One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Since the trip to Copper Mountain on horseback had gone so well, we decided to attempt a trip to Pilot Hill in Laramie on horseback. We had another HD Radio equipment upgrade to perform with the tech from the equipment manufacturer so we headed out. After a while we arrived at the access road to […]
This has to be one for the record books…Most engineers drive to their transmitter sites in a truck. Some take a snowmobile or snow cat when a truck won’t make it through. Others can only get to their transmitter sites with a helicopter. Sometimes we just have to do things the old fashioned way out here […]
Since I happened to be in Minnesota, I hitched a ride with 3 engineering colleagues from the area who were driving to an HD Radio seminar at Harris in Quincy, IL. Much of the material was review for me but it was a good chance to get together with a number of my engineering peers from […]
Once the appropriate parts arrived, I headed to Rock Springs to do some equipment upgrades in Rock Springs. The engineer from our equipment vendor came along to assist with the installation. We had no problem getting to the site but apparently the snow had drifted a bit deeper inside the fence than I thought…I managed […]
An engineer from one of our equipment vendors arrived in town on Saturday night to assist with some HD Radio equipment upgrades. He was originally planning to be here on Friday night and start on Saturday but encountered a flight delay. After he arrived we planned to start on Sunday but apparently there were some […]
I received a call yesterday morning reporting that we were off the air in Sundance and had been for a couple of days. This was the first I had heard of the issue…The transmitter had not called me to report any issues. UW Motor Pool rented a Suburban to me since Big Red is down […]
The beginning of Big Red’s life… Yesterday I received several reports from the Casper area of issues with the HD signal. I could not come to any definite conclusions remotely so I decided to go investigate. Andrea came along for the ride.
Happy new year! 2007 was a pretty productive year engineering wise. I started with WPR in October of 2006. Here are just a few highlights from the past year… Hired Engineering Technician for KUWR Installed HD and HD2 signals on KUWR along with new digital STL Completely re-built Production Room C Cleaned up equipment racks […]
Late on Sunday night our new Jazz station (KUWL) went off the air after a power glitch at the site. The transmitter went down and stayed down. I immediately suspected either a blown fuse or tripped breaker. The only problem was that earlier on Sunday we had a sudden snowstorm. This made it extremely difficult […]
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 […]
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