[BC] Worst 'engineering' ever seen

Paul B. Walker, Jr. walkerbroadcasting
Mon Apr 9 11:51:37 CDT 2007


By the way, he was operating for over 2 weeks without filing that 2nd STA

Paul



On 4/9/07, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The story I heard about that STL was that the STL Antenna on the studio
> roof wasn't bolted because the building owner wouldn't allow anything to be
> nailed/bolted to the roof and after the antenna blowing over twice, they
> gave up.
>
> (Them being the LMA Holder and another individual the LMA holder had)
>
> --
> Paul B. Walker, Jr.
> www.walkerbroadcasting.com
> walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com
>
> P.S. The station he owns filed a 2nd 6 monthg STA back on January 4th,
> 2007 and it hasn't been granted yet!
>
>
>
> On 4/9/07, Larry Fuss <lfuss2 at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > That has got to be one of the WORST cases of "engineering" ever! Can
> > anyone
> > else top this?
> >
> > Several years ago, I LMAed one of my stations in Mississippi to a guy
> > who
> > ran the Sunday morning church service by placing a microphone next to
> > the
> > telephone receiver.  (The church audio arrived via POTS line).  Needless
> > to
> > say, this sounded like hell.
> >
> > This same guy also couldn't figure out how to hook up the STL after he
> > moved
> > the studios, so he used a really low-quality Internet stream to get
> > audio to
> > the transmitter.  It sounded like hell too.
> >
> > I took the station back after he defaulted on the LMA contract.  But not
> > before he stole a lot of my equipment and apparently sold it on
> > e-bay.  When
> > I sued him, he filed bankruptcy.
> >
> > LF
> >
> >


-- 
Paul B. Walker, Jr.
www.walkerbroadcasting.com
walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com


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