About a year or so ago we placed a new station on the air in Rawlins.  I had not been satisfied with the performance of the remote control that we installed so I decided to try another model.

The road to the site was still somewhat muddy and covered in snow.  I was not able to make it all the way in with the truck so I had to walk the last bit up to the tower. You can see it in the upper-right hand corner of this picture.  It’s still quite far away from this point but within walking distance…

Made it up to the building after a long walk…

The tower…Our antenna is the 3 bay FM near the bottom.  Another FM station has a 4 bay antenna near the top.

I had to actually install the remote INSIDE the transmitter at this site.  It worked out just fine since all of the things I need to monitor and control are available right inside the transmitter anyway.

Using a laptop to program the remote control…

Your mountain trotting engineer, satisfied with another job complete.

Now time to get back down off the mountain…Quite a hike back to the truck.  At least it’s downhill!

The new remote is a CircuitWerkes SiCon 8.  List price on the unit is around $1,299.  It can be purchased through MW Persons and Associates (www.mwpersons.com).  I have been extremely happy with it for this particular application.  Quite a capable little unit for the price and thus far I have had only one failure (easily resolved) due to a surge on the phone line.