[BC] Class "D" AM Towers

[Mike McCarthy]

Same thing here. A BE AM-1 in a full rack showed up at the studio one day
unannounced. The GM called and asked if I ordered anything from BE. I told
him I didn't and wouldn't have either for a variety of reasons. One being
we had just completed a build of the new TX room which this transmitter
was ordered and we had two working solid state boxes there...one less than
three years old at the time bought as part of the build. The BE box simply
sat at the studio as I didn't have the time or the budget to install the
box.

I think it had to do with a killer deal he got for a 4MX50 at his NYC
station. BUT...I'm not certain.  But that would explain why a LOT of
things happened involving BE.  George is not a BE man...Nautel and Harris
instead.

MM

> Things were so bad
> engineering wise that you had to get a multiple signature (like 5
> signatures)
> PO done for ANYTHING over ten dollars. This was becases & kept ordering
> things
> like AM transmitters without doing paperwork and $100,000.00 dollar bills
> would just show up at NY accounting.
> We had a BE AM 1K show up in L.A. one day-to replace the one year old
> Nautel
> J1000 that was running at 500 watts! No advance notice-just a bunch of
> boxes
> showed up at the door. BUT  buying that condiut was like pulling teeth!