One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
After finding the issues with our STL link on the last visit, we arranged to hang the receive antenna at a better tower location where it has a good view of town. We were given permission to hang it near the top of the second tower at the site.The first thing that we discovered was […]
Today I visited the KUWR transmitter site to do some re-wiring. This site broadcasts KUWR, KUWR-HD/HD2, KUWL and KUWY. A low power auxiliary transmitter is also on site for KUWR. With the recent installation of the new stations some drastic re-wiring of the remote needed to be done. This was one of the last days […]
As I mentioned in my previous post I had received a call from a listener reporting an outage of our HD and HD2 signals in Casper. I thanked them for the report and made the 3 hour drive to Casper to investigate. While I was en-route to Casper I discovered that Douglas was down as well! […]
Reid and I spent Saturday afternoon and evening putting the final touches on KUWL and KUWY. We have been working on these stations for the past few months or so. Today we spent from 1 PM until about 3 AM making the final push to get them on the air. Antennas for KUWL and KUWY–Hung […]
I have spent the past couple of days on the road reinstalling HD Radio equipment. Sheridan, Gilette and Sundance had all been without HD signals for some time due to equipment failure. In addition, Sheridan apparently had a satellite receiver failure much like Rock Springs! Yesterday afternoon I left Laramie for Sheridan. It took about […]
I made a trip to Douglas this afternoon to restore the HD signal which had been off the air for quite some time due to equipment failure. Douglas Transmitter After replacing the HD exciter all was well and the HD signal was back on the air. When I arrived back at the Laramie apparently the […]
Reid and I spent the past few days traveling and working on a number of projects. Our final destination was Jackson but we checked out several issues in Rawlins and Rock Springs during this trip as well. This time he actually got to take some pictures of me rather than the other way around. 🙂 […]
I spent some more time working on KUWL and KUWY this evening. Reid had finished cleaning up the transmission lines into the building and I started working on the remote control. As the sun set it started to snow up on the mountain. You have to keep a close eye on the weather here in […]
Today Larry and I headed for Torrington to install a satellite dish. This translator (like Rawlins) had previously been fed over the air from 91.9, KUWR. As with Rawlins, it is quite a stretch for the 91.9 KUWR signal to reach Torrington reliably. The satellite feed should ensure that the signal does not fade due […]
Reid and I spent some more time working on the two new Laramie stations today. I was able to get the transmitters mounted in the equipment rack and Reid was able to finish connecting the cables to the antennas. The timeline has been pushed back a bit more than we would have liked but we […]
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