[BC] SX5 Bites the dust.

[Thomas G. Osenkowsky]

> the other thought that comes to mind... ignorance?   or sabotage?
> Ugly thoughts generated by an ugly result....

The first mentioned may not rest with the engineer.
Have you not considered that the owner/operator
only calls upon the engineer when something fails?
No routine maintenance or monitoring? Have you
ever been inside the transmitter house and witnessed
the conditions therein, or in the antenna field?

The engineer would not have bypassed circuit breakers
or performed other unsafe modifications. In fact, there
may have been another person who performed
emergency repairs in the past.

The engineer in question filled in for me ten years ago
when I was hospitalized for five weeks. I started
babysitting for his daughter when she was one month old.
That was far easier than now when she can be a cranky
3 1/2 year old.

Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE