get on and talk with people all over the world. Sure do love the world wide web too for work and play. The wife and I get to travel a lot and often and we truly are having a wonderful time. We really know that this life is not a dress rehearsal. About five years ago luck hit me and I was able to buy stock in a new adventure called Sigtronics incorporated. Sigtronics owned two of the then fairly new cell phone towers in northern Arizona and had just bought a third one in New Mexico and were about to go bank bankrupt. Luckily I and the three other owners now own and operate Sigtronics incorporated serving AT and T and Contel. We have transmitter and towers in 17 western states and it provides a nice income from the phone companies, so when you are up in the White Mountains please talk for a long time on the cell phone we thank you...Have a nice Summer Home in Pinetop and no phones there, nice a quiet. Enough boredom for now. |
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| Tim Bacchus Class of 68 TimBacchus@aol.com |
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