Tuesday does not look like a good day at Granite Ridge

[RadeoEngineer]

I remember the days of 1 engineer for each station.

Granted computers, more efficient transmitter technology and automated remote transmitter monitoring makes things much different than were 20 or more years ago, so has IT taken over some of the jobs from engineers - if you have a problem in the control room do you call the Geek Squad now?

Yeah, except that in many instances the geek squad is the one guy trying to handle all aspects of a four to six station cluster. Solid state transmitters have made life much better for engineers (mostly, there are some dogs out there that you don't trust as much as your 30 year old Gates) and not having to maintain cart machines and CD players has eased the load, but when you have as big of a system as the Granite Ridge installation, it'll keep three people very, very busy just trying to maintain status quo. When all the old geezers like me are gone, ain't nobody gonna be there to deal with directionals and other voodoo.

 

[SDRadio]

When all the old geezers like me are gone, ain't nobody gonna be there to deal with directionals and other voodoo.

That's gonna be a sad day. By the time the dust settles, that may happen in June.