One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
After discovering the failure in Buffalo yesterday, I decided to come back over the weekend to fix it. The problem was a failed power supply in the satellite receiver. It was fairly simple to fix…I replaced the entire satellite receiver rather than replacing the failed power supply in the field. This required reprogramming the replacement […]
A month or so ago, our GoldenEagle monitoring unit in Sheridan developed a problem…It would run for a period of time and then shut down spontaneously. I pulled the unit and brought it back to Laramie. It ran on the bench for several weeks without an issue so I decided to bring it back out […]
During our last trip to Powell, we discovered that the cable on the satellite dish had started to deteriorate. While the cable was still functioning, it could eventually fail if water penetrated into the cable. Back at the site again…A bit snowier this time!
Once we had finished in Powell we headed over to Afton. The plan was to rewire this site as well. We stayed in a really neat little place that rented cabins by the night.
If you have been following my blog, you might recall that I have been spending some time rewiring sites to provide a bit more detailed remote monitoring and control. Powell is one of the last on the list…Afton, Rock Springs and Douglas still remain to be completed. Made it to the site…UW88 stands tall next […]
Reid and I went back to Copper Mountain in order to install a relay board in our GoldenEagle monitoring unit. This unit monitors the signal that is broadcast. The relay board will interface with our remote control and allow the site to tell us when we have an issue with the signal being broadcast. Another […]
There were no real issues at the site this time, but since I was in the area I decided to stop by and perform a software update on the HD Radio Equipment. On top of Antelope Butte again…
Once I had finished in Sundance I headed over to Newcastle to rewire that site as well… Relay panels re-wired…
Over the past year or so I have been rewiring the remote controls at our transmitter sites to clean up old wiring and give us more useful status and control from the sites. I had completed most of them but six sites remained. This week I set out to finish Sundance and Newcastle. At the […]
Over the past couple of days I had been receiving reports of extremely high temperatures at a site again…This time from Gillette…I decided to make the trip up to the site to check it out. Arrived on site in UW88…
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