One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
I recently had the privilege of putting yet another new station on the air. This one is 88.5 KZUW. It carries our “Classical Wyoming” network and will serve the Rock Springs/Reliance/Green River area with 24/7 classical music. We launched this service in Laramie on 88.5 KUWY and 91.9 KUWR-HD2 about a year and a half […]
Time to hit the road again…Reid and I drove up to Thermopolis to check on a couple of isssues. Much to our surprise we discovered that our generator room was full of snow…and the genset still ran! Reid stands in front of the access panel to the genset room…Yikes! Looks like it snuck in through […]
Once Ben and I had finished in Newcastle, we continued on to Buffalo to repair an issue with the HD Radio equipment. Much of this equipment is computer based and can be prone to failure unless kept in an absolutely pristine environment free of dust, heat and power glitches. Even that is not enough to […]
I had been receiving reports from our Newcastle site of issues with the HD signal…Since I was able to verify that the signal was in fact actually operating properly, it appeared that we had an issue with our monitoring equipment. This monitoring equipment must be programmed correctly and have the proper RF level fed into it in […]
What was I saying about the time of year to deal with translator issues? No sooner did I finish with Worland I started receiving complaints about our Evanston translator. Reid and I headed to the site to check it out. When we got to town we weren’t immediately hearing a problem, but we started to […]
Apparently it is the time of year to deal with translator issues…We received a number of reports that our Worland translator was performing poorly. I had never been to the site before (one of the last that I had never actually visited). Once we drove into Worland, we could clearly hear that the translator was […]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we are replacing the translator in Rawlins with a full service station (KUWI). Today’s task was to bring the antenna bays to the site for installation by the tower crew which will be scheduled soon… Unpacking the antenna bays to load into the Argo…
We had received a number of reports that our Dubois translator was off the air. This site had recently been switched to a satellite audio feed to replace a microwave link that was being decommissioned… The site is on a location called “Windy Ridge”. It lives up to its name! On this particular day, gusts […]
In addition to the Rawlins station, we are also building a new station in Rock Springs. We decided to take an opportunity to visit the site, bring some parts for the new station and show our new Engineering Tech around another transmitter site. The 5 bay FM antenna at the top is ours…14 kw TPO, […]
WPR has several new stations in the works, including a translator replacement in Rawlins. The station replacing the translator in Rawlins will be KUWI…2000 watts on 89.9 FM. This will be a huge improvement from the current 250 watt translator on 89.1 which is subject to interference from a station in Casper. We are using […]
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