[BC] Making engineering pay

[Alan Alsobrook]

Notice I said "thinks" they can get by. You are correct, it's a matter 
of making sure they understand that. I also meant to type "for a period 
of time." after without you.

On my end if the station didn't accept a contract and went on a per call 
basis, when they call for an emergency they go to the back of the line, 
and can shift further back if a contract station has a problem. I'm also 
to the point of not getting out of bed for non contract stations, it can 
wait until I normally get up and get going.

Sid Schweiger wrote:
>>>The real problem is the equipment is so much more reliable, that 
> management thinks that they can get by, for long periods of time without 
> an engineer.  The bad side of this is if you installed it all correctly 
> it's a good chance that they will not have any problems without you.<<
>  
> That's fine, as far as it goes.  The rest of that "problem" is that more reliable equipment stays that way ONLY with regular attention and maintenance.  You can have a radio station full of the latest equipment, but if it's never tended to, never cleaned, never checked for proper performance, it will be more unreliable than the stuff we were dealing with 30 years ago.

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Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD CBNT
St. Augustine Fl. 32086 904-829-8885
aalso at Bellsouth.net