One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
It was a rather grueling day today. The major project of the day was to get the STL link up and running. Unfortunately, we had discovered some additional issues yesterday with the signal path from the hospital downtown up to the tower. We first went down to the hospital to investigate whether or not there […]
Reid and I traveled to beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming yesterday. Our mission was to install a filter to alleviate some interference issues and to activate a new STL link from the hospital downtown up to the transmitter site. This link will allow us to move our satellite dish from the mountain down into town where […]
Reid went back to Pilot Hill today to finish hanging the antenna for KUWL. This is the second antenna for WPR’s two new Laramie stations that will soon be going on the air. The installation looks nice. Now that the antennas are hung we will need to connect the feedlines to them. Once that is […]
Reid and I were able to get the KUWY antenna mounted on the tower today. This was the first relatively nice day we have had in over a week in terms of wind and clouds so we decided to give it a shot. The wind was relatively calm when we started but by the time […]
Today Reid and I wrangled some cables and put the new WPR uplink dish online. The signal looks marvelous. This dish should make for a much more reliable signal to the WPR network. New dish beaming WPR to the state of Wyoming The amplifier for the new dish is currently on a temporary power feed […]
Ever have one of those days? Around 8 AM my phone rings as I am having coffee with some friends. Apparently we have lost the feed from National Public Radio and are off the air. We had just completed the process of completely switching satellite delivery systems from NPR’s old “SOSS” system to the new […]
Reid and I made an attempt today to complete the KUWL and KUWY antenna installations but after several hours determined that it was far too windy to complete the project today. We are going to try to complete the project this weekend or early next week depending on the wind conditions.
Today, Reid and I began the process of hanging new antennas on the KUWR tower for two new Laramie stations, KUWL and KUWY. These stations will serve Laramie with 24/7 Jazz and classical music respectively. The stations will be relatively low in power (about 100 watts) compared to KUWR’s 100,000 watts. I had originally hoped […]
More fun at the office today…I was sitting at my bench and suddenly noticed that my satellite receiver was no longer locked to our signal. I looked over at my spectrum analyzer and saw that ALL of the signals normally present from our satellite dish were gone! Apparently we had lost both our uplink AND […]
It was an interesting day today…I received some news about changes in the WPR engineering department. I can’t say too much at this point but more to come. –Shane
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