[BC] Ingenious equipment sabotage stories

[Robert Meuser]

Flash back to AFN when they first tried to implement automation. Jocks quickly 
discovered (with help from engineering) that if they programmed their punch 
cards to call for songs at OPPOSITE ends of the 14 inch reel to reel decks the 
brakes would burn out during the search. They blew up that system in a matter of 
weeks.

R

Craig Bowman wrote:
> Then there is the guy who called one of the Mutual radio shows and 
> played the be-doops causing all the stations to go to local break.
> 
> 
> Craig Bowman
> Bowman Engineering
> Durand, MI 48429
> 989-277-8835
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> 
> Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says "I've lost my electron," The other 
> says, "Are you sure?" The first replies "Yes, I'm positive."
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote:
> 
>> I was told a story while at my first CE job in 1976. Somewhere
>> in New England an engineer who was fired or who was about
>> to be went to the station overnight (must have been a daytimer).
>> He popped the voice coils on all the mics and TT cartridges on
>> a HV power supply. Clear nail polish on all the reel and cart
>> tape heads as well as on relay contacts in the transmitter.
>> Black insulators on ATU hardware. Basically a severe case of
>> sabotage that was not visible to the naked eye.
>>
>> This has to go back to the early 70's. Don't know anything more.
>>
>> Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE
>>
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