One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
After the tornado and thunderstorm excitement, it was time to start assessing the status of our network. Even though Laramie had been hit the hardest, various other areas of the state had also been hit with severe thunderstorms. I received a report that our Lander translator was off the air. Attempts to restore it remotely […]
The generator at our Laramie transmitter site ran out of fuel after 9 hours of continuous operation. We needed to get fuel to the site but heavy rains and snow had made things quite slick… Reid went up first in his truck to see if we could even get up the road to the site. Apparently […]
On Thursday, May 22nd a pair of tornados ripped through the Laramie area. This is an EXTREMELY rare event due to the terrain. My assistant and I were still on the road, returning from a trip to several transmitter sites in the Western part of the state. We were out of cellular coverage but heard […]
Reid and I have been spending a lot of time working on ‘reliability’ projects lately. The most recent was installing an alternate audio feed to the Jackson transmitter site. In the past, the satellite downlink on Snow King mountain has failed due to heavy snowfall. A heater seemed to help the issue but we wanted […]
Last winter just before we installed an STL receive antenna at our Jackson transmitter site, we discovered that another station had installed some posts on the site and sliced right through our satellite dish cable. We had to install a temporary cable. Unfortunately by the time we discovered the issue it was too late in […]
Last weekend I made a trip to Gillette and Casper to remove GoldenEagle units in preparation for some upgrades. This weekend I went to Pinedale and Jackson to remove the rest that we have installed so far. We purchased nine of these units but so far have only installed five of them. I was easily […]
We have been installing a monitoring box at our transmitter sites called the “GoldenEagle HD”. This is an excellent unit that gives us a great deal of information about how the analog and HD signals are performing. It is capable of monitoring not only our own signal but the signals of other stations in the […]
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