Final stop of the day, Gillette.At the door of the site on Antelope Butte…

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Off to my Sundance transmitter site next…Never know what you’re going to encounter on these roads…A bunch of cattle decided to occupy the road this time…

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Next stop on my network tour, Newcastle…A herd of deer crosses the road in front of me as I drive to the site…Gotta love the Wild Wild West!

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It’s the end of the summer which means it’s time to visit every single one of my transmitter sites…First up the eastern half of the state.  I started back at our Torrington site. The building and tower with a lone FM antenna bay at the top sits on the Eastern Wyoming College campus.

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The WPM Engineering department decided to take a road trip to Denver.  We visited with Mike Pappas, engineer for KUVO-FM followed by a Society of Broadcast Engineers meeting at the DirecTV Castle Rock Broadcast Center. KUVO is a highly respected jazz station in the Denver market and has one of the best sounding signals on […]

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Our Torrington translator site had been plagued with issues for quite some time.  Initially the issue was a poorly mounted antenna that literally destroyed the top section of the tower by twisting the tower leg in the wind until a number of the cross members broke.  That issue was resolved and the antenna mounted securely, […]

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I was informed late on Sunday night that we were off the air again in Rock Springs…Great…What now? The UPS at the site had been giving a failed battery indication.  I had planned to replace it but had not yet had a chance to do so.  Apparently it decided to fail entirely.  Three out of […]

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I had JUST returned to Laramie when I received a call from one of our other engineers informing me that a listener had called to report (another) outage in Rock Springs.  Great.  Time to turn right back around and make the 3 hour drive once again… Well, at least I was treated to a beautiful sunset […]

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I had brought the transmitter’s controller back to Laramie for some additional troubleshooting.  Testing revealed that the issue was not in the controller.  I spent some time looking at the schematics for the transmitter and had a theory…There was one other place where the issue could be occurring now that I had ruled out problems […]

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Earlier this week our Rock Springs transmitter went off the air.  I was out of town but sent one of our other engineers to check it out.  He wasn’t able to diagnose the issue with the main transmitter but was able to get our HD transmitter at the site on the air in analog mode […]

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