Shouldn’t have said it was too quiet…

I received a report around 12:30 on Friday afternoon that our station in Sundance was repeating the same snippet of audio over and over again. Great…

I could not really do anything about this remotely so I just shut the transmitter off and hit the road for Sundance. Andrea and I had just returned from a trip to Denver so I was not looking forward to going all the way back to Sundance again. At least I had some idea of what the problem was…

Once I got to the site I found that the HD Radio exporter had locked up (exactly as I had suspected). I had brought a replacement with me and just swapped out the offending unit. A reboot would probably have temporarily cured the issue but I did not want to take any chances with having the problem return.

I made it to Sundance around 1 AM and had the station back on the air around 2:30 AM. I caught a few hours of sleep in Sundance. The next morning I turned around and headed back to Laramie. All told it was a 10 hour round trip.