[BC] Transmitter visits at insecure sites

[Glen Kippel]

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Received: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:51:39 AM EDT
From: "cldube" < <mailto:cld at admin.umass.edu>cld at admin.umass.edu>

I'll bet we all have some interesting stories regarding strange encounters
at tx sites.

C. Dube
Amherst, MA

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Back when I was doing contract work for KSNN, licensed to Los Banos, 
CA, with the transmitter site south of Merced ... the place used to 
be miles from anything, but then the county built a jail about a mile 
behind the tower.  So, one night I'm doing some after-midnight 
maintenance and I go out to the car to get my tool box, and I see a 
couple of cars coming up Sandy Mush Road at a prodigious rate of 
speed.  I go back to work, and the cars pull up outside.  A couple of 
deputies get out and ask me what I am doing.  While tightening 
connexions with a knuckle-buster I explain I'm the engineer and I do 
maintenance at this time of night because they station loses fewer 
listeners that way.  I just proceeded to look like I belonged there 
and knew what I was doing until they got bored and went away.  They 
did, however, suggest that I call the dispatcher to let them know 
when I would be coming out again.

I also had to stop doing target practice with my .22 out there...

GK