I did not suggest one per station.
Also required should be 1st class ticket engineers in the employ of
electrical utilities, who clearly do not respect good RF practice. These engineers would be responsible for
identifying QRM sources and coordinating repairs, which are clearly needed everywhere.
If the equipment is so much better and reliable, why can I tune up and down the dial and half the stations sound awful?
Regarding forced divestment of properties, why should cluster owners even be required to have audio on the carrier at this point?
Think how much money they could save if the onerous requirement of modulation were dropped!
Clusters already use many stations as "losers" just to keep other stations more profitable.
What's the difference with silence or a simple loop message that tells you to tune to the other frequencies they "own"?
Some of this is sarcasm, some of it isn't.
I can speak only to the engineering issue, I've never been devious enough to find newer and better ways to exploit
value as is required in the modern business world.
My experience is that when companies will not pay for someone adequately skilled to care for their technology, things
go to pot in fairly short order.
Back in my childhood, annual automobile inspections in Indiana were required to be able to license the car.
As soon as this requirement was dropped, you began seeing people driving around cars with shattered windshields, bald tires
and no mufflers. We can all understand why this scenario is preferable to keeping a law which employed the mechanic at the old
corner gas station.
How many other niceties of orderly civilization simply cost too much to keep up?
Police? Fire? We could save lots if we simply decide they were luxuries we can no longer afford.
As long as the laws of physics are inviolable, attempts to circumvent proper engineering
will be evident in the product.
You don't always get what you pay for, but you sure as heck don't get any extra just by accident.
I used to stop for broken down cars on the side of the road to help folks, and back in the day when cars used more
robust, reliable technologies, more often than not, I got them going again.
Now I can only laugh at them, while still wishing them the best.
Their Lexus cannot be fixed on the side of road, it will need an expensive "no start" diagnosis.
I could never afford to buy a Lexus, or any car so precious that I wasn't able to repair it myself MOST of the time.
And why should I stop on the side of the road to help out a "suit" from the "upper crust"?
Their ilk has discounted the value of engineering. They should suffer and call AAA.
While I've been exploited in a field service travel job, desk drivers made enough money to speculate in housing
and other "investment" vehicles that were not sustainable.
I've really had it with the short-term view of best business practices that only serve the stockholders
while exploiting those who bust their knuckles doing the real work in this country.
Please explain why the current mess is preferable to the more orderly RF environment we once enjoyed.
