One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
The same weekend I had issues with ice in Rock Springs, we also had issues with ice at our Pilot Hill transmitter site in Laramie. I certainly had never encountered ice this severe, and apparently neither had our General Manager. Our main transmitter had folded back to approximately 18%. The other transmitters were all folding […]
This weekend I received reports of high temperatures at our Rock Springs site. I found this extremely strange since it was actually quite cold outside and snowing…The 100+ degree temperatures were actually causing equipment to shut down. Since UW88 was in the shop, I loaded my truck and headed for the site. Made it to […]
About a year ago we installed a dish at our Rawlins translator to replace an unreliable over-the-air feed from Laramie. The mounting pole for the old dish was not quite as stable as it should have been. In addition the dish was damaged over the winter and needed to be replaced. We decided to install a […]
Shouldn’t have said it was too quiet… I received a report around 12:30 on Friday afternoon that our station in Sundance was repeating the same snippet of audio over and over again. Great… I could not really do anything about this remotely so I just shut the transmitter off and hit the road for Sundance. […]
Reid and I spent this weekend installing a heater on our new uplink dish. We suffered several outages last winter when the dish filled with snow… The process involves measuring and applying heat tape, gluing insulation pads on top of the heat tape, caulking around the insulation pads and then installing the electrical wiring. It […]
As I was driving back to Laramie from Jackson, I noticed that our Rock Springs station was silent. I went to the site and was greeted by a HUGE herd of elk on the site of the hill. One of them had antlers larger than I had ever seen on a wild animal. Once I […]
I saw a sight recently that every engineer DREADS seeing… We had received a report that our signal in Riverton was off the air and had been for quite some time. Since this is just a translator we do not have any direct monitoring of it and rely on listener reports to tell us if […]
Now that the tower in Douglas is back up, it is time to get our antenna put back on the tower. Since hanging an antenna is a fairly difficult process, Reid and I invited our Program Director, Roger Adams to accompany us. Reid climbs to the top of the tower to make some initial preparations
Wyoming Public Radio recently brought journalist and author Susan Stamberg to Jackson Hole. Susan is heard frequently on National Public Radio and was one of the original hosts for the afternoon news show ‘All Things Considered’. I was on hand to provide technical support and sound reinforcement for the event. The event went well and […]
At the end of April (while I was on vacation) we suffered a tower collapse in Douglas. Several days ago I was informed that the tower had been rebuilt. Finally we can re-hang the antenna where it belongs and get back up to full power. I decided to go to the site with Reid to […]
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