[BC] Worst 'engineering' ever seen

[Chuck Lakaytis]

And it wasn't even a cardoid mic!  635 as I recall.

Or the station that had all the audio wired with zip cord!


Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
135 Cordova Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
907 277 6300
907 277 6359 FAX
907 301 4339 Cell
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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:54 AM
Subject: [BC] Worst 'engineering' ever seen


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> This warrants a new thread! ;)
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> In a message dated 04/09/2007 11:51:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> chuck at akpb.org writes:
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>> Years ago while engineering in western Kansas, I came across a 
>> transmitter
>>  site that was repeating another station.  The equipment consisted of a
> table
>>  radio with a Shure microphone stuck against the speaker grill.  The 
>> Shure
>>  fed one of those incredibly bad Shure mixers. (M267?).  I had always
>>  wondered why the audio was so bad and where the blower noise was coming
>>  from.
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> Oh no... this *must* a case of "You can't make this stuff up!"
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> That has got to be one of the WORST cases of "engineering" ever! Can 
> anyone
> else top this?
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