[BC] Harris Corp. Seeks Cuts in Transmitter Business

[Dan Kelley]

> I do not intend to intervene in this discussion, but rather to comment
> solely on the above. At an NAB one year long ago (Las Vegas) I
> was talking to my Harris DSM. There was a UNLV student who just
> asked him for a quotation for an FM transmitter/antenna as part of a
> class project. He was barefoot, hippie garb, etc. The DSM scoffed
> at that but had a boiler-plate prepared quote for such requests. I told
> the DSM that one day that hippie might be a customer.

As one who has throughout my life looked considerably younger than my
real age, I had a similar experience on the floor at the NAB Vegas
Convention circa 1992.  

Shopping with my then employer (who looked even younger than I 
appeared) for a new hard-drive automation system for an AM/FM combo.

Asking for demos at the first two booths we visited, we were given a
less-than-enthusiastic response and quickly given the cold shoulder
once others entered the booth floor space.  I'll spare mentioning
the names of those first two companies - but they still exist today
and are leaders in station automation.  They apparently didn't want
to waste time with some "kids"...

We finally dropped into to Computer Concepts exhibit where then-owner
of the company, Greg Dean - spent the good part of two hours taking me
through the complete comfiguration of the system as I was reviewing my
format notes on what we needed the system to do.  After I gave my 
employer the thumbs up, he wrote a check on the spot. 

As the cluster grew with more signals through deregulation, our DCS
system grew with it over the years - until it eventually was replaced
with a more modern-day system.  

-dan in lansing