Rain in AM
Took family to SS & church. The floor mikes all work for the PA and radio, but we couldn’t get the M-20 ceiling mike to operate. The S-C amplifier seemed to operate satisfactorily, but both it and the Altec had to be run at higher gain settings than those we used before. Took the M-20 home and carefully measured the voltages on the tube in the mike but could find no real basis for its not operating.
JAH went home w/ Winky Bliss for the afternoon.
Started for PSC with all at 4:45 PM, had a flat on the LR, an old snow tire from the Willys I junked, near the 334 Mill Street Jenney Station in Belmont, where I had it changed after driving on it for 1/2-mile; the lug wrench was gone. A 1/2-ton pick-up truck in the station had 2 rolls of almost new carpeting that the attendant said was to be burned tomorrow, so I took one roll.
When I connected the M-20 into the WE preamp, it operated, but it still would not when we put it in place and connected it into Cable A. Alden Cheever (who came in early!) and I then put it into Cable B, & it still didn’t work. This must mean that the cabling between the mike & preamp is ineffective. I left word with Ed Poor to see to it he would ask Dave Nelson to come in & try to track down the faulty cable.
Spoke with John Zvara re: getting an outlet box & BX to the old amplifier position from the ceiling over the double doors at the front of the stairs. He will pass it to the contractor, We will use it to connect in a speaker.
DCH has fallen for a girl from Newton, and wants to use a car to pick her up on this coming Saturday night for an affair at Tremont Temple. He gets ugly when he can’t get his way on all such matters.