About Us
Maxwell Communications was founded in 2001 by Daniel Maxwell and his family as a services based company focusing on the needs of radio stations transmitter sites world wide. Family and friends have helped in advisory and financial roles throughout the 23 years of overall work experience in broadcast radio.
Services offered by Maxwell Communications are due to a fortunate placement in 1990 in the Harris Corporation. In addition, many good and thankful thoughts also to go Dave Briggs, Charles Shoemaker, Cordell Loken, and John Morton - all mentors outside of Harris. Often it is discovered that overseas friends teach valuable lessons in getting along with what they have. Thanks go to these people from several radio networks in the USA and in foreign countries.
Bibliographic Information
Listening to radio was an important thing as Daniel grew up in far away places such as Dahomey, France, Upper Volta, and the Ivory Coast. Daniel's mother listened to short-wave through out the day and it ingrained a sense of awe at how radio could be transmitted from one corner of the earth to another corner and be received with such a life-giving necessity.
The radio receivers were on in the market place as Daniel went to villages through out west Africa and people would turn their volume up so all the neighbors could hear the news as well. It was thrilling to see how people depended on radio for their sustenance as well as current events and instruction for how to live. This background bred a deep desire to spread the good news through the world and to help those who do the same.
In the 1970's Daniel traveled to locations where short-wave transmissions originated and grew to admire engineers from places such as Holland, Switzerland, and the USA. They were methodical, involved skills that were broad and mission critical, and needed to fix things in remote areas where Radio Shack didn't exist and you could not just go down the street to the neighboring Home Depot to buy supplies. Theirs was a daunting challenge but handled with a cheerful and skillful practice. They were well rounded with musical skills and had beautiful families and were also involved with community outreach. This is what Daniel wanted to be like when he grew up.
In 1985 he received a degree in electrical engineering at LeTourneau University. He continued his studies at Wheaton Graduate School in 1986 received an M.A. in Missions and Intercultural Studies in 1990.
Work began in late 1986 at the Criswell Radio Network in Dallas, Texas. There began the lifelong application of theory in practical circles, of the nature of working in a radio station where a broad set of skills are needed. Challenges are rarely the same day after day and so for approximately a quarter century, these skills are gathered and growing and there has not been a dull day, no way!
Daniel is married to Jacqueline and has one son, James. The family has traveled to the Ivory Coast, Italy, South Caicos, Bermuda, Alaska, and Brazil and currently resides in Duluth, Georgia, just outside the metro Atlanta loop.
| Maxwell Communications | President, Engineer, Radio Transmission Services offered as temporary contracts or in service agreements. | 2001 to present |
|---|---|---|
| Butler Technical Group | Contract radio field service engineer serving mostly Harris Corporation's contractual needs in sites in Italy. | 2000-2001 |
| SIM Interlational | Short term missions radio volunteer in the summer supporting their low power station ELVA in Abidjan, Ivory Coast | Summer 2000 |
| Harris | Systems Engineer in Customer Specials supporting specific designs such as a touch screen based controller for the government broadcasting group RAI from Italy. Later Daniel would travel to Italy to commission five of these systems in combined AM transmitters. | 1999 |
| Harris | Senior Radio Field Service engineer from 1990-1999, supporting Harris customers with telephone or field support for products of Harris radio transmission. One of the key experiences was helping the Voice of America receive training in the Master Control Room in Washington, D.C. Work spanned over 30 countries in 9 years with installation, troubleshooting and trainng projects. Some service bulletins were written. | 1990-1999 |
| SIM Interlational | Short term missions radio volunteer in January 1990 in Monrovia, Liberia, helping to graph the radiation pattern of a shortwave curtain array. Cordell Loken was a good mentor and advisor. | 1/1999 |
| MSW | Broadcast engineer from helping to rebuild transmitters, repair small signal equipment such as exciters, and manufacture low power FM antennas in a machine shop. Daniel also tuned each bay with a bridge and a programmable calculator. Charles Shoemaker was a good mentor and like a father to Daniel while his parents were still in Africa. | 1988-1990 |
| Criswell Radio Network | Broadcast Radio engineer / technician from 1986-1988. This help involved six radio stations installation, a satellite uplink, a little shortwave maintenance, moving the studios from Dalls to Arlington and the transmitter site from Dallas to Cedar Hill, Texas. | 1986-1988 |