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tower lights....what tower lights?
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The FAA requires that the site be monitored by a person once every 24 hours or by remote monitoring
My company supplies Tower Lighting systems and i know that if they do not have remote monitoring, i can get them a package
Thanks for the update - i grew up in Elm Grove, so i know the towers there in Canonsburg
My company supplies Tower Lighting systems and i know that if they do not have remote monitoring, i can get them a package
Thanks for the update - i grew up in Elm Grove, so i know the towers there in Canonsburg
that guy sounds like General Manager material to me, in fact I may have worked for that dope at one time.Savage said:A jock I once worked with asked me - and he was serious - to explain why it was necessary for AM daytimers to have tower lights.
Hell, they're not even on the air at night, he said.
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loeper said:that guy sounds like General Manager material to me, in fact I may have worked for that dope at one time.Savage said:A jock I once worked with asked me - and he was serious - to explain why it was necessary for AM daytimers to have tower lights.
Hell, they're not even on the air at night, he said.
Ha! Probably the same GM who ordered me to tell our listeners that we were off the air... (the guy was serious too)
An old morning show guy that had been in our market for years demanded his board op (he couldn't run the board himself) "pot down the music because I need to tell the listeners to be patient and bear with us because we are off the air". The board op tried to straighten him out but eventually just potted him up and let him announce they were off the air. LOL!
I worked at a station where we used to play a CD straight through every night at midnight. Our equipment was pretty much garbage and the STL would die on us from time to time. One night it dropped while I was in the last stopset at the end of the 11PM hour.
At that time of night I figured it would take some time to find the CE and for him to get it running again, but I told the overnight guy to start the CD so that the engineer could find some audio. As I was leaving the building about 12:15 he comes running out and says "We're back on, what should I do?" I told him I'd just let the remainder of the CD track through, we had been off the air about 20 minutes and I didn't think there would be people sitting there waiting for us to come back on.
Of course I didn't think about the people who were sitting at home waiting to record the CD. After the last song on the disc finished he recycled the disc and played the first few which had been missed. Then the mic opened .... no station ID... no titles, no artists.... I hear "THERE!!!!! ARE YOU HAPPY???? Those were the most ignorant phone calls I ever got in my life!!!! Dropping F-bombs and everything!!!! That's our midnight CD. Geez."
At that time of night I figured it would take some time to find the CE and for him to get it running again, but I told the overnight guy to start the CD so that the engineer could find some audio. As I was leaving the building about 12:15 he comes running out and says "We're back on, what should I do?" I told him I'd just let the remainder of the CD track through, we had been off the air about 20 minutes and I didn't think there would be people sitting there waiting for us to come back on.
Of course I didn't think about the people who were sitting at home waiting to record the CD. After the last song on the disc finished he recycled the disc and played the first few which had been missed. Then the mic opened .... no station ID... no titles, no artists.... I hear "THERE!!!!! ARE YOU HAPPY???? Those were the most ignorant phone calls I ever got in my life!!!! Dropping F-bombs and everything!!!! That's our midnight CD. Geez."
hypwr said:Driving back from the Nailers' game last night (Kalamazoo 4 Wheeling 2) I noticed that one of the WWCS towers was lighted. Couldn't determine which one.
Must have been a mouse or snake-chewed wire...who'd have thought those little buggers can wreak so much havoc on a radio station? When I was at WKPA back in the early 90s, we were knocked off the air by a snake who found his way into the Continental and grounded (and subsequently BBQ'd) himself.
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FreddyE1977
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kenhawk1160 said:hypwr said:Driving back from the Nailers' game last night (Kalamazoo 4 Wheeling 2) I noticed that one of the WWCS towers was lighted. Couldn't determine which one.
Must have been a mouse or snake-chewed wire...who'd have thought those little buggers can wreak so much havoc on a radio station? When I was at WKPA back in the early 90s, we were knocked off the air by a snake who found his way into the Continental and grounded (and subsequently BBQ'd) himself.
Veteran engineers can tell you some very entertaining stories about the wide variety of wildlife that
they've found barbecued in transmitter shacks. Especially if they've worked in Florida or Australia.
And here I am planning on a bologna sandwich and chicken noodle soup for lunch!
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