As to me writing some of my thoughts of the past.. I have so many I don't know where to start.. So if it is alright with you, you could start a folder for me and as I come up with some goodies you can save them... I remember so much about things that took place over the span of my life that I don't really know where to start ... I also must be careful not to get my ol' ass sued by some of the "characters" that are still alive or would read some of this stuff.......
(Censored - - - ) She use to bring me and her a quart fruit jar full on frozen margaritas every morning and after the show we would either go out back or behind the transmitter and unwind a little... I remember this date very well , July 2nd 1963... I felt so good I decided to reward myself a little further so I went down to Electronics Wholesalers and talked Jack Pickens out of a new Collins S Line, which I still have today........
And the time the engineers, I think Bob and others , were transferring XXX movies from the film chain to VCR after sign off (turned main transmitter off) and they left the GE exciter on (which fed a small signal through to the antenna) and everyone on the mountain witnessed the whole thing....
So MD, if you think we could have some fun with the lighter tales and a little later on some of our serious accomplishments such as our first Townsend transmitter which we paid $86,000.00 for and channel 19 paid over $300,000.00 to RCA at about the same time, the Double Cola case for the multiplexer for the old RCA film chain instead of paying RCA $34,000.00 for a new multiplexer and of course one of my favorite tales is when RCA and GE both wanted over $250,000.00 back in 60's to the sell us a color transmitter and I went down to Miss Mock's and spent a little over a dollar and got me some 47 millihenry chokes and a few trimmer capacitors to make some 3.58 MHZ color traps for the old GE exciter's modulator in order for it to pass the color burst and at the same time have back porch clamping.. We use that same circuit until we retired the GE back in 1981.....
(Editor's note: yeah, Cactus, I think we could have some fun with stories like this, send me some more)