One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Our Copper Mountain transmitter site (KUWT, Thermopolis) had been giving us a number of issues for the past few months. These issues were somewhat inconvenient to say the least while I was trying to add both an HD2 (Classical) and HD3 (Jazz) service to the site. The latest technical issue was a failed power supply…This […]
Our KUWC station in Casper, Wyoming has been broadcasting in HD for quite a while. If you aren’t familiar with HD Radio technology it allows a digital signal to be broadcast alongside the existing analog radio signal. The new digital signal can also carry additional channels of audio. KUWC had been broadcasting an HD2 signal […]
Our site on Copper Mountain experienced a failure of some HD Radio equipment. I traveled to the site to attempt to restore HD service. One dead NE-IBOC signal generator…My only real recourse is to replace the hard drive and re-load the software. The manufacturer no longer has parts available for these units.
WPR broadcasts in HD on many of its stations. One of the most exciting aspects of this technology is the ability to deliver multiple channels of content on a single FM frequency. Unfortunately there is a limited amount of digital bandwidth available for the additional channels. About 96 kbps is available for audio or data. […]
About a year or so ago we placed a new station on the air in Rawlins. I had not been satisfied with the performance of the remote control that we installed so I decided to try another model. The road to the site was still somewhat muddy and covered in snow. I was not able […]
The Federal Communications Commission recently approved up to a 10 fold increase in the digital power allowed for broadcast stations. This is a big deal, particularly for lower power broadcasters (like many of my stations) where every watt counts. I applied for permission to upgrade our Casper station. The hardware was already capable of the […]
After spending the night in Newcastle, I headed down to my site in Douglas. This site had suffered a UPS failure. It had been bypassed earlier this year but needed to be replaced to protect the equipment. I also had some minor remote control wiring to do at the site. At the site in Douglas…This […]
I spent last night in Sundance and had arranged to meet someone with a snowmobile this morning to get me into the site. This time of year the last 4 miles of road up to our site turn into a very nice groomed snow trail. My chariot awaits…
I spent all day yesterday driving to Casper and working on replacing a remote control. Today I drove up to Sundance to prepare to install the remote control I just removed from Casper. The end result of my work in Casper…A new control and monitoring screen. The new remote controls give me the ability to […]
Some of WPR’s remote control systems are getting a bit old and unreliable. As they have failed, we have upgraded remote controls at other sites and used the old remotes from those sites to repair failures. This time our Sundance site had suffered a remote control failure. Casper is one of our more critical sites […]
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