[BC] Staffing levels

[Dana Puopolo]

Yeah, and cars are that way too many believe-until the engine blows at 50 K
miles because the oil was never changed.
Look at that picture of the burned up SX-5 at WLIS in Old Saybrook, CT. That
TX should/would have never burned up had it been cleaned once in a while and
been kept cool. What's sick is that the insurance likely replaced it-when it
was extreme negligence that caused this! I saw the same thing with a 50 kW rig
years back. It was so dirty that you couldn't see the tubes-but after it
burned, insurance bought them a brand new DX50! I once worked at a daytimer
where the owner was so cheap that he got rid of me because he found a high
school FM 'engineer' that worked for five dollars an hour less then me.
BUT...when it came to maintaining his candy apple red Caddy, he thought
nothing about dropping a grand twice a year on routine maintanance. He spent
more on that Caddy then on his radio station.

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:50:46 PM EST
From: "Ron Nott" <ron at nottltd.com>

Another factor is that a half century ago, most of the equipment
contained tubes which required periodic replacent.  Then things had
to be aligned from time to time.  Other things needed
troubleshooting.  Nowadays the solid state equipment is black box in
nature.  You plug it in, connect the ins and the outs and it operates
maintenance free for years.  It just ain't the same and it also
provides no heat for the building.