[BC] Audio "proofs"

[Jerry Mathis]

Yeah--I still have a vivid memory of that. Early in my career, I was the one who turned on the transmitters for WORM and WORM-FM in Savannah, TN for Claude. He wanted the dial tone on the AM. The old mechanically-generated dial tone that South Central Bell used with the old step-by-step exchanges. One night, I thought I'd be clever, so I put a tone on the air from an oscillator I had. Boy, was he upset! He called and let me know in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that he wanted the DIAL TONE! And for the reasons mentioned already.

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Jerry Mathis

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, harold stanton <k5gvr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Thread drifting.......................
> In the South, it was Claude Gray near Birmingham.
> He used the interpolation oscillator method as well.
> But, as 'dial tone" for identification.
> Always in the middle of the nite.You called him in your
>fifteen minute assigned window. i once asked him about the
>dial tone. He said that many folks then may be testing with
>tones. but only his "folk" would be using a dial tone.
> Rcvr was a Super-pro. Oscillators, GenRad.
>   Harold