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106.9 transmitter problems??

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ContinuousWave

The Eagle seems to be having problems with its Splendora transmitter site. Carrier keeps dropping off the air. Noticed it yesterday but wasn't sure if it was the STL.
 
I believe they are still feeding KGLK with a T1, so wouldn’t surprise me if it is STL related. With the lack of AT&T techs that both do T1 repair and work out of the Splendora CO, you’re probably looking at weeks for a repair.
 
tb_ said:
I believe they are still feeding KGLK with a T1, so wouldn’t surprise me if it is STL related. With the lack of AT&T techs that both do T1 repair and work out of the Splendora CO, you’re probably looking at weeks for a repair.
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A T1? I thought those were fazed out. Here in Atlanta we have some "simulated" T1s for legacy equipment, but there are very few real T1's left as AT&T has been decommissioning copper as fast as they can put in those fiber drops to the buildings.
 
BarryATL said:
A T1? I thought those were fazed out. Here in Atlanta we have some "simulated" T1s for legacy equipment, but there are very few real T1's left as AT&T has been decommissioning copper as fast as they can put in those fiber drops to the buildings.
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Usually the same here in Houston, too… complete with analog POTS lines costing nearly $800/mo to get people off of them. Just not sure if that has spread to the rural wire centers like Splendora, though.
 
tb_ said:
Usually the same here in Houston, too… complete with analog POTS lines costing nearly $800/mo to get people off of them. Just not sure if that has spread to the rural wire centers like Splendora, though.
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At my church we need a T1 for our old Mitel PBX (I have enough spare parts and phones for the next century). AT&T stopped providing T1 service and I did not want to spend money on an after market card that will talk to a different format. So, we now have a simulated T1 from Comcast/Xfinity for 1/3 of what we were paying AT&T.
 
ISDN is headed the same way... I had an office 10 years ago in New Braunfels that had a T1 but AT&T offered a special on ISDN PRI... Cut the cost by half! The office is now using Cisco IP phones...
 
ContinuousWave said:
The Eagle seems to be having problems with its Splendora transmitter site. Carrier keeps dropping off the air. Noticed it yesterday but wasn't sure if it was the STL.
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STLs don't cause transmitters to drop off the air, technical/electrical problems might.
If a transmitter has a feature to shut off when the feed goes down though, nice.

Why not just use internet streaming to feed it? If you use 320 KBPS it's not bad.
 
Cool.

You mentioned interlocks... That reminds me of this crazy story I heard several years back about an owner who was LMAing their FM station but was having transmitter problems. They needed the money, so the station had to be on so they could get paid by the renter... So the owner did what anyone would do, turned on the station's transmitter without the interlocks, caused a fire and burned up the antenna and coax cable.
So it literally turned into a blowtorch, and they had to pay extra expenses for the antenna and cable replacement.
 
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