One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
I have spent the last week working on the tower and antenna for my newest station, 90.7 KUWV. The crew has made tremendous progress but there is still work to be done. My goal by the end of the day would be to have the antenna complete and line hung so that I can test […]
Today’s task: finish installing the final section of tower and start hanging the antenna. Finishing some final details…The area between the concrete pier and tower leg flange is grouted to provide some protection for this critical joint.
Today’s task is to set the first 60 feet upright and start stacking the remaining sections. A crane was brought on site to lift the lower tower sections into place. We left off yesterday with the lower three sections (60 feet) assembled on the ground and positioned near the tower base.
Day 2: The forklift arrives on site and it’s time to start moving tower sections around for assembly. RSC from Scottsbluff, NE once again provides a forklift for the job. It has started to snow pretty heavily but the crew doesn’t even bat an eye at working in these conditions.
This week I’m working with the crew from Medicine Bow Tower to assemble the tower and antenna for my new station. The tower and antenna were delivered to the site just before Christmas. The crew estimates that we should be done by Wednesday or Thursday. I’m going to stay on site until the tower is up […]
The site that I have been building will not initially be broadcasting in HD (digital) but I specified the equipment such that it would be capable of digital transmission in the future. However, I wanted to test the equipment in digital mode. To do this requires a device known as an “exporter”. I do have […]
Everything is installed in the equipment building and ready for testing. I took a few pictures of the site in ‘test’ mode. The transmitter and equipment rack…Everything is up and running!
Earlier in the week we had gone to the tower site to attempt to install a satellite dish. Unfortunately we encountered some issues mounting the post to the bolts. We came back to the site today with some additional hardware to try again. Reid and Dan start leveling the post on the mounting bolts…
This week I’m working on constructing the newest station in the Wyoming Public Media network. Today’s task is to start installing equipment in the new transmitter building. Dan Houg of KAXE observes and assists in the process. Dan starts by unboxing an uninterruptible power supply to install in the equipment rack.
This week’s task is to complete some additional work on the new station I have been busy building. Dan Houg of KAXE in Grand Rapids, Minnesota has come out for a visit to check out what’s going on and lend a hand. Today we head to the tower site to attempt to install the satellite […]
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