Qualifications of Butch McBride       Butch McBride has over thirty years of broadcast and wireless engineering experience. For many years he worked overseas where he was responsible for the construction, operation, and maintenance of two high power shortwave broadcast facilities. Additionally, he worked as Chief Engineer for other broadcast facilities, including AM, FM and TV. He also has extensive knowledge on the operation and maintenance of AM directional broadcast stations, including field strength measurements.  He has been certified a Professional Broadcast Engineer by the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He has filed numerous applications with the Federal Communications Commission for a number of new and modified broadcast facilities; thus, his qualifications are a matter of record with the FCC. For the past four years he has been exclusively involved in the consulting of Wireless Carriers and Tower Owners on the regulatory issues of AM Coordination. Two of the past four years was with an Arlington, Virginia, based consulting firm, and the last two years as the Principal of his own firm. During this four-year period he has coordinated over 100 sites, including sites for American Tower, AAT Communications, ATT Wireless, Cingular Wireless, Centennial Communications, Crown Castle, Nextel Communications, and Verizon Wireless. In the last two years he has designed and developed his own detuning skirt to be used when AM Coordination requires detuning. There are over twenty of these skirts around the country that are currently in operation.