Safety: RE: [R-390] Now *this* is a really nifty idea...

[wb5uom at hughes.net]

Great, now all I need is someone to take the business(s) off my hands....I
can be packed tonight.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William J. Neill" <wjneill at consolidated.net>
To: <wb5uom at hughes.net>
Cc: <W9RAN at oneradio.net>; <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: Safety: RE: [R-390] Now *this* is a really nifty idea...


> Well, I've got five CY-1119/U racks One with two R-390As and a
> CV-116C (a complete FRR-38), an R-390A and a 51J4 in another rack, an
> R-389 and an R-220 in a third rack, the fourth rack with an R-391 and
> SP-600JX, and  the fifth rack holding a complete FRR-33 and can
> assure you that one rack with two R-390As and CV-116C fully alight
> keeps the house pleasantly want down here in the Great Dismal Swamp.
>
> Further evidence of my technical obsolesence.
>
> Bill
>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 6:14 PM, <wb5uom at hughes.net> wrote:
>
> > A sad story, but Ohhhhh so true. and getting worse.
> >
> > And I see myself not fitting in to the general scheme of Business
> > today.
> > If I could get out, I do beleive I would be in a small cabin in
> > Alaska with
> > my radios and a cup of coffee.
> >
> > How many R-390A's would it take to keep the place warm I wonder?
> >
> > Bill, I understand completely.
> >
> > David/WB5UOM
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "William J. Neill" <wjneill at consolidated.net>
> > To: <W9RAN at oneradio.net>
> > Cc: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: Safety: RE: [R-390] Now *this* is a really nifty idea...
> >
> >
> >> I can't resist any further.  This has carried me over the edge.
> >>
> >> I spent 35 years in the railroad business between 1965 and 2000,
> >> beginning at age 19 as a telegrapher and yes, I did Western Union
> >> business as well as railroad business.  That being as it may, I went
> >> through a remarkable transition of technologies over 35 years into a
> >> significant level of computerization of operating control and
> >> communication processes, including real-time status reporting of
> >> locomotive conditions from anywhere on the system to a centralized
> >> mechanical desk that was alerted to anything varying from design
> >> specifications.
> >>
> >> Following service as a telegrapher, I also ran locomotives for a few
> >> years and then settled down to the craft of train dispatcher and
> >> later chief dispatcher, supervising operations on increasing lengths
> >> of railroad.  Ultimately, I ended up overseeing operating policies
> >> and practices for half (6,000 miles) of the system and four years
> >> later, the entire system.  All with nothing but a high school
> >> diploma.
> >>
> >> Now, in the railroad business, men can and do get killed and I was
> >> witness to two deaths, both of which were ghastly and one due to a
> >> case of dumb ass and the other a case of management stupidity.  The
> >> first 27 years were relatively stable with the business being run by
> >> those who came from the ground up and therefore there was a hands-on
> >> familiarity with was was required to run the railroad at 245AM on a
> >> cold and rainy Sunday morning.  And, 31 years, nine employee
> >> fatalities occurred.  However, in mid-1995, the MBAs showed up and
> >> began running the railroad by "metrics" with everything packaged
> >> neatly to fit on very pretty and colorful spreadsheets.
> >>
> >> And in late 1996, as a high school graduate at a senior level of mid-
> >> level management, I was demoted and replaced by an MBA who expected
> >> me to reveal all of my techniques that allowed me to work my magic
> >> learned over some three-plus decades.  Four months later, two
> >> additional MBAs had been added to the roster, trying to do what I had
> >> been doing and many of my tasks were eliminated because they could
> >> not be measured and made to fit within computer programs that could
> >> be "connected" to other programs that ran in other company
> >> departments.
> >>
> >> However, during calendar year 1996, two employee fatalities occurred;
> >> 1997, six; 1998, five, 1999, three; and 2000, three.  I left with a
> >> suprise early retirement in April, 2000, because I was a trouble
> >> maker and not a team player (I know this because my supervisors told
> >> me this).  In so many words, the MBA management viewed employee
> >> fatalities as a public relations fiasco rather than as a failure
> >> internal policies, practices, and knowledge.
> >>
> >> End of  my story.
> >>
> >> Bill Neill
> >> Conroe, Texas
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