One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
This week I’m working with the crew from Medicine Bow Tower to assemble the tower and antenna for my new station. The tower and antenna were delivered to the site just before Christmas. The crew estimates that we should be done by Wednesday or Thursday. I’m going to stay on site until the tower is up […]
The site that I have been building will not initially be broadcasting in HD (digital) but I specified the equipment such that it would be capable of digital transmission in the future. However, I wanted to test the equipment in digital mode. To do this requires a device known as an “exporter”. I do have […]
Everything is installed in the equipment building and ready for testing. I took a few pictures of the site in ‘test’ mode. The transmitter and equipment rack…Everything is up and running!
Earlier in the week we had gone to the tower site to attempt to install a satellite dish. Unfortunately we encountered some issues mounting the post to the bolts. We came back to the site today with some additional hardware to try again. Reid and Dan start leveling the post on the mounting bolts…
This week I’m working on constructing the newest station in the Wyoming Public Media network. Today’s task is to start installing equipment in the new transmitter building. Dan Houg of KAXE observes and assists in the process. Dan starts by unboxing an uninterruptible power supply to install in the equipment rack.
This week’s task is to complete some additional work on the new station I have been busy building. Dan Houg of KAXE in Grand Rapids, Minnesota has come out for a visit to check out what’s going on and lend a hand. Today we head to the tower site to attempt to install the satellite […]
The electrician completed a considerable amount of work yesterday and finished the final tie in of temporary electical service to my new transmitter building today. This will allow me to have lighting, heat and cooling in the building in order to begin work. Giant “extension cord” between the existing building (right) and our new transmitter building […]
Today at long last (after over 30 days of waiting) I took delivery of the transmitter for my new station. The transmitter is a Nautel NV7.5. This transmitter is capable of analog FM operation at up to 8,250 watts in analog mode and FM+HD operation at up to 6,000 watts. Nautel makes very reliable equipment […]
Earlier this week we suffered a power failure at our Rawlins transmitter site. The power was ultimately restored but unfortunately our transmitter failed to return to service. Time to mount up on snow vehicles and take a trip to the site to see what is wrong… Another engineer from the area was able to reach […]
After many many months I FINALLY have a tower and antenna for my new station! If you’ve been following the story, I recently received a building for this station as well. It’s good to finally see some tangible progress. I can’t wait to have the station constructed and on the air after almost 3 years […]
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