OCR Text |
Show Jesse Long, principal at MHS called last Thursday to tell me that the note about the bonfire at school, in this column last v.crk got his hackle up. We invited in-vited his rebuttal i.n the Principal's Prin-cipal's corner thi's week, but reckon it must have been so hot it burnt up the paper. Actually though, we believe that along with freedom must cume y'csponsibility, and in this particular case, others were taking advantage of freedom, while Jesse had the responsibility. responsi-bility. o You bet! Our face is red! Last Monday night we got home from work and turned on the tube to see the news and had no picture at all. Figuring rightly that a tube was out we called Mr. Rulon Brox and had him check out our set. Rulon found the trouble and got us a picture, so then we proceeded to tell him as we had many others in the past couple of weeks about how our picture had continually failed and gotten worse in the past couple of weeks. Rulon started adjusting our set in an attempt to get us as good a picture as he claimed to have o.n his set. Try as he v. ould he just couldn't bring in a decent picture on channel two and four. Mr. Brox then turned and said, "I've got a whale of a better picture at my house, and your signal should be as good or better than mine. It's just got to be something on your roof" meaning my antenna or lead-in. Now I jumped at the chance to prove him wrong, because I just ran a new lead-in about two months ago, and when the signal was synchronized just before be-fore the 1st of the year I had an almost perfect picture. Immediately I started tracing the lead-in out. heading toward the antenna and prove that the problem was in the signal. Yep, you guessed it the first connection I came to had been jerked, kicked, pulled or somehow broken in that short time. The one wire was just laying across the other, allowing allow-ing just enough signal to pass, to give me a lousy picture on channel 2 and 4 and a good enough one on five to convince con-vince me that the problem was elsewhere. The end result was a near perfect picture on channel 2 and 5 (8 and 12) and a watch-able watch-able picture on channel 4 (10) at least as good as it has been since since we hit town. The moral to this story is just this check out your own equipment, no matter if you've just done this a week or so ago. I'm convinced that most of the problems being reported re-ported to this column are probably prob-ably due to home malfunction. At the same time it is not cur intention to indicate that if you get your set fixed that all will be rosv. Mr. Brox assures me that though the new equipment on the hill is now functioning fairly well boosters will be needed so that this equipment equip-ment will not have to be driven driv-en so hard. In the final analysis, analy-sis, we are asking more of the equipment than it was designed de-signed to do. We feel that an expenditure is warranted for these boosters and that it should be made as promptly as possible. After all, once we know it's working, and don't have to turn on the box to see how good or bad it is today we can all take in a good movie programming is so poor that once we get over the question to see or not to see no body will watch it anyway. |