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kiis fm is out

  • Thread starter jasonharper2006
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Did you ever get your 1st?. Terrible mistakes!

I'd like to tell you about the time I ran a continuous EBS Tone on KPRZ for 40 minutes, or the time I played Larry King Backwards for an hour, but I won't!. However, it's always best to listen to the Air signal, even though it didn't really penetrate the high rise walls of 6255 :)


> > True, but training operators is still something that
> should
> > be
> > done. As it is now, only the older guys who actually had a
>
> > license know what to do.
>
> Milage may vary. I found that the guys with tickets they got
> at REI and places like that knew just enough to be
> dangerous. One of them, at a directional in DC, could not
> correctly calibrate the antenna monitor and decided the
> array was out, and started cranking on the phasor. It cost
> about $5000 in consulting engineer fees to get it back in. I
> would rather tell them not to touch anything.
>
> : A few years back I was on the air
> > at
> > a major station when the operator at our sister AM down
> the
> > hall
> > kept re-running the ebs test over and over. He had NO
> IDEA
> > what
> > he was doing and thought that he should keep doing it till
>
> > he
> > got it right. Unfortunately he was sending these out to
> > every
> > station in the region. Later, that same operator had a
> > transmitter
> > failure and no clue what to do. I had to go over and get
> > him
> > back on the air. All he needed to do is push 2 little
> > buttons
> > to restore the signal.
> >
>
 
Re: More professionalism

> Milage may vary. I found that the guys with tickets they got
> at REI and places like that knew just enough to be
> dangerous. One of them, at a directional in DC, could not
> correctly calibrate the antenna monitor and decided the
> array was out, and started cranking on the phasor. It cost
> about $5000 in consulting engineer fees to get it back in. I
> would rather tell them not to touch anything.
>
There are many knowledgeable people who held and still own broadcast tickets. I can recall a few with 3rd Phones who knew infinitely more than guys with their 1st Class Licenses. Many 1st ticket holder learned nothing but the answers that they memorized. I guess I’m a dinosaur, but I’ve never blown anything up or taken a station off the air with stupidity. If I don’t know how to do it, I call the engineer. But my whole point is that there is very little training anymore, and many times that knowledge can fix a problem before it gets out of hand.
 
Re: More professionalism

> I guess I’m a dinosaur, but I’ve never blown anything up or taken a station off the air with stupidity.<

OH, I have!. Ask me about the time I took out 3 Major Market Stations (KIIS FM, KPRZ, and KFSG FM) by plugging in a tiny Space Heater, however I will never admit it publically :)
 
> KIIS came back on the air four minutes after jasonharper2006
> posted.


Maybe he was only able to see THREE minutes into the future.

(How long HAD it been off?)
 
> (How long HAD it been off?)

That's an excellent question. He didn't say and no one has confirmed whether it had been off for a couple of minutes or an hour before he noticed and posted.<P ID="signature">______________


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