[BC] Worst 'engineering' ever seen

[Scott Fybush]

Gary Glaenzer wrote:
> 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............

This reminds me of the stories I've read about Martin Luther King's 
Atlanta radio connection in the early sixties. His offices were in the 
same building as one of the Atlanta black radio stations (on 860, the 
one that's now WAEC; I forget what the calls were then.)

When Dr. King had a statement to make, the story goes, he'd bang on the 
ceiling of his office, the radio station upstairs would open the window 
and dangle a mike down to his window, they'd pull it inside, and away 
they'd go.

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