MOTH:	Joining me here at the BCN transmitter site atop Mount Scio is 
	our director of eng--.

LUKE:	( SHOUTS )  Watch it with the Imfelder Gas Tube !  If that bursts 
	you're all dead men !

MOTH:	Joining me is BCN's director of engineering, Luke Chernyansky.

LUKE:	Hello, Paul.

MOTH:	Thanks for taking a moment out of what is a hectic day here, switching 
	from the modern Torma digital array to the tried and true Krupps Funkenscheit 
	coal-fired system.

LUKE:	There are problems.

MOTH:	Now Luke, since we switched from coal-fired to digital back in summer '95, 
	a huge number of listeners have complained about the quality of the new signal.

LUKE:	Paul, I hardly know what to say.  The digital array provides a signal of 
	measurably higher fidelity.

MOTH:	But our listeners weren't hearing that.  They commmented on the coolness, 
	the ...? sterility of the new sound.

LUKE:	The fact that people found the old signal ... warmer, as it were ... can 
	only be explained by ... well, no, it can't be explained.  By every standard 
	the Torma array is a superior transmitter. Coal fired radio only seemed to 
	sound better.

MOTH:	Still there were problems with the array, weren't there ?

LUKE:	Paul, when you work with an emerging technology, there will always be ... 
	growing pains. 

	But the service interruptions were brief.

MOTH:	Also some radios were ...

LUKE:	They overheated.

MOTH:	That's putting it lightly, and the birth of the radio babies in the area...

LUKE:	They've never proven a causal link. 

MOTH:	Did you ever find out what ...

LUKE:	Sun spots.

MOTH:	Hmm ?

LUKE:	Mount Pinatubo, solar disturbances, these all have an effect on broadcasting 
	that we're still learning about.

MOTH:	Obviously.

LUKE:	I don't know.  Maybe we should ask ourselves the question, was this the right 
	place to introduce such sophisticated technology ?

MOTH:	What, are you saying Nfld ?

LUKE:	I'm thinking of climatic stressors, Paul. The short summers, the incredible 
	humidity, the weird winters ... these ecological imbalances, perhaps ... jingled ... 
	or jangled ... the complex and sensitive contrivance that the Torma Multitransmitter is.

MOTH:	Hmm.  

LUKE:	It really ticks me off, actually, that we've got to do this.  Not so much 
	the cost of refitting, or of scrapping the array.  But they never gave this new 
	technology a chance.  The digital signal is stronger, the sound is better.  

MOTH:	Still, perhaps not as robust as the coal-fired signal that so suited the 
	Nfld terrain.

LUKE:	There's no future in an organization on its way back to coal-fired radio.

MOTH:	Well.  Much to chew on there.

LUKE:	Hey, you !  De-polarise that Grafton Stream before you put the ... ah !  You idiot !

MOTH:	Thanks for doing this, Luke.
	
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