Hi.
Trawling around the web, during a quiet spell at work, I found the MNC website!
I was a student (sparky) there in the college's last two years (87-89), and miss the place sorely.
Well, now I work for the Radiocommunications Agency (www.radio.gov.uk) as a Propagation Engineer in the Technical Computing and Propagation Modeling Unit.
I would be very interested in keeping in touch with people who were there, and I suspect that you could set up a searchable database of some sort to which former students of MNC could submit details.
I know that, every now-and-then there is a reunion (usually in the Pier Hotel) and I have been to a couple of them, but it would be nice to be able to get contact details for people at other times.
Any idea when the next reunion is scheduled, if at all?
Just one last question...who are you? [Paul Bird = Ed.]
ttfn...and keep up the good work...
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Jason Gardner
RS3 Propagation Engineer
RA1/TCPMU
Radiocommunications Agency
+44 20 7211 0979 (office)
+44 7968 260692 (mobile)
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Email via MRGC1989
Wickham common; what can I say? Seems *so* small now! :-)
Went to Hayes Comp in 1981, left after a tedious year of sixth form intending to get qualified and go to sea.Left MNC when forced to do so by the oh-so-foresighted ILEA and went to South Tyneside to finish my HND. Just in time for a huge excess of radio officers in the merchant fleet...thanks I.M.O. for your oh-so-timely changes to requirements for merchant shipping. :-(
Worked in the family business (commercial fuel storage equipment) for 3 years, then went to work for DERA at Fort Halstead. (These two were the only jobs I have every really enjoyed.)
Three and a half years later, went to work at Radiocommunications Agency where I stayed until August this year (2001) when I went to work at the BBC Research and Development Department at Kingswood Warren, Surrey.
I've been living in (Royal!) Tunbridge Wells for the past six years with my partner.
Drop me a line if you like.
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After the RadioComms Agency I found myself at the BBC for ten years or so, working in R&D and then later "Distribution" before being made redundant, teaching maths for a few years and now I find myself at the Met Police where I have been since 2015. I spent a couple of years working in digital forensics and then wandered over to an operational unit at Newlands Park, with which I would imaging the Met students would be familiar with.
My current email address is wigglepig@gmail.com and I would welcome any and all contact from ex-MNC people to help drag me out of this funk! I would also be up for a beer or three when this COVID menace finally subsides!