"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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David wrote:

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:12:31 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

David wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:31:38 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

I looked at both XM and
Sirius and I wasn't impressed by either.
There's your problem. You looked at them. try listening to them.


Your sense of humeor must have died a very painful death.


How about the pure satisfaction of building a commercial
station and transmitting the first signal?

I enjoy putting big-ass non-commercial stations on the air a lot
more.
Commercial radio is generally run by assholes.

I don't know about ''pure satisfaction'' though. That sounds a
little
fruity.


Its "fruity" to take a pile of dead and damaged equipment, rebuild
it
and put it on the air? I dismantled, moved, reassembled and got a 1952
RCA Transmitter ready to use even though parts were no longer
available. BTW, it wasn't a commercial station.

I was a broadcast engineer at a number of stations, both military
and
civilian, and yes, I do derive satisfaction from doing what others
couldn't. Arrive at a transmitter site to find the current staff had
everything so FUBARed that they had given up, then put the transmitter
back on the air. In fact, the US Army awarded me their version of a
first phone as a civilian acquired skill when I was drafted in the
early
'70s.

As far as "big-ass" I worked on a Comark 130 KW transmitter with a 5
MW ERP that was non commercial.
I've supervised and maintained a 120 kW Comark S-Series (3 IOTs). The
most powerful TV station in the #2 DMA as a matter of fact.

I've emergency repaired 3'' Heliax with beer cans. So what?

''Pure satisfaction'' however sounds like what happens about 10
milliseconds before you die.

Have you built anything that's in use in space?

He built the tinfoil hat he wears does that count?