One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
We seem to have a theme here lately–Another possible satellite receiver issue in Evanston. This site has a relatively small dish so it does not surprise me too much that it might have blown off point. The whole area is coated in a pretty heavy layer of snow.
No sooner did I restore service in Pinedale than I received a report of an outage in Afton. It is possible this may have been related to the satellite bandwidth switch as well but this site did initially seem fine after the switch. Quite possibly another receiver failure. The Polaris has easily made it through […]
I had recently upgraded the bandwidth on our satellite network. This required sending a command to all of our satellite receivers to remotely switch to the new bandwidth. The risk was that the receivers might not follow the command to switch and require a trip to manually reset. All went well except for my receive […]
Off to Jackson–The manufacturer of our HD Radio equipment had asked me to replace a component as a preventative measure. After one failed attempt late yesterday I made it up the hill without issue in the daylight. The snow up here is pretty deep but I’ve seen it deeper in years past.
I had done a good amount of work on the cooling system at our transmitter site in Gillette–Last time I was there I noticed a relay that had failed. I finally had the opportunity to get back to the site and install the replacement. While I probably could have made it up to the site […]
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