Engineer Part Time

Resume of Clinton E. Bashore

I graduated from Mt. San Antonio College(MSAC) with an associate degree in 1951. The major was science and math.

I spent the next few months as a draftsman and tool designer for Vortox Co. of Claremont Ca. Where the work was interesting and I learned a little of press die design and deep drawing sheet steel into cylinders for air filter canisters.

The Korean war was on at the time and I enlisted in the US Air Force where I spent the next four years as a RADAR and communications technician. One year of RADAR and electronics school and three maintaining RADAR, communications and electronics. While at MSAC and USAF RADAR school I took flight training and obtained a SEL pilots license. Upon discharge from the USAF in 1955 I joined North American Aircraft where I worked for a year as a Microwave technician on the development of the first monopulse RADAR system. From Sept 1956 until June 1957 I attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as an Electronic Engineering student. I then returned to NAA and worked again as a senior microwave technician. During this period I received a First Class Radiotelephone License with a RADAR endorsement and operated an aircraft radio and electronics repair shop at Fullerton Airport part time. Cal Poly established an Electronic Engineering curriculum at Pomona in 1959 and I attended there until 1961 while working part time at NAA.

I continued to work at NAA after it was taken over by Rockwell and was classified as a Senior Engineer (MTS3) when I was laid off in December 1969. During my tenure at North American Rockwell I worked on several Monopulse RADAR projects and was Responsible Engineer on the F-111 RADAR self test generator and was the microwave liaison between NAA and General Dynamics on the Microwave portion of the Enterprise Vigilante A5 and A3J RADAR. While working on the Vigilante program I designed a test set for which I received a patent for a Constant Phase Variable Microwave Generator.

I worked on the Apollo program for about a year in between the Vigilante and F-111 programs where I and two other engineers were responsible for the construction of the Apollo Command Module RF Systems Test Station. I was also responsible for the design of a switching console that permitted any of the different systems in the test station to be individually connected to any of the systems in any of three command modulus.

While working, I attend classes whenever possible. While in the USAF while stationed at Lowry Field I took courses in Calculus at U of Colorado and TV repair from RCA Institutes and during my first year at NAA took a Third Course in Calculus at Long Beach City College. After attending Cal Poly, I took a Transform Calculus Course from U of California extension. At NAA, I was able to attend two on site courses in Digital and Computer Design. Later I took two courses in Quality Control and two in Personal Computers, one class in AutoCad and one in welding at Fullerton Community College and two courses in Government Contracting at Garden Grove. Since the 1969 cutback at NAR, I have been self employed as an Electronic Consultant, Fabricator and Coordinator and have been involved in various facets of the Microwave, Communications and Circuit Board industries.

I was on call for several years by several hospitals for the maintenance of their nurse call systems and built the HDTV test station for Hughes communications and installed a channel in the Hughes Fillmore Earth Station.

In 1990, I contracted to help set up a printed circuit manufacturing plant in India, a project that took over two months.

Present activities include Industrial Maintenance and writing a book. 1 Nov 2015 Clinton E Bashore