Next stop, Buffalo…Nice view out the hotel room window…

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Next stop, Banner Ridge outside of Sheridan.It’s extremely foggy up here today!  Can’t see a thing!

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Final stop of the day, Gillette.At the door of the site on Antelope Butte…

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Off to my Sundance transmitter site next…Never know what you’re going to encounter on these roads…A bunch of cattle decided to occupy the road this time…

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Next stop on my network tour, Newcastle…A herd of deer crosses the road in front of me as I drive to the site…Gotta love the Wild Wild West!

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It’s the end of the summer which means it’s time to visit every single one of my transmitter sites…First up the eastern half of the state.  I started back at our Torrington site. The building and tower with a lone FM antenna bay at the top sits on the Eastern Wyoming College campus.

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The WPM Engineering department decided to take a road trip to Denver.  We visited with Mike Pappas, engineer for KUVO-FM followed by a Society of Broadcast Engineers meeting at the DirecTV Castle Rock Broadcast Center. KUVO is a highly respected jazz station in the Denver market and has one of the best sounding signals on […]

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Our Torrington translator site had been plagued with issues for quite some time.  Initially the issue was a poorly mounted antenna that literally destroyed the top section of the tower by twisting the tower leg in the wind until a number of the cross members broke.  That issue was resolved and the antenna mounted securely, […]

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I was informed late on Sunday night that we were off the air again in Rock Springs…Great…What now? The UPS at the site had been giving a failed battery indication.  I had planned to replace it but had not yet had a chance to do so.  Apparently it decided to fail entirely.  Three out of […]

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Andrea and I had spent the night in Denver and decided to see a few sights on her birthday weekend. First up, BD’s Mongolian Grill!  If you’ve never been to a Mongolian Grill restaurant before, it’s quite the experience!  You pick your (raw) food including noodles, meats and veggies from a buffet.  Next you pick […]

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