RE: Does anybody really know what time it is, engineering division

[EM1 GITCHIER <RGITSCHIER@doyle.navy.mil>]

Aren't station engineers sometimes part of the 'aloof' set? <I can surely
be> Hence the lack of attention to the time of day or power
switches/sign-off times. Heck, I see first hand how folks at the station
won't even realize the station's off the air, or the mistakes/little nuances
left out in the canned programming once in a while. 

When I worked at WLLH 1400/WSSH 99.5 back in 1978, it seemed that a whole
team would rush out of the woodwork to AM or FM control if there was any
dead air [kinda like those scrambling National Guardsmen/Police in the
closing moments of the Movie Blues Brothers (hut-hut-hut-hut!)] Surely the
exception than the rule now-a-days!

Ron Gitschier
(Oh, is it dark out? Excuse me while I power down from 10kw)
WGSR 1570. 
-----Original Message-----
From: mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu [mailto:mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu]
Subject: Does anybody really know what time it is, engineering division


        Heard WATR/Waterbury, Conn/ 1320 change power (5 to 1 kW) promptly
at 6:30 p.m. EDT tonight. The N.H. station could then be heard in the
background, 10 miles from WATR. Didn't stay around to hear if they were
still using EST for their timechecks, too.

:)