[BC] Maintaining old transmitters

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

Even funnier .. pre-cell phone days.     The owner of WAAY-TV was a ham
and the main ( and only ) transmitter went off-air on a Saturday morning.

He was on his way to his lake house and when we got to the co-located studios,
the Master Control op said that he had called from his house and asked  
us to look at the ham radio autopatch repeater before we fixed the TV  
transmitter.
True Story.

Don R

Quoting Dana  Puopolo <dpuopolo at usa.net>:

> When I worked for MRBI  KBLA's DX 50 was off and they were on the DX  
> 10. While
> fixing the transmitter I was called back to the studio to fix a printer. Even
> better, the problem with the printer was that they had badly overfilled it
> with paper. I wasted two hours of my time because some idiot in bookkeeping
> could not read the warning in big black letters *on the printer* that said:
> *Do not put more then 200 sheets into this printer or will not work!*. All I
> did was take about 150 sheets of paper out of the tray and it began
> printing-while KBLA remained at 10 kW.
>
> -D
>
> From: Neal Newman <cozy659 at yahoo.com>
>
>   I recently learned under new policys from upper management.
>  That paperwork is more important than going out and fixing a  
> transmitter when
> the station is off the air.
>  Gotta love it.
>
>