[BC] Worst 'engineering' ever seen

[Gary Glaenzer]

Jim Littlejohn (R.I.P.) used to tell a story about a station that had the
only  85-foot patch cord in captivity.

Their FM was on the 5th floor of a building and the AM was on the first
floor

When they wanted to get ABC on the FM, they would open the FM studio window,
drop the patch cord down to the AM, in the window and be good to go....

Lord, I wish I'd had a tape recorder going when Littlejohn got going on
radio stories............


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WFIFeng at aol.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:54 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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> Willie...
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