One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
After my last visit to the Thermopolis site, I needed to order the appropriate equipment to make repairs. Unfortunately the failed equipment was no longer manufactured so I needed to retrofit the current equivalent replacement instead. Finally fixed! The new unit appears to have resolved the issue.
Earlier this month I had been at our Thermopolis transmitter site trying to figure out why the station would often go silent after the top of the hour ID. I think I finally found it this time! Towers atop Copper Mountain
I had to travel to our Jackson transmitter site in order to do some troubleshooting and verify the coordinates of one of our towers. Since I was in my personal vehicle (and this was an unscheduled trip) I once again had some ‘help’. Beautiful view of Jackson Hole from atop Snow King mountain
We had been having issues with our Thermopolis transmitter. At the top of the hour, occasionally audio would not return after the legal station ID. At our stations, the local station IDs are injected by the satellite receiver at each site, triggered over the satellite uplink from the studios in Laramie. I had spent a […]
I was driving around the state and needed to stop at my Gillette transmitter site in order to check out some HD Radio issues. Since I was in my own vehicle and had not really intended to stop, I had some ‘helpers’ with me. Callie and Betsy at the Gillette transmitter site KUWG, Gillette operates […]
Our Copper Mountain transmitter (91.3 KUWT, Thermopolis) is another very difficult site to access. I had received a note from an engineer installing another new station that apparently there are some RF hot spots on site. I immediately went to the site to investigate. A device called a “Narda Meter” tells the tale…Sure enough, we […]
I recently received a report from our Jackson site that there was no audio on the air. Fortunately I was able to switch to the newly repaired alternate audio link…Even though the problem was temporarily solved, however, I needed to make a trip to the site to see what was going on. There was no […]
We have a station in Sheridan atop Banner Ridge. The site is home to some absolutely beautiful scenery but can be treacherous to access. We had been having some issues with heat in the building that housed our equipment rack. Central Wyoming College operates Wyoming PBS. While they are a separate entity from Wyoming Public […]
Over the past couple of years, we have been in the process of re-wiring the remote control systems at our transmitter sites to give better information in the event of a failure. Afton was one of the last sites remaining to be re-wired, however, when we attempted to re-wire the site we found that the […]
We have a station located on Snow King mountain in Jackson Hole. This site gets a LOT of snow… As a result, the dish at the site would often fill with snow and fail during the winter months. A cover only slightly helped the situation. A heater helped significantly but there were still occasional fades. […]
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