Mark F. Hutchins • Consulting Radiofrequency Engineer

"...A Nationally-Recognized Expert In The Field"

Mark F. Hutchins, shown at a Congressional briefing on tower siting issues.

With More Than Four Decades of Telecommunications Experience

Mark F. Hutchins, former radio station owner and tower landlord, built his first computer when he was 14, and a year later gained dial-up access to the legendary Dartmouth mainframe computer.  Among other things, he employed it to calculate ground-conductivity effects on radiofrequency propagation.  He received the highest class FCC Radiotelephone License while he was still in secondary school in 1967.  He went on to work as a broadcast chief engineer and his extensive radio-television experience, leading to positions at two Fortune-500 broadcast-equipment companies, culminated in establishing his consulting practice in 1989.

Mark joined the Society of Broadcast Engineers in 1971; he is a Senior Member and Certified Senior Broadcast Engineer since 1977.  He is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society, and he worked on Standard 356-2001 for the Wave Propagation Standards Committee of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society.  Well versed in facility collocation and interference issues, he is the Accredited Frequency Coordinator for FCC Part 74 spectrum below 2 Gigahertz for the State of Vermont.

Mark primarily works for municipalities and is truly independent: he has not accepted wireless site-acquisition work for providers or tower developers for over nine years, and he has not accepted work for abutters or similar interested parties for a similar length of time.

Mark is a member of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church and established Web presence for the Diocese of Vermont when he served on its Communications Committee.  He has served on the Brattleboro Town Finance Committee and as an elected Town Meeting Representative.  Mark is a member of American Mensa.