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ID this console?

Probably the largest collection of analog PR&E consoles left reside at Clear Channel, San Diego. As originally built in 2000-2001: 32 control rooms and news booths. (And 8 talk studios.) All PR&E, all analog. (Except for one airwave.) BMX-I, II, III, (including the board that started this discussion), AMX, ABX, and PMX. It was quite a place! Some of the documentation that Harris was going to pitch wound up at Granite Ridge Drive. Haven't been there in a couple of years so I don't know how much has changed...
 
That console is a BMX-3 26. It was moved at least 3 times from Gibbs Drive, to Kearny Villa Rd, and then to Granite Ridge Drive. It had the call letters of KLZZ, KKLQ, KJQY, and now production for XHRM. It is serial number 26. I had the great privilege of learning how to board op on that very console when it was KJOY 94.1, and I learned from the greatest DJ in San Diego, Gene Knight. The console was refurbed in 2000-2001 by PR&E for service at Granite Ridge. It is still a great console. I remember one night at KJOY I was replacing the bulbs on that board and I put a new bulb for one of the meters and the console's power supply folded back, and took us off the air. The PD at the time called me (at 3am) and told me to stop changing the bulbs immediately! And I though to myself "duhhhh of course I'm not going to leave the console dead!
 
Just as a matter of history the Q-106 board was installed by some of the best engineers ever. At Kearny Villa Rd they had some really awesome warning lights that would flash when the cd was ending or the cart was ending. And they had 2-Studer Tape Decks, 3-Denon 951's, 6-Tomcats, and a Shortcut. Bill Thompson had even wired the EBS controls into one of the panels on that board. The engineers that originally built Q106 at Kearny Villa were none other than Tom Cox, John Rigg, and Bill Thompson. After they left "The legendary engineering team of John Barcroft and Ron Foo moved KJOY 94.1 into that studio. Ah the good ole days of radio with cds, cart machines, and live dj's. Oh! and guys down the hall from KJOY was Rock 105.3 where on Friday nights there were kegs of beer, and strippers !!!! Yes the nude strip bars would send over their dancers to dance nude for the employees. But that was in Jacor days, DAMN there will never be a company as great as Jacor again.

Damn Janet Jackson screwed up broadcasting. No one wanted to see her old saggy breast!
 
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