[BC] forget the brain dead engineers what about the DJ's?

[Mike McCarthy]

While our stations still do manual logging as a means to show we have
control of the TX, check tower lights several times a day, et al., many
stations no longer require operations staff to take meter readings, let
alone check tower lights. Their reasoning: " It's done automatically, so
why should we need to have any interaction at all?"

It's these client stations I tend to advise the higher hourly rate to
account for a nuisance factor of staff calling to tell me the obvious and
they have no idea what to do.

MM

> In a message dated 4/5/2010 2:04:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> glen.kippel at gmail.com writes:
>>I wouldn't expect the PD to know how to properly operate a Sine Systems
>> remote control and instruct others in its use.
> But don't most PD's begin their careers doing at least some air work,
> which at most stations nowadays includes transmitter readings.?  Logic
> dictates they have basic knowledge of the technical side of broadcasting.
>
> Frank