Re: Fwd: Herald: Is WWZN dragging down SNR?

[Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU>]

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>[...]  Unless a college station is run by professionals, what group of
> students is going to have time to do all that, with classes, papers,
> projects, exams AND the FCC breathing down their necks?  Further, what
> group of students (yes, even EE students) knows enough about AM
> directionals to be able to properly maintain and troubleshoot the array?
>
>I know whereof I speak, BTW.  I went to Cornell for a brief time.  Their
> student-run station was and still is a commercial FM operation...and was
> known campus-wide for the flunk-out rate of its staff.

Sounds like a familiar story... (fortunately, not *that* familiar. :-)

Seriously, though, I think these days that the only college stations
with student technical staff tend to be "techie" schools like Cornell
and MIT.  I believe most non-technical schools contract out to consulting
engineers for their stations.  Not that they would necessarily have the
time to constantly babysit a directional array, either...

-Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu