[BC] Stupid Board Op Tricks

[Ron Cole]

Congratulations you have a four-year degree in broadcasting...

Now in the next 6 weeks I will show you how TV/Radio really works...

Ron


On 11/16/05, Gary Peterson <kzerocx at rapidcity.net> <reader at oldradio.com>
wrote:
>
> " As a means of ensuring that stations have technically competent people
> operating
> in a technically competent manner, I'm all for it. I've seen too many
> people pass
> through our doors who can't find their tushie with both hands..
> ak "
>
> I remember an operator (DJ) that, upon realizing that there was dead air,
> completely followed the procedure to switch to the backup transmitter. The
> fact that the meter readings on the main TX were normal or that the VU
> meters on the board were not moving didn't register as important. The
> program buss assign switch for the fader in use had somehow become
> deselected. When the operator was shown the cause of the problem, the
> reply
> was (paraphrasing) "Oh, I don't touch those because I don't know what
> they're for." A couple of weeks earlier, I determined that taking/logging
> meter readings was a totally foreign concept to this person.
>
> I take partial responsibility for this operator's lack of training, as I
> incorrectly *assumed* that someone with a four-year degree in broadcasting
> would know some of this stuff. Apparently, the undergraduate college
> curriculum does not include logging readings or what a VU meter or program
> or audition buss is for. Maybe logging and the basic block diagram of an
> audio console or radio station is part of the master's or Ph.D. program.
>
> Gary, K?CX
>
>
>
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