[QuadList] Spares vs Supported equipment

[Roger Brett]

Park, thanks to you and all the other veterans in the group for their 
service to our country!

Roger Brett
Transfer Media, LLC

On 8/8/2013 11:41 PM, C. Park Seward wrote:
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> I worked at a large state university and learned how to play the
> requisition game. But I really learned in the Army.
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> I was at an AFRTS radio station and we needed some lumber to build some
> storage cabinets. But lumber was not on out list of requisitions but, of
> course, audio tape was. Now down the street was a grunt unit. They
> couldn't get audio tape but they could get lumber.  You see what
> happened. We got all the lumber we needed and they got all the tape they
> wanted.
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> It was amazing what two sergeants could achieve.
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> But there was only one AVR-1 at AFN-TV in Ramstein.
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> Best,
> Park
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> C. Park Seward
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> On Aug 8, 2013, at 7:26 PM, Michael COOP <mcoop at sl4p.net
> <mailto:mcoop at sl4p.net>> wrote:
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>> I was in a developing country around 20 years ago (same problems,
>> different weather… don’t mention humidity!)
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>> The US LoC / Quad VTR discussion reminded me of a bureaucratic
>> stuff-up that occurred around 1992.
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>> In that particular country – there were too many hands in the pot, so
>> that budgets often went to the ‘highest bidder’, but during one
>> particularly austere period – the purchase requisition for a number of
>> Beta SP decks and relevant spares for their first operational budget
>> was submitted.
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>> As these things do – the decision process was unusually long winded,
>> and completely void of contact with the actual users.
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>> Around 12-18 months after the requirement was flagged – the approval
>> came through.
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>> For the spares, but not the principle equipment!
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>> It took another 6-12 months to lash the morons that created that mess
>> – to find and allocate funds to buy the actual VTRs… !
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>> My open-reel history includes VR1200/2000/3000 – AVR1/2/3 –
>> VPR-1A&C/2/3/80 – RCA TR-61 & 70C – BCN and whole range of stuff at
>> VTC in Australia during the 70s and 80s.
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>> Love the conversation.
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>> *MC*
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>> /I don’t think like other people. Use it./
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>> mcoop at SL4P.net <mailto:mcoop at SL4P.net>
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