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These days I wonder what I’d say to someone who asked for a tour of my radio station. There is very little to show. A single computer workstation is used to generate the audio, a few transmitters tucked here and there, and some blended antennas that do not impose, except for the FM bamboo tripod tower on a stool.
Time was I maintained a two room studio with a glass window built into the wall between rooms, plenty of mics for interviews and round table discussion, a double sized rack loaded with blinking gear. This was for both commercial recording work and a non-commercial feed by 15kHz phone-line to a 12.5kW public station.
That experience taught me to avoid having “volunteers” coming and going, because property had a way of vanishing and there were cigarette burns in carpeting and cup stains on wooden furniture, even a grease stain from a whopper burger on a conference table.
Now the interviews I do are either by phone or over at a restaurant that has no objection to my PZM microphone and Zoom recorder, and which keeps their ceiling music at a low volume.
One client wanted to stage talk shows in my home and even offered to buy all new furniture for the right look, but no way. With that furniture sitting there I’d never be able to back out.
Private and personal, that’s part 15 radio for me.
