[BC] Frequency Measuring

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

Early in my career I had the pleasure of working with Claude. He did 
the  freq measurement while I was at WHSY AM/FM in Hattiesburg through 
about 1975. Ditto on the dial tone.  He would always talk about his 
"heathkit sig-in-all gen-ur-ator". Smart guy.....fun engineer.

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN (really, don't laugh)
wbzq1300 at verizon.net


gRAdy Moates wrote:

>    I remember Claude measuring WJHO, Opelika, AL, 1 kW on 1400, 
> changed to WANI in 1997.  The call letters were for the station's 
> founder, John Herbert Orr, co-founder of Ampex and founder of 
> Orr-tronics and make of Irish recording tape.  I'm sad to see that the 
> call letters have changed. 
>    When I worked there, Claude insisted that we modulate the 
> transmitter during the test with the "old-style" telco dial tone from 
> AT&T days, because he said that it "cut through" the noise better than 
> anything else. 
>    When the local company switched to the dual-tone dial tone that we 
> all know and love today, we had to use a recording of the old one. 
>    Claude was also dead-set against the use of the term "Hertz" to 
> replace cycles-per-second.  We talked about that at 2 AM on a number 
> of nights. 
> Grady
>