[BC] The State Of Radio Today......

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/7/06 6:18:10 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
richwood at pobox.com writes:

I can't  recall working for anyone who wouldn't help a competitor in 
need. I've  seen stations send transmitters to help. I think the 
refusal to help is  unusual.



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I have seen the same courtesy between stations.
 
I've worked for several managers that told me that I was not to communicate  
with competitive engineers in our market for any reason. Needless to say I am 
an  individual aand paid not attention to his restricting or picking my  
friends.
 
One Guru Manager,  very successful financially,  gave me an  chewing one time 
when we lost a shunt capacitor on our #1 rated station and he  had to run at 
1 kW instead of his 5 kW until I found a .0015 mica   capacitor locally. We 
didn't have any combination that would  work.   I got the station on the air and 
back to full power after  about 4 hours and some fone calls to fellow 
engineers who loaned me the exact  capacitor I needed for the ATU.  I ordered two 
replacements totaling about  $800.00 bucks and the guy had the nerve to tell me 
to return the original  capacitor to the engineer of the competition that 
loaned it to me.  FAT  CHANCE,  I lied I told him I changed them out and returned 
but the GOOD  NEIGHBOR got a brand new replacement for the courtesy of loaning 
me a part that  we should have had in stock.  I found notes were that  shunt 
had  failed before.
 
Engineers do help each other but I doubt if any reveal their technical or  
company business to any competitor.
 
Of course I have worked for many A** Holes in this industry.  There  are some 
good ones also.
 
Dave