[BC] Brain Dead Engineers

[Jerry Mathis]

Well, as a former President once said, it depends on what the definition of "is" is. But, strictly IMO, anyone who would work on the ball gap on a tower with "heavy lightning flashes" in progress is, if not brain dead, at least an idiot.

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Jerry Mathis

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Dale Adkins <adkins at gotblip.com> wrote:
>In my younger days I was working in an AM transmitter building with a
>veteran radio engineer.  It was the middle of the night and there was a
>thunderstorm in progress.  Heavy lightning flashes kept knocking the
>transmitter off the air.  After a little while my
>friend excused himself, went out side the building and returned.  When he
>returned he told me he had "bent the spark gap closer together".
>This guy was a longtime transmitter engineer for one of the Corporate
>broadcasters in
>Chicago.  He's is now deceased....of natural causes.  Would he have
>qualified  as "brain dead"?
>DA

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