[BC] engineers nessessary

[Mike McCarthy]

I regularly receive calls asking to come look at some long neglected 
transmitter or array because they're off the air or severely curtailed.

My standard first question is "Where is your currrent engineer?"  In 
all but a couple cases, they say they don't have one.  My second 
question of "Do I have permission to properly address the issue as 
needed?" is often met with um...we can't afford much and it needs to 
be band-aided.  My comment to them is typcially that "I don't bandage 
over long already bandaged stop gap measures which have become defacto 
permanent through neglect.  Either I fix it right or they need to find 
someone else."

Some owners will never "get it".  Most certainly the smallest of small 
markets/stations which seem to think that because they are "poor", 
they can make me poor too. 

MM

> >>The problem, as I see it,
> is that the NAB represents the views of many owners that engineering 
is a
> necessary evil to be avoided whenever possible and generates unneeded
> expenses.
> 
> Not all owners feel that way.  I have been fortunate to run into 
some who
> realize the importance of good regular, routine and preventative
> maintenance.  It's a hard lesson to learn for some, until they are 
sitting
> with a 50kW AM or a 100kW FM that's off the air, and can't find 
anyone to
> come work on it.  Then they come to understand the importance of
> engineering.  Those owners who have not found themselves in that 
situation
> are the ones most likely to NOT understand the importance of 
engineers.
> Does anyone else find ironic, considering the shape of radio today, 
that it
> was STARTED by engineers?
> 
> Scott Cason
> President
> LaGrange Communications, LLC
> 502-213-0024
> www.lagrange-com.com
> 
> 
> 
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