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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Mike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a copy and will post ASAP.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any idea where it originated or who to credit?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Engineer's Night Before Christmas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Twas the night before Christmas and I had finally gotten home<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When my Wife met me at the door and handed me the phone.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"It's that darn remote control thing" she said in great dismay<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And the Burk doesn't call simply to say Happy Holiday.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So while my children were hanging the stockings by the chimney with care<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm preoccupied trying to get the transmitter back on the air.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"ON filaments, ON plate, NO output? You stupid ____""<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Recycle, RESET, Overload? I'm fixen ----!!"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regaining my composure to notice my Daughter's staring face<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Asking "Daddy - do you HAVE to go to that transmitter place??"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"Yes Honey", I said "But it won't be for long"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hoping deep down inside that I wasn't wrong.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So out I trudged into the cold winter's night<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To the world's most remote tower site.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Driving past all the houses, lit up with holiday glee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Feeling sorry for myself -- and asking why me ??<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But as I got closer my heart was feeling some lighter<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When all of a sudden -- I started hearing the EXCITER!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"Powr Supply"! I thought ... "surely it's not the final"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My heart's racing now, anticipating my arrival.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With schematic after schematic dancing in my head<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"what if the plate transformer's shorted dead"??<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Throwing open the gate and running into the shack<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I start to tackle the problem and race around the back<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Where much to my amazement what did I see ??<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A half open back door door --- apparently not shut good --- BY ME !!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So as I return to my cottage after a night so tiring,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm wondering if perhaps McDonald's is hiring !<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then I think "What a profession --- I could never leave"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After all, I've got maintenance scheduled for NEW YEARS'S EVE !!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!!!<o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> SBE16-Board <sbe16-board-bounces@sea.sbe16.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Brooks via SBE16-Board<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 18, 2021 10:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> SBE Chapter 16 Executive Board <sbe16-board@sbe16.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [SBE16-Board] Party<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#212121'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-signature><div><p class=MsoNormal>Great team work by all pulling tonight's party. Gifts, guests, Santa, slide show. All great stuff!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jon and Jim, any chance we could get a copy of The Broadcast Engineer Night Before Christmas posted on our Chapter 16 website front page? I bet it would draw some hits/shares!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'll do the numbers in next few days. I'm on vacation starting tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Jon for the kind recognition. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone<br>Get <a href="https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg">Outlook for Android</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>