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December 2nd 04, 04:55 AM

On 30 Nov 2004 09:32:54 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

I have one word for you. A word that strikes fear in the hearts of First
Class holders everywhere.

Tapecaster.

Tapecasters were simple and relatively crude, but held their alignment
pretty well, whereas Audicords were prone to get out of alignment and
were badly underpowered. I'll take a Tapecaster over an Audicord any
day.

I have one client that still has one Tapecaster and one Spotmaster in
their MCR, for a one-hour live weekday show where the jock has a lot
of old music on carts. Another station would like to contract with me,
but until they get rid of the Audicords in their MCR I'm not
interested.

BTW, cart machine maintenance had nothing to do with holding a First
Class Radiotelephone Operator License. Large stations had studio
engineers to keep the cart machines running, and First Phones to keep
the transmitters running.

Dale H. Cook, Chief Engineer, WWWR Roanoke VA, WCQV Moneta VA, WKBA
WZZI Vinton VA, WKPA WLNI WZZU Lynchburg VA, WMNA/WMNA-FM Gretna VA,
WOWZ Appomattox VA
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