One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Once the appropriate parts arrived, I headed to Rock Springs to do some equipment upgrades in Rock Springs. The engineer from our equipment vendor came along to assist with the installation. We had no problem getting to the site but apparently the snow had drifted a bit deeper inside the fence than I thought…I managed […]
An engineer from one of our equipment vendors arrived in town on Saturday night to assist with some HD Radio equipment upgrades. He was originally planning to be here on Friday night and start on Saturday but encountered a flight delay. After he arrived we planned to start on Sunday but apparently there were some […]
I received a call yesterday morning reporting that we were off the air in Sundance and had been for a couple of days. This was the first I had heard of the issue…The transmitter had not called me to report any issues. UW Motor Pool rented a Suburban to me since Big Red is down […]
The beginning of Big Red’s life… Yesterday I received several reports from the Casper area of issues with the HD signal. I could not come to any definite conclusions remotely so I decided to go investigate. Andrea came along for the ride.
Happy new year! 2007 was a pretty productive year engineering wise. I started with WPR in October of 2006. Here are just a few highlights from the past year… Hired Engineering Technician for KUWR Installed HD and HD2 signals on KUWR along with new digital STL Completely re-built Production Room C Cleaned up equipment racks […]
Late on Sunday night our new Jazz station (KUWL) went off the air after a power glitch at the site. The transmitter went down and stayed down. I immediately suspected either a blown fuse or tripped breaker. The only problem was that earlier on Sunday we had a sudden snowstorm. This made it extremely difficult […]
After finding the issues with our STL link on the last visit, we arranged to hang the receive antenna at a better tower location where it has a good view of town. We were given permission to hang it near the top of the second tower at the site.The first thing that we discovered was […]
Today I visited the KUWR transmitter site to do some re-wiring. This site broadcasts KUWR, KUWR-HD/HD2, KUWL and KUWY. A low power auxiliary transmitter is also on site for KUWR. With the recent installation of the new stations some drastic re-wiring of the remote needed to be done. This was one of the last days […]
As I mentioned in my previous post I had received a call from a listener reporting an outage of our HD and HD2 signals in Casper. I thanked them for the report and made the 3 hour drive to Casper to investigate. While I was en-route to Casper I discovered that Douglas was down as well! […]
Reid and I spent Saturday afternoon and evening putting the final touches on KUWL and KUWY. We have been working on these stations for the past few months or so. Today we spent from 1 PM until about 3 AM making the final push to get them on the air. Antennas for KUWL and KUWY–Hung […]
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