One Broadcast Engineer's blog…
Early yesterday morning I received several reports that Jackson was off the air. The transmitter was on but there was no audio. I decided to make a trip to investigate. Apparently there was a mix of rain and heavy wet snow in the area. This wet sloppy mix filled the dish and interrupted the signal. […]
This morning around 11:30 AM we finished up the Fall 2007 WPR fundraiser. It was a great success. We made our goal in just over 50 hours on the air. Thanks to all who pledged! I’m proud to say that I’m not only the engineer, I’m also a member. If you haven’t given to your […]
Over the past week while Reid and I were in Jackson, WPR started its on-air fundraiser. Last week was a series of “challenge hours”. During the challenge hour week we are not on the air continuously asking for money. Instead we ask people to call in during certain hours with a pledge which is matched […]
It was a rather grueling day today. The major project of the day was to get the STL link up and running. Unfortunately, we had discovered some additional issues yesterday with the signal path from the hospital downtown up to the tower. We first went down to the hospital to investigate whether or not there […]
Reid and I traveled to beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming yesterday. Our mission was to install a filter to alleviate some interference issues and to activate a new STL link from the hospital downtown up to the transmitter site. This link will allow us to move our satellite dish from the mountain down into town where […]
Reid went back to Pilot Hill today to finish hanging the antenna for KUWL. This is the second antenna for WPR’s two new Laramie stations that will soon be going on the air. The installation looks nice. Now that the antennas are hung we will need to connect the feedlines to them. Once that is […]
Reid and I were able to get the KUWY antenna mounted on the tower today. This was the first relatively nice day we have had in over a week in terms of wind and clouds so we decided to give it a shot. The wind was relatively calm when we started but by the time […]
Today Reid and I wrangled some cables and put the new WPR uplink dish online. The signal looks marvelous. This dish should make for a much more reliable signal to the WPR network. New dish beaming WPR to the state of Wyoming The amplifier for the new dish is currently on a temporary power feed […]
Ever have one of those days? Around 8 AM my phone rings as I am having coffee with some friends. Apparently we have lost the feed from National Public Radio and are off the air. We had just completed the process of completely switching satellite delivery systems from NPR’s old “SOSS” system to the new […]
Reid and I made an attempt today to complete the KUWL and KUWY antenna installations but after several hours determined that it was far too windy to complete the project today. We are going to try to complete the project this weekend or early next week depending on the wind conditions.
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