One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Today’s task is to set the first 60 feet upright and start stacking the remaining sections. A crane was brought on site to lift the lower tower sections into place. We left off yesterday with the lower three sections (60 feet) assembled on the ground and positioned near the tower base.
Day 2: The forklift arrives on site and it’s time to start moving tower sections around for assembly. RSC from Scottsbluff, NE once again provides a forklift for the job. It has started to snow pretty heavily but the crew doesn’t even bat an eye at working in these conditions.
This week I’m working with the crew from Medicine Bow Tower to assemble the tower and antenna for my new station. The tower and antenna were delivered to the site just before Christmas. The crew estimates that we should be done by Wednesday or Thursday. I’m going to stay on site until the tower is up […]
Earlier in the week we had gone to the tower site to attempt to install a satellite dish. Unfortunately we encountered some issues mounting the post to the bolts. We came back to the site today with some additional hardware to try again. Reid and Dan start leveling the post on the mounting bolts…
This week’s task is to complete some additional work on the new station I have been busy building. Dan Houg of KAXE in Grand Rapids, Minnesota has come out for a visit to check out what’s going on and lend a hand. Today we head to the tower site to attempt to install the satellite […]
Earlier this week we suffered a power failure at our Rawlins transmitter site. The power was ultimately restored but unfortunately our transmitter failed to return to service. Time to mount up on snow vehicles and take a trip to the site to see what is wrong… Another engineer from the area was able to reach […]
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