[BC] SX5 Bites the dust.

[Tom]

Ah!   No aspersions meant to your friend and our professional 
colleague - just a first impression based on the visual 
evidence.  You're correct, of course - mods could very well have been 
made by some non-technical person(s) which would have lead to the 
untimely demise.  My apologies.... but, certainly the condition of 
the building, and especially the transmitter, were shocking!
Tom S.

Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote:
>>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.