[grc] Fwd: [NCRA-Members] The Night Before Christmas - for Broadcast Technicians

[Frieda Werden]

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From: <ltyndale at mnsi.net>
Date: Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 5:15 PM
Subject: [NCRA-Members] The Night Before Christmas - for Broadcast
Technicians
To: NCRA Members <ncra-members at ncra.ca>


I'm not sure who originally wrote this, but this comes to
mind this time of year.  For all those technical folks,
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Christmas Eve For Engineers

Twas the night before Christmas and I had finally gotten
home
When my wife met me at the door and handed me the phone.
"It's that darn remote control thing" she said in great
dismay
Which doesn't call simply to say Happy Holiday.

So while my children were hanging the stockings by the
chimney with care
I'm preoccupied trying to get the transmitter back on the
air.
"ON filaments, ON plate, NO output? You stupid ____"
"Recycle, RESET, Overload? I'm fixen ----!!"

Regaining my composure to notice my Daughter's staring face
Asking "Daddy - do you HAVE to go to that transmitter
place??"
"Yes Honey," I said "But it won't be for long"
Hoping deep down inside that I wasn't wrong.

So out I trudged into the cold winter's night
To the world's most remote tower site.
Driving past all the houses, lit up with holiday glee
Feeling sorry for myself -- and asking why me ??

But as I got closer my heart was feeling some lighter
when all of a sudden -- I started hearing the EXCITER!
"Power Supply"! I thought ... "surely it's not the final"
My heart's racing now, anticipating arrival.

With schematic after schematic dancing in my head
"what if the plate transformer's shorted dead"??
Throwing open the gate and running into the shack
I start to tackle the problem and race around to the back

Where much to my amazement, what did I see ??
A half open back door --- apparently not shut --- BY ME !!
As I return to my cottage after a night so tiring,
I'm wondering if perhaps McDonald's is hiring !

Then I think "What a profession --- I could never leave"
After all, I've got maintenance scheduled for NEW YEAR'S EVE
!!


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