One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Our Copper Mountain transmitter (91.3 KUWT, Thermopolis) is another very difficult site to access. I had received a note from an engineer installing another new station that apparently there are some RF hot spots on site. I immediately went to the site to investigate. A device called a “Narda Meter” tells the tale…Sure enough, we […]
I recently received a report from our Jackson site that there was no audio on the air. Fortunately I was able to switch to the newly repaired alternate audio link…Even though the problem was temporarily solved, however, I needed to make a trip to the site to see what was going on. There was no […]
We have a station in Sheridan atop Banner Ridge. The site is home to some absolutely beautiful scenery but can be treacherous to access. We had been having some issues with heat in the building that housed our equipment rack. Central Wyoming College operates Wyoming PBS. While they are a separate entity from Wyoming Public […]
Over the past couple of years, we have been in the process of re-wiring the remote control systems at our transmitter sites to give better information in the event of a failure. Afton was one of the last sites remaining to be re-wired, however, when we attempted to re-wire the site we found that the […]
We have a station located on Snow King mountain in Jackson Hole. This site gets a LOT of snow… As a result, the dish at the site would often fill with snow and fail during the winter months. A cover only slightly helped the situation. A heater helped significantly but there were still occasional fades. […]
I recently had the privilege of putting yet another new station on the air. This one is 88.5 KZUW. It carries our “Classical Wyoming” network and will serve the Rock Springs/Reliance/Green River area with 24/7 classical music. We launched this service in Laramie on 88.5 KUWY and 91.9 KUWR-HD2 about a year and a half […]
Time to hit the road again…Reid and I drove up to Thermopolis to check on a couple of isssues. Much to our surprise we discovered that our generator room was full of snow…and the genset still ran! Reid stands in front of the access panel to the genset room…Yikes! Looks like it snuck in through […]
Once Ben and I had finished in Newcastle, we continued on to Buffalo to repair an issue with the HD Radio equipment. Much of this equipment is computer based and can be prone to failure unless kept in an absolutely pristine environment free of dust, heat and power glitches. Even that is not enough to […]
I had been receiving reports from our Newcastle site of issues with the HD signal…Since I was able to verify that the signal was in fact actually operating properly, it appeared that we had an issue with our monitoring equipment. This monitoring equipment must be programmed correctly and have the proper RF level fed into it in […]
What was I saying about the time of year to deal with translator issues? No sooner did I finish with Worland I started receiving complaints about our Evanston translator. Reid and I headed to the site to check it out. When we got to town we weren’t immediately hearing a problem, but we started to […]
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