[BC] Audio "proofs"

[Dale Adkins]

A long long time ago I was responsible for KLIN,  a 250 fulltime AM on 1400 
in Lincoln, Nebraska, and I
received a telegram from the FCC monitoring station in Powder Springs, 
Georgia,  allegeding that we  were
26 cps off frequency.  I thought one of my buddies was spoofing me.  After 
all, we had a monitoring station at
Grand Island, NE ninety-three miles away......and I get this Western Union 
from Georgia.??  I placed a call to
Powder Springs to be sure the notice was authentic.  Surenuff was.  How they 
measured our 250 watter on that
crowded frequency still mystifies me. ( Oh,  we had a crystal oven problem.)
DA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rene Tetro" <rene at wfil.com>
> Speaking of measurements, how many of you remember talking to Clarence
> Cheney at Cambridge Crystals each month to get your frequency measured? I
> remember that he would call sometime after midnight, I would put the 
> station
> on high power, throw on a 1000 Hz tone, and he would make the measurement.
> Early in my career I was working at WALL in Middletown, NY (in the early
> 70s) and it amazed me that he could pick out my frequency on 1340 kHz 
> among
> all those other Class IV's that were on the air.
>