[BC] Class "D" AM Towers

[Dana Puopolo]

Yep. That was the strange thing. This station was in some kind of legal
quagmire where MRBI owned the license but the original owner owned the land
and towers-and MRBI employees were FORBIDDEN to set foot on his property! I
had a contract engineer working at that station, and H never budgeted any $$
for him to INSTALL the transmitter, so it wound up sitting unopened at our
1300 transmitter sute-becases the VP asked me to get it out of the staff
room.

Think about it-here was about $20K in brand noew transmitters just sitting in
Chicago and Los Angeles unused-yet they refused to reimburse me 75 bucks to
emergency replace a fried DSL modem because I didn't get a PO for it first
(the Internet was down in the entire building and they were screaming they
wanted it fixed NOW!). I never did get paid for it, and if I had remembered I
would have taken it out and left them high and dry when I left. I would have
expected to be fired for doing somethinbg as boneheaded as this like this-but
H has been there since the beginning and a lot of things apparently get
overlooked. I do know that Jim G. is now in charge of all the engineers now at
MRBI. 

=D

From: Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com>

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.

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