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Radiating good health.


most NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
 rooms have at least some radiac sets and radiac meters: generally AN/VDR-2s, UDR-13s, IM- im- a prefix, replacing in- before words beginning b, m, and p.

im- 1
pref.
Variant of in-1.
93s, and AN/PDR-75s. Normally, radiac equipment doesn't need much care, but unfortunately the equipment often gets no care. Then it doesn't work.

REMEMBERING THESE TWO TIPS WILL HELP YOUR RADIAC EQUIPMENT RADIATE ra·di·ate
v.
1. To spread out in all directions from a center.

2. To emit or be emitted as radiation.



ra
 GOOD HEALTH ...

* Don't store radiac equipment with the batteries installed. The batteries can leak (programming) leak - With a qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.  and that corrodes the battery contacts and can damage the radiac equipment itself.

* Every month take an the radiac sets and radiacmeters out of the cabinet and turn them on and make sure they're working properly. In many NBC rooms, radiac equipment isn't used for months and problems aren't spotted until the item is needed.
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Publication:PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Date:Jan 1, 2004
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