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primativeradgod
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Guess some of those thunderstorms we dealt with this afternoon/evening got the best of WSNE-FM. Looks like WJAR-TV (NBC 10) is out too.
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TXengineer
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Rehoboth lost power on Pine St. which knocked out
WNAC, WWBB, WJAR, WSNE, and WPRI.
WPRI's generator kicks on very quickly and with the solid state transmitter
their outage wasn't long.
WNAC, WWBB, WJAR, WSNE, and WPRI.
WPRI's generator kicks on very quickly and with the solid state transmitter
their outage wasn't long.
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BoardModerator
Guest
Re: They all have generators!!
The equipment has to go on UPS before it goes to generator, maybe their batteries are bad? Or they have a bad transfer switch?
> Perhaps someone hasn't been maintaining and exercising them?
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The equipment has to go on UPS before it goes to generator, maybe their batteries are bad? Or they have a bad transfer switch?
> Perhaps someone hasn't been maintaining and exercising them?
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liveallnite
Guest
> WWBB was off for a while as well. I was able to hear 93.3
> WNHW in NH, a WSHU translator in CT, 101.5 WWHQ in NH, and
> WPDH in Poughkeepsie.
So if we could keep the off the air we could hear all these stations?
Hmmmm
> WNHW in NH, a WSHU translator in CT, 101.5 WWHQ in NH, and
> WPDH in Poughkeepsie.
So if we could keep the off the air we could hear all these stations?
Hmmmm
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kzrockwell
Guest
Re: They all have generators!!
I know at our station and transmitter the "mighty " diesel generators get excersized and maintained regularly, we get knocked off street power quite a bit, with very little delay.Most don't even know anything happened.
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I know at our station and transmitter the "mighty " diesel generators get excersized and maintained regularly, we get knocked off street power quite a bit, with very little delay.Most don't even know anything happened.
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Les
Guest
Re: They all have generators!!
> I know at our station and transmitter the "mighty " diesel
> generators get excersized and maintained regularly, we get
> knocked off street power quite a bit, with very little
> delay.Most don't even know anything happened.
In today's "let's do it cheaper" environment it's rare to
see a backup power system properly maintained. With power
failure as rare as it is now in most parts of the country
many GM's have never visited the transmitter site and don't
know whether they have a generator or not. Of course if
your studio isn't at the transmitter site, and you care
about being off the air, you need backup power there too.
Pretty tough to get "permitted" in many cities.
As to UPS, only to back up relatively low powered critical
stuff. As, for example, the STL/TSL, remote control, any
comuters that are essential to operation. Rarely a power-hog
transmitter. In many of today's transmitter's there's a
simple little 9-volt battery that keeps the control circuits
memory and "listening" up long enough for a generator to come
up to speed when there's a failure. A good generator and
transfer switch will allow full power within a very few seconds
and most listeners/viewers barely notice.
Oh yes, I recall an incident in around 1976 when there was a
strike at WPRI and management was running evrything. There
was a power failure in Rehoboth with management on duty at the
transmitter site. The generator came up and ran for about
15-minutes then stopped. Problem was, nobody had been checking
the fuel and it was all gone. Then they got a fuel truck out
there but the union driver refused to cross the picket line.
They played hell trying to find a non-union fuel supplier at
about midnight!
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Appoint a special prosecutor NOW! For any imagined offense by anybody. The trial lawyers need the work; they multiply like rats!</P>
> I know at our station and transmitter the "mighty " diesel
> generators get excersized and maintained regularly, we get
> knocked off street power quite a bit, with very little
> delay.Most don't even know anything happened.
In today's "let's do it cheaper" environment it's rare to
see a backup power system properly maintained. With power
failure as rare as it is now in most parts of the country
many GM's have never visited the transmitter site and don't
know whether they have a generator or not. Of course if
your studio isn't at the transmitter site, and you care
about being off the air, you need backup power there too.
Pretty tough to get "permitted" in many cities.
As to UPS, only to back up relatively low powered critical
stuff. As, for example, the STL/TSL, remote control, any
comuters that are essential to operation. Rarely a power-hog
transmitter. In many of today's transmitter's there's a
simple little 9-volt battery that keeps the control circuits
memory and "listening" up long enough for a generator to come
up to speed when there's a failure. A good generator and
transfer switch will allow full power within a very few seconds
and most listeners/viewers barely notice.
Oh yes, I recall an incident in around 1976 when there was a
strike at WPRI and management was running evrything. There
was a power failure in Rehoboth with management on duty at the
transmitter site. The generator came up and ran for about
15-minutes then stopped. Problem was, nobody had been checking
the fuel and it was all gone. Then they got a fuel truck out
there but the union driver refused to cross the picket line.
They played hell trying to find a non-union fuel supplier at
about midnight!
<P ID="signature">______________
Appoint a special prosecutor NOW! For any imagined offense by anybody. The trial lawyers need the work; they multiply like rats!</P>
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TXengineer
Guest
Re: They all have generators!!
WPRI and WNAC's generators are excersised weekly and they did function correctly.
The "downtime", for off air viewers only, was slight.
WPRI and WNAC's generators are excersised weekly and they did function correctly.
The "downtime", for off air viewers only, was slight.
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