Re: TEXSCAN 450 Gear
Member #: 153
Registered: 1996-2001
Posted:
2694
Name:
Gary Vest
Name:
Gary Vest
Company:
Bowlin Group
Occupation:
build/splice/sweep
Location:
Williamsburg, OH
Personal:
early 60s
Experience:
~42 years
I tell ya what, people complain about TexScan, but the one system we had it on, seemed to hold well, once you balanced it. We had the old Magnavox 5 series gear, on two of the systems, and constantly had intermittent problems with the complete control modules. Talk about getting customers irrate! They'd call in at night, when the temperature dropped at least 30 degrees, and there wasn't a proper window to handle the measely 3 db, and by time you went out on the SRO the following day, of course the levels would be perfect and the test set looked beautiful. Damn call center wouldn't send it out to the on call tech, because it was a reception issue, not an outage. Could never get those call center people to understand that you needed to catch it while it was happening. That or just take a stab in the dark, and replace the one common to all the calls you received. Problem was, it was out in the willy wacks, and penetration wasn't great, so the country club it fed were the only ones who called in, and all those tobacco farmers along the way, never called in, because they really didn't give a **** if it worked or not. I am sure there was a better way, I just didn't know it. I finally did catch it though. Just went out there one night, without being called out, and nailed it.
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