One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Reid and I went back to Copper Mountain in order to install a relay board in our GoldenEagle monitoring unit. This unit monitors the signal that is broadcast. The relay board will interface with our remote control and allow the site to tell us when we have an issue with the signal being broadcast. Another […]
There were no real issues at the site this time, but since I was in the area I decided to stop by and perform a software update on the HD Radio Equipment. On top of Antelope Butte again…
Once I had finished in Sundance I headed over to Newcastle to rewire that site as well… Relay panels re-wired…
Over the past year or so I have been rewiring the remote controls at our transmitter sites to clean up old wiring and give us more useful status and control from the sites. I had completed most of them but six sites remained. This week I set out to finish Sundance and Newcastle. At the […]
Over the past couple of days I had been receiving reports of extremely high temperatures at a site again…This time from Gillette…I decided to make the trip up to the site to check it out. Arrived on site in UW88…
The same weekend I had issues with ice in Rock Springs, we also had issues with ice at our Pilot Hill transmitter site in Laramie. I certainly had never encountered ice this severe, and apparently neither had our General Manager. Our main transmitter had folded back to approximately 18%. The other transmitters were all folding […]
This weekend I received reports of high temperatures at our Rock Springs site. I found this extremely strange since it was actually quite cold outside and snowing…The 100+ degree temperatures were actually causing equipment to shut down. Since UW88 was in the shop, I loaded my truck and headed for the site. Made it to […]
About a year ago we installed a dish at our Rawlins translator to replace an unreliable over-the-air feed from Laramie. The mounting pole for the old dish was not quite as stable as it should have been. In addition the dish was damaged over the winter and needed to be replaced. We decided to install a […]
Shouldn’t have said it was too quiet… I received a report around 12:30 on Friday afternoon that our station in Sundance was repeating the same snippet of audio over and over again. Great… I could not really do anything about this remotely so I just shut the transmitter off and hit the road for Sundance. […]
Reid and I spent this weekend installing a heater on our new uplink dish. We suffered several outages last winter when the dish filled with snow… The process involves measuring and applying heat tape, gluing insulation pads on top of the heat tape, caulking around the insulation pads and then installing the electrical wiring. It […]
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