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Posted in February 23rd, 2011
I received a report that our new Riverton translator was off the air. Apparently it was “motorboating”. When I got close enough to hear what was going on, it sounded like the same little snippet of audio had gotten “stuck” somehow. I tried to access the site in the truck but needed to take a […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2011
The station has been on the air for the past couple days and it’s our last day on site…Constrution is for the most part complete aside from some physical site details that the contractors will be taking care of once the ground thaws a bit. Ben, Reid and myself clean up the site and get […]
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Posted in February 17th, 2011
Now that the building is in place, it’s time to finish any wiring that was not completed before the building was brought to site. “Luna” joins us on site…
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Posted in February 15th, 2011
While working on my new transmitter site, I received notice that we were off the air at our Buffalo transmitter site. The road to the site is blocked by a large snow bank…Fortunately I was able to maneuver the truck around it to access the site.
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Posted in February 14th, 2011
Over the past few months we’ve been “staging” a transmitter building in Laramie while simultaneously building a tower site in Eastern Wyoming. The building is complete and today it gets delivered from Laramie to the tower site. The building is loaded with a crane onto the trailer in Laramie…Ready to head to the site!
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Posted in February 9th, 2011
Today’s task was to finish up the other half of the tie line wiring I started yesterday. The box at the top is the remote control…Next is an equipment block for connections to the remote control. Finally, at the bottom, is the other end of the connections I wired up yesterday.
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Posted in February 4th, 2011
Today’s task was to do some additional work on the building before hauling it up to the transmitter site. I decided to wire up a “tie line” between the miscellaneous sensors in the building and the equipment rack which houses the remote control for the site. Starting the process of connecting the wires to the […]
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Posted in February 1st, 2011
Last week while at the new tower site for Lingle, I received a report that our Casper HD2 and HD3 services (Classical and Jazz) were off the air. We have a number of faithful listeners to these services so I drove to the Casper site to attempt repairs. Once I arrived, I found the importer […]
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Posted in January 28th, 2011
I have spent the last week working on the tower and antenna for my newest station, 90.7 KUWV. The crew has made tremendous progress but there is still work to be done. My goal by the end of the day would be to have the antenna complete and line hung so that I can test […]
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Posted in January 27th, 2011
Today’s task: finish installing the final section of tower and start hanging the antenna. Finishing some final details…The area between the concrete pier and tower leg flange is grouted to provide some protection for this critical joint.
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