[BC] Frontline Wireless emergency network

[Phil Alexander]

Don't follow your "logic" of what confidence in government has
to do with building radio stations.

Cost/benefit analysis is always an engineering consideration.
Obviously, if a day off air costs ten times as much in lost
revenue as a genset and large fuel supply, you put in the
genset.

Just as obviously, if you let government do something better
done by private enterprise, it will be late, probably wrong
and cost far more than the result justifies.

I happen to believe the proper role of government is doing
those thing the people can't do better for themselves, like
national defense, maintaining an orderly flow of commerce
etc.

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Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037


On 5 Mar 2007 at 11:48, Robert Meuser wrote:

> Sorry
> 
> I am a cost is no object kind of guy. I have had the good fortune to 
> build radio stations that way and will not give in to cost cutters. 
> People laughed when we put in standby power that had a 10day supply of 
> fuel  to run all the TXs in the building at the same time until the 
> lights went out for an extended period of time. Then that  turned into 
> thank you. You can either do the short cut engineering approach or do 
> the damn the torpedoes approach and cover yourself for everything. I 
> luckily have not had to work for cheapskates. I inherited stations that 
> took the same approach, in both cases no one looked backwards.
> 
> I have turned down jobs offered by those who do not want to pay for 
> first class plus operation.
> 
> R
> 
> Phil Alexander wrote:
> 
> >
> >Confidence in government? Wake up and look around. The last time
> >government did anything right you were a kid in short pants
> >at the very least.
> >
> >If done by "government" it gets done by **private** contractors
> >who rake a large chunk of change off the top. Why do you think
> >it costs 10 to 100 times as much for "government" to do it?
> >
> >Government and a few utilities are the only entities left who
> >don't feel the discipline of the marketplace in our society.