[rescue] Radio Follies, (was "mysterious hard hangs, two different sun4m's")

[Sheldon T. Hall]

"David L Kindred (Dave)" <d.kindred at telesciences.com> said ...

> We used to a have a facility within sight of the tower for what was then
> WCAU, 50Kw 1210Khz.  That stuff got *everywhere*.  It was especially
> annoying trying to debug hardware when processors used to run at about
> that speed.  The only good news is that we found all the "gotchas" in
> the analog and voice circuits.  It's not a very scientific theory, but I
> think the higher the RF power the more things look like diodes :)

We have a fundamentalist Christian AM station about 2 miles away, and the
other day I had a loose connection in my phone system.  The result was the
intermittant interjection of portions of the broadcast into a technical
meeting conference call .... Much amusement ensued, as you might imagine.

-Shel