One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Some of WPR’s remote control systems are getting a bit old and unreliable. As they have failed, we have upgraded remote controls at other sites and used the old remotes from those sites to repair failures. This time our Sundance site had suffered a remote control failure. Casper is one of our more critical sites […]
Wyoming Public Radio’s network infrastructure has expanded at an amazing rate in the past three years. When I started here, the only internal networking was for the automation system. Now, however, virtually every piece of equipment we bring into the plant has an Ethernet port. We have at least five different “virtual” networks running internally […]
Day 3…I had spent the first day determining what the problem was and ordering parts for overnight delivery from the manufacturer. Day 2, I received the parts from the manufacturer but one of the parts was not shipped. Today, I waited for the remaining part to arrive and would go back to the site one […]
I ordered the parts yesterday for overnight delivery and anxiously awaited for their arrival at the hotel. They arrived around 11 AM and I made my way back up to the site to start repairs. Wow…I didn’t know a transmitter being off the air qualified as a medical emergency!
Once again I found myself in Jackson to investigate an issue at our transmitter site. The transmitter had started to spontaneously drop off the air for some reason. Very odd since this is generally a very reliable transmitter. Fortunately we have an auxiliary transmitter at this site. I went to the site to investigate. The […]
Parts have arrived to repair the Rock Springs antenna array…Time to go back to the site with the tower crew and replace the top antenna bay. Plenty of activity on site as another crew installs antennas and a building for another tenant.
Recently there was a tower climber up the tower at our Rock Springs site for another tenant. The tower climber HAPPENED to look over at our antenna while he was working and discovered a large hole in the radome for our top bay. I had noticed a slight increase in reflected power but not really […]
Sheridan is the fourth site out of five to get Voice over IP. This was another site that had terrible cellular connectivity. With the move into the Central Wyoming College transmitter building it gave us the opportunity to migrate the phone connection to Voice over IP at this site as well. The final site will […]
The next site to get Voice over IP was our Thermopolis site…You may recall that I was recently at this site repairing an issue with audio dropouts. The existing cellular connection was notoriously unreliable. VoIP will provide a huge improvement at this site. Another VoIP terminal… Three down, two more to go!
The next site I visited to install Voice over IP was our Cody transmitter site. Certainly some beautiful scenery on the way down the hill… Driving down the hill… Sunset from McCullough Peak
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