[BC] unreliable old equipment query

[H.A. Stanton]

Well,
 That certainly brings back the memories.
 First the funnies: WHTV began with temporary
service from AT-T just across the road using a portable
RCA 6Ghz microwave link, but toll costs from Jackson,
nearest tariff point some 90 miles distant. Very expensive.
 Built our own inter-city microwave with then new MA-COM
MA-2A gear. First Monday morning on the new link, following
shutdown of the AT-T link on the Sunday nite, we suffered a 2+
hour fade! That never worked out well either! We signed on and
filed bankruptcy the same day. My lifelong joke was with every UHF
CP there should have blank bankruptcy papers sent along in the envelope.
 So that if you didn't have the money for the postage later, it would already
be on hand.  Many times the AT-T / GTE coax and Microwave links would
fade, but the audio was delivered via twisted pairs mostly, so loss of video
was not necessarily paired with loss of audio. People would listen, then catch
back up with the return of the pictures. More in the next one.
   Harold