One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Over the past year or so I have been in the process of replacing all of the battery backup systems at sites with brand new UPS units. The previous battery backup consisted of a large tractor battery and an interter typically used for photovoltaic systems. These systems worked well but the batteries were fairly bulky and […]
Reid and I went to the Gillette transmitter site to do some routine work earlier this week. Unfortunately, the blower motor on the transmitter failed when we went to restart it. It had been starting to get noisy but was still working. This time, however, it failed completely and took the transmitter off the air. […]
Once we finished in Buffalo we headed back to Gillette. The next day we headed up to Sheridan to do some re-wiring at that site as well. Reid cleans up some wiring inside the shack
Reid and I started a trip around the state this week…We based ourselves in Gillette but intended to visit Buffalo, Sheridan, Sundance and Newcastle on this trip. The first stop was Buffalo…We made it to the site and finished all of our rewiring. In the process, however, a major thunderstorm rolled through the area. It […]
Our Rock Springs site had been reporting extremely high temperatures. This site did not have any effective cooling. It did have an air inlet but no real air exhaust aside from a sealed path through the main transmitter. The ideal solution would be to install some active cooling at the site but funds do not […]
Recently the power company decided that the transformers feeding our Pilot Hill transmitter site were too small for the load. There had not been any failures yet but they were concerned about issues in the future. I had never seen a swap like this done before so it was quite fun to watch. The power […]
Once I had finished in Jackson, I headed to Thermopolis via Dubois. The Thermopolis transmitter is actually located on Copper Mountain. No horses necessary this time! The road was clear and dry. Made it to the site! Considerably less snow, wind and ice this time…
Virtually every single piece of equipment in a broadcast chain these days is a computer. Given that fact, every one of those computers seems to need software (and occasionaly hardware) upgrades from time to time. This can be difficult when those computers are located on mountaintops but it has become a large part of maintaining […]
After the tornado and thunderstorm excitement, it was time to start assessing the status of our network. Even though Laramie had been hit the hardest, various other areas of the state had also been hit with severe thunderstorms. I received a report that our Lander translator was off the air. Attempts to restore it remotely […]
The generator at our Laramie transmitter site ran out of fuel after 9 hours of continuous operation. We needed to get fuel to the site but heavy rains and snow had made things quite slick… Reid went up first in his truck to see if we could even get up the road to the site. Apparently […]
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