[BC] Worst 'engineering' ever seen

[Gary.Zocolo]

I will confess to using the first cousin of the 635 against a table
radio...it was the last hope....We were doing a freebie remote for a big
dollar car dealership for his annual "Day Of Thanks" around Thanksgiving. It
was a big deal to the sales department and every station that wanted to tap
this guy for advertising was there. Our station was one of the more distant
stations. We tested everything the night before and it was all fine, but
come morning drive, everyone on site fired up their UHF Rupp's and it wiped
out the IF on my tuner...the tuner the talent was using for air cue. I tried
several radios but none worked consistent enough. I took the wireless mic
they had planned on using to chat with drive up donors, put it in the
station vehicle on the other side of the lot, and turned on the van radio,
which worked fine. I plugged the wireless mic rcvr into the headphone amp
and drove the monitor amp with a headphone output. But it was only
temporary...it worked, we got a buy.

Gary Zocolo
Nashville

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Glaenzer" <gglaenzer at hqradio.com>


 > ah, the 'temporary' thing
 >
 > my son Mike was with me once when we were doing some wiring for a station,
 > and the owner said 'don't spend a lot of time on this, it's only
temporary'
 >
 > several years later (Mike was 14 by now) he was with me again when the
same
 > guy said that an installation we'd just done looked like h*ll
 >
 > Mike patted him on the shoulder and said 'don't worry, it's only
 > temporary...'
 >
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "gRAdy Moates" <lists at loudandclean.com>
 >
 >
 > > Every time I see one of these threads, I have a little chill run
 > > up my spine. . .
 > >
 > >     "Did someone find something that _I_ did expediently, and then
 > > never got to go back and do right?"
 > >
 > >     We all have'em, although maybe not quite as bad as a mike
 > > up against a table radio. .