[BC] unreliable old equipment query

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

1968

Huntsville's NBC feed was daisy-chained from Chattanooga / Knoxville /  
Tri-Cities / Roanoke / Richmond / DC / ??? .

For some reason, ( tariffs I suppose )   the path at Chattanooga was  
from Knoxville / Chattanooga AT&T / Chattanooga affiliate / back to  
AT&T / then several hops to Huntsville.   The most unreliable part of  
the path was the
AT&T to the Chattanooga affiliate and back to the AT&T toll.

AT&T wouldn't feed Huntsville direct from their bridge from Knoxville,  
and we were always having to call Chattanooga AT&T when the return  
path to them from the NBC affiliate failed.

If I was persuasive enough, I "could" get a patch to bypass the  
problem for the duration of the outage.  Never could convince them to  
just "forget" the patch.

One of the AT&T engineers was testing our AT&T termination equipment  
behind our UHF GE transmitter when our chief engineer came running in  
and asked him if he planned to have any more children.

That's the last time I ever saw the guy and the AT&T supervisor was  
really pi$$ed off at our chief.

Don Roden