Brydn's 2003 Travel Journal - Montana: The Camera from the Black Tower

Brydn's 2003 Travel Journal - Montana: The Camera from the Black Tower


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An excellent racing day with a little trouble on the back side.


1:46pm MT, 7/28/3, The coin-op clothes wash by the motel.
Saturday and Sunday go well, at least for me. Saturday, I keep loosing the head-on signal. Some things only will be bad if you want them to be. Usually things work out to be fine. Ken gets 6 programs from the program lady. I also get six programs. I give Ken the 4 extra programs and kept two for Patrick and myself. When Brian shows up he's without one and I give him mine. So, I end up with out one after starting the video department out with twelve programs. I have Brian wrap duct tape around his camera's output cable because when he's going around the bend his camera goes from a black and white to a color picture. This works for a couple races until Rawley comes in and says we lost the head-on camera again. I put a hum buckler on Brian's line. This completely fixes the problem. According to the Judges, a bad head-on picture isn't an uncommon occurrence. Next, Ashely's signal in the back tower starts fading in and out, mostly out. I try her on the radio. I'm on the wrong channel. I'm thinking she doesn't have one. I get one for her by running to the mainline and getting one from Ken. I run back up to the roof for the race. I don't have any way to get the radio out to the tower. I ask Patrick if he can get one of the runners to take it out there. He says has hiss buddy on the second floor of the back tower with Ashley, watching the races. He call him on his cell phone. We get Ashley on the right channel and clear up the signal. The rest of the races go well, so I think anyway. About the ninth race, Rawley comes in and asks for Ashley's name. I only know her first name. That's good enough though because he's filling out a hearing form for Ashely. I don't hear why or what happened until the next day. I'm guessing it has to do with Patrick's friend sitting in the back tower. During the beginning of the last race, Ken is telling me that he will have the Deputy Sheriff come over there if Ashley doesn't settle down. I'm hoping Ken quiets down so Ashley doesn't quit before the race is over. We finish up.