[BC] SX5 Bites the dust.

[Dana Puopolo]

Tom is right!

I "worked" for a station that is licensed for 5 kW DA-2. They have been
running on night pattern for the past three years, because the day pattern
doesn't work. No matter anyway, because they didn't have a remote control or
antenna monitor either!  Both their tower lights were dark for over a year.
Finally, the FCC came in to inspect (by appointment) - but they had got one
tower lit an hour before the Inspector arrived.  The day before I had got
their EAS unit working properly-again they knew the inspector was coming. The
last test it had shown before I fixed it was 2003! When the inspector came
everything was working well. After that, his checks began coming later and
later and I found he was 'nickel and diming' me to death.
With all this stuff wrong, what did he want me to do? Install a Barix link s
he could save $$ on his program line! Finally I quit-aand he now has a guy
coming in once a MONTH!

There are LOTS of smaller statios that operate just this way...

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:10:09 PM EDT
From: "Thomas G. Osenkowsky" <tosenkowsky at prodigy.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] SX5 Bites the dust.

> 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
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