[BC] when you had to bunk at the station

[Dave Hultsman]

In a message dated 4/7/2010 10:05:59 PM Central Daylight Time, miltron at mindspring.com writes:
>Is there anyone here that worked in the biz back when at least one
>>> real live person had to be at the transmitter site full time
When I was Chief Engineer of KLIF in Dallas, we had separate day and night sites.  Due to the strict remote control rules and an unstable sampling system we operated both sites as manned with First Class Phone Licensed Operators.  Even if we had the stability in our sampling system the First Class License would have been required at the studios for remote control operation under the existing FCC rules.
 
Our biggest problem was the being sure that personnel were on duty at the site when it came time for switching, especially the day to night switching of both powers, locations and patterns.  There was not leeway in the rules for "Late" pattern switches.  Later on I set up remote controls to allow us to switch sites to avoid the late arrival engineer problem.  (I assume the statute of limitations have run out and will not invalidate my FCC First Class License)  
 
Dave heading to the NAB
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