One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Nothing like trying something new for the first time… We had ordered several satellite dishes for various purposes. My assistant had decided that he wanted to tackle putting one of them together and aiming it. He had never assembled one of these dishes or aimed one before so I told him to go for it. […]
Some time between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon we suffered a failure of our remote control for KUWR. KUWR is the flagship station for Wyoming Public Radio and is located here in Laramie, Wyoming. Most of our transmitters use a dialup phone line for remote control. KUWR uses a radio data link between the studios […]
Of course after one problem is fixed several more spring up… Our station in Pinedale did not come back up after this afternoon’s service outage and the remote control would not answer the telephone line. After confirming with a local engineer that it was indeed off the air, I sent him to the site. He […]
My assistant and I moved the power supply for our satellite uplink amplifier down to the uplink rack in engineering this afternoon. It is now on emergency power. Fortunately, we found a spare cable run between engineering and the uplink dish. This cable run was able to handle the output from the power supply without […]
The satellite uplink went down AGAIN at about 3 PM this afternoon during another major thunderstorm. The problem? A tripped ground fault current interrupt on the outlet that the power supply for the amplifier was plugged into. Once I reset the GFCI I verified that our satellite carrier was back up and sent commands to […]
This is starting to get ridiculous… At 7 AM this morning I heard what I thought was an automation glitch. There was no audio on the air after the top of the hour automated legal ID. I had just dropped my wife off at work and immediately headed for the station. The glitch was due […]
It’s been one of those days… First of all, I went against my better judgment by uttering the phrase “Why yes, it HAS been pretty quiet in terms of problems lately…” earlier this morning. Our General Manager was commenting on the fact that he had not heard anything about major issues or outages across the […]
My assistant and I decided it was time to do some wiring cleanup around the studios. The equipment rack that holds our entire uplink chain was a rats nest of wiring so we decided to start there. In addition, the rack was not entirely on emergency UPS and generator power so we wanted to correct […]
It’s amazing how quickly the plans for a day can change on a moment’s notice. I had finished up a bunch of little projects around the studios yesterday and was planning to do the same today. I generally spend most of my time in Laramie but help out around the network as needed. We received […]
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