[BC] putting phone calls on the air

[Lane Radiolanes Main]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Taggart" <tpt at eurekanet.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] putting phone calls on the air


> We got rid of mama Bell and the phone cops.  Now we have Microsoft and
Windows guaranteed advantage (for them!).
>
> The more things change....
>
> I remember that if you were in GTE territory they were lot friendlier,
cooperative & didn't really care what you did. Unfortunately, the people
were nice but a lot of the equipment was junk.
>
> And John, I have one of those rotary dial phones with the 1/4 inch jack on
the side, PTT swiltch & that white tab you pull up.
> Was on the air Friday, in fact! We had two phone-in ball games, a rarity.
Usually have one of the games close enough to use Marti.
> -- 
Agree Tom:

WGA failed on 4 of 12 new machines from a brand name vendor. Customer
support solved the "problem" ( a story for another thread)

Yes GTE was great as for the people. I had the CO numbers as well as the
supervisors home number. We used to call the CO with a trouble call, they
told me to call the repair number so there was a record of the problem. They
99% of the time had the problem solved by the time I got off the phone
reporting the problem to the repair operator.

Lane