[BC] Old Equipment

[Bill Jacobs/WRDV]

>    Now, put yourself in 1963 with a then modern station with things like cart machines and DJ oriented console designs

  I've said more than once that I was born about 20 years too late.  I was repairing cart machines until about 6 years ago, when we finally replaced them with a touch-screen computer system.  Just a week ago, I rebuilt the power supply in an RPU receiver that got fried when one leg of the three-phase power at the tx site went hooey.  Total cost, about $4.00 in capacitors vs. several hundred dollars for flat-rate, send-out repair, and fixed in a day or two.

  Our Radio Systems Millenium (analog) console is modern enough to be really good, but old-fashioned enough that you can actually work on it beyond just swapping boards.  (Un)fortunately, it doesn't need much maintenance.

  Can I fix computers?  Sure.  But how much can you charge to fix something that could be replaced for $500.00 ?  Thus, I do it for free.

  I *love* doing this stuff.  If I'd been born in the 30s, rather than the late 50s, I could have made a living doing it.  Practicing law just doesn't compare.  Of course, on the other hand, what I get paid to do that makes the other stuff possible.

Bill