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Short Wave Sportfishing[_2_] August 9th 08 12:39 PM

Mildly amusing...
 
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/...radio-fail.jpg

Larry August 9th 08 04:40 PM

Mildly amusing...
 
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
:

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/...radio-fail.jpg


And, probably, quite appropriate...(c;

I had an old friend, long dead now, who was chief engineer at a successful
FM rocker running 100KW from 500' near the middle of SC. He was old and
hated what they played, calling it crap. I stopped by his house and his
wife said he had transmitter trouble so was at the tower. I went over
there and he was watching it to see if he could determine why it was
faulting (arcing somewhere) every so often. We talked for a while and
finally saw the driver tube plate current meter jumping and changed out the
tube.

Knowing how he hated that noise it was transmitting, I asked him, "How do
you know when the audio is distorted on this stuff??"

"Any distortion I can add only enhances this fine music.", was his reply...
(c;

The picture reminded me of that day.....



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