Our Story
Larry & Judy Shaefer's backgrounds
- Education: Larry graduated from La Marque High School in 1962, Attended Lamar University in Beaumont from 1962-1964 (Majoring in Electrical Engineering), Transferred to U of H 1964-1966 majoring in Electronics and Communications Technology. Judy grew up in Texas City, went to Texas City High School (1972) and College of the Mainland (1977-1978- Computer Science major)
- They manage and own numerous Telecommunications and Tower Companies in the Houston / Angleton areas - which hold FCC licenses in Texas - Colorado & New Mexico. Larry has been selling all types of electronics since he was a young teenager. He sold a CCTV security video system to the Borden Milk company in the 1960's to find out who was stealing the milk bottles and bought every seat and escalator, Scoreboard and more in the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston Texas. To this day he still has some of the foot rails from the old Livestock show's Corral Club bar. You never know what he will buy to sell at some auction!!!
- Larry was a member of the City of Houston Tower ordinance Committee for the 1980 & 1990 revisions. He assisted Angleton, Missouri City, Hedwig Village, Heights Association and Near-town Civic Association on tower locations and issues.
- He has done research and development of business related News stories for Channel 11 (Dave Fehling), Channel 13 (Marvin Zindler and Wayne Dolcefino), the Houston Chronicle and The Sentinel Newspapers (Freeport). He has also provided them with props for stories. Larry was asked to provide cell phones for the Robocop movie series when filmed in Houston.
- We have been in the communications business in one facet or another since 1964. Our founding partner, Larry Shaefer has gone from repairing, to designing to constructing various types of systems since high school & college. Larry spent several years working at NASA on Apollo /L.I.M. communications and Nuclear transport programs. Larry taught Judy what a resistor was in 1977 when he owned the Radio Shack franchise store in La Marque, TX and they married in 1981 and have been working together ever since.
- Beginning in retailing and support staff, Judy has sold everything from small electronic components to stereos, TV's, movies and computers. She also spent time in the 1970's to the early 1990's typing those multi-part carbon-copy FCC forms when you could not make a mistake or the Commission would return it. She has been leasing tower space to wireless carriers and others since 1990. She has also learned to use ULS to bid on the RCC and VPC 43, 152, 450 & 931 MHZ License Spectrum and updating license requirements on the WTB / ULS Licensing section of FCC.gov as the Office Manager for our various corporations and investments.
- Larry has had vision and the intelligence to understand this business and the changes that have been made throughout the past 40+ years and has managed to shape his businesses to conform to what it takes to participate in this industry.
