One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Reid and I made an attempt today to complete the KUWL and KUWY antenna installations but after several hours determined that it was far too windy to complete the project today. We are going to try to complete the project this weekend or early next week depending on the wind conditions.
Today, Reid and I began the process of hanging new antennas on the KUWR tower for two new Laramie stations, KUWL and KUWY. These stations will serve Laramie with 24/7 Jazz and classical music respectively. The stations will be relatively low in power (about 100 watts) compared to KUWR’s 100,000 watts. I had originally hoped […]
More fun at the office today…I was sitting at my bench and suddenly noticed that my satellite receiver was no longer locked to our signal. I looked over at my spectrum analyzer and saw that ALL of the signals normally present from our satellite dish were gone! Apparently we had lost both our uplink AND […]
It was an interesting day today…I received some news about changes in the WPR engineering department. I can’t say too much at this point but more to come. –Shane
Reid and I headed for Rawlins today to work on a satellite dish. We seem to be doing a lot of work with dishes in some form or another lately! A few weeks ago, Larry and Reid had installed a dish at our Rawlins translator site to replace an unreliable over-the-air pickup from Laramie. This […]
Today I completed the final step of installing a new backup generator at the Pilot Hill transmitter site for KUWR. Over the past few weeks I had electricians install the unit and plumbers route the fuel line to it. The last remaining step was a startup by a dealer for warranty purposes. The previous generator […]
A month or so ago I ordered a new uplink dish and amplifier for WPR. Our existing uplink dish and amplifier are well past their useful life. They will serve as an OK backup system but eventually the amplifier will die and the dish will deteriorate beyond usability. In addition, parts for the existing uplink […]
I spent pretty much the entire day today bringing WPR’s Rock Springs transmitter back to life. This transmitter had been off the air since late February. Normally the station runs at 30,000 watts with 12,000 watts of transmitter power output into a 5 bay antenna. The station had been running at 1,250 watts with a […]
This past weekend I decided to finish installing some Uninterruptible Power Supply units at my transmitter site. During the course of this installation I looked up at the incoming power feed to the building and discovered some extremely serious deterioration of the wiring. The copper was exposed, discolored and corroded for about 6″ where the […]
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