RE: NY NWS station off air??
With this thread I am reminded of the following http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKpDZigvoVo
David K. Bialik
From: Parnau, Alan W [mailto:awparnau@PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:17 AM
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I’ve been reading this thread with much amusement, and must tell a story of my own. Many moons ago when I was Chief at WDHA, the manager decided he wanted “music on hold”, so that people could listen to the station while waiting. So, I order up the service. When the installer arrived, I showed him to the basement and told him to just leave me block where I would tie the audio in later. I went back to the AM station (WMTR) to do something else, and got a call that we had lost one channel on WDHA, and we were in mono (we only 15 KC Telco lines to the transmitter). So I go back up to the FM and into the basement to see if audio was leaving the building. I came upon the “music on hold” installer, and he told me he saved me a job, he already tied the audio into the “music on hold”. You guessed it; he took the audio off one side of the 15 KC stereo pair to feed the music on hold. I was not pleased.
Alan
From: Tom Ray [mailto:tomray@PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:00 AM
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Subject: [sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air??
I sent letters to each member of the Board of Directors of Verizon for continuing ISDN issues we had here. The guy in charge of repair called me in somewhat of a huff a couple of days later - while we were chatting, he started looking over the repair records then blurted out "Holy S###!!!! This is costing us real money to keep sending people out!" Next day there were 10 Verizonites on site....all problems solved within two days. Funny how that works.
When I worked in Hartford, the phone company needed to replace the 66 blocks on the building mainframe - they were 25 years old and literally were falling apart because the plastic had dried out - every time they hit any block with an impact tool, a chunk would fly off. We had a bunch of old circuits, some not identified at either end. So, since we had a dedicated 50 pair cable from the basement, I identified - and tagged! - every pair in use by an unidentified circuit at their blocks in the basement. A week later, I hear a network news actuality on the air driving in that has a huge hum on it. I get in to find all lines back from the transmitter (where the sat dish was) humming (yes, we had hum on the air all night and the overnight person didn't find that to be a problem!). So I marched down to the basement where two phone company types were working, and there, on our block, all the circuits humming had one side lifted (all were tagged). So I started laying into them - what about the tags THEY saw me put on and approved of my labeling the other day - and what about come up and ask me before they lift anything didn't they understand? "Uhhh - - we didn't know what those circuits were, but figured if we lifted one side, someone would complain about the hum". Sometimes I think you need to fail an IQ test before you can work for telco.....
TR
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Marshall, George <GeorgeMarshall@PROTECTED> wrote:
Used that once after a prolonged issue with a PRI on a T1. Technicians and field managers showed up at the site and asked me “What the heck did you do? You wouldn’t believe the hornets’ nest you’ve stirred up!” Amazingly, the problem that had dragged on for a month was fixed in a matter of hours after that phone call. And all I did was leave a message J
George Marshall - CBRE
Chief Engineer - WHTZ-FM / Z100
Playout Systems Supervisor
Clear Channel Radio - NYC
From: David K. Bialik [mailto:dkbialik@PROTECTED]
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Subject: [sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air??
On Mar 7, 2012, at 6:28 PM, "mkluger1@PROTECTED" <mkluger1@PROTECTED> wrote:
True story...I swear:
When I took over my current job, we did not have a list of our circuit numbers and what the far end locations were. I knew that we had a number of circuits that we were the customer on, and a number of circuits that the party at the other end was the customer on, and I could get the circuit numbers from the tags in the frame room, but i had no way to match up which circuit number correstponded to which far end location. So, I decided to make a list of all of the circuit numbers, and then call Verizon and ask them to tell me the far end location of each circuit number.
They were more than happy to give me this information for the circuits that we were the customer on. However, when we got to any circuits that the person at the far end was the customer, they said that they could not give me any information without the customer's permission. When I asked how else I can find out who the circuit belongs to, they said (I'm not kidding here) that for each circuit that I need to know who the customer is, I need to have the customer send a letter giving the circuit number and authorizing Verizon to release the information to me. I could not seem to get them to comprehend that in order to get the customer to send a letter, I need to know who the customer is, and that if I had the information to match each circuit number to the customer, I wouldn't need to ask Verizon to tell me who the customer was.
Mike
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From: Tom Ray <tomray@PROTECTED>
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Subject: [sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air??
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:20:06 -0700
I'm sorry.....that circuit doesn't exist.....
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:53 PM, <jeffsmith@PROTECTED> wrote:
Maybe longer...it will take that long for VZ to find the old circuit info before a ticket can go in! :)
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: Tom Ray <tomray@PROTECTED>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:37:08 -0700
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Subject: [sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air??
OK. So what you're saying is that it will be off the air at least 3 months? :o) Verizon. No Progress Here Today.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:31 PM, mkluger1@PROTECTED <mkluger1@PROTECTED> wrote:
I spoke with NWS staff about the outage at around 10:30 this morning. They told me that the circuit to their transmitter is down. They have reported it to telco and are awaiting repair.
Mike
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From: Tom Ray <tomray@PROTECTED>
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Subject: [sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air??
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:47:06 -0700
Wonder if it's maintenance or the solar activity?
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Jeff Smith <jeffsmith@PROTECTED> wrote:
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Looks like it...not getting it here either.
Jeff
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From: Stu Engelke [mailto:audiotoantenna@PROTECTED]
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I'm not getting 162.55 on either of my receivers.
Stu
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