I was on the phone with one of my KSKO contract engineers yesterday while we grumbled through an issue with my AK Public Media trying to get the IP only mode to work, even after I disconnected the coax it would switch to look for the RF feed that was disabled after a piece of uplink gear failed at Anchorage HQ.
Anyways, as we were talking I said "Steve, as I've told other people, most days this job is fun....most of the others it's a learning experience and the remaining few.. I either laugh my ass off at the 'only in my life" days or I'd go crazy and get pissed"
There was that very cold sub zero winter day where I had a Toyo furnace in the basement stop working, and it's used to keep our pipes form freezing... I was dealing with that while on the phone with a contact in one village as I tried to remotely troubleshoot one of our FM stations that was off the air.
As I'm dealing with those two, I hear a loud screeching beep and I know what that is upstairs "holy shit, the UPS is about to die". I tell the person I've gotta go, I'll deal with the off air station and heater in a bit....
The UPS won't go into bypass mode, so I have to reroute things to other plugs elsewhere to get our transmitter, computer and satellite recievers back up.. phew I did.
Turns out the problem with our off air FM station in another village was SWR's because of snow and ice, so we limped along all winter and replaced things in the summer.
Anyways, as we were talking I said "Steve, as I've told other people, most days this job is fun....most of the others it's a learning experience and the remaining few.. I either laugh my ass off at the 'only in my life" days or I'd go crazy and get pissed"
There was that very cold sub zero winter day where I had a Toyo furnace in the basement stop working, and it's used to keep our pipes form freezing... I was dealing with that while on the phone with a contact in one village as I tried to remotely troubleshoot one of our FM stations that was off the air.
As I'm dealing with those two, I hear a loud screeching beep and I know what that is upstairs "holy shit, the UPS is about to die". I tell the person I've gotta go, I'll deal with the off air station and heater in a bit....
The UPS won't go into bypass mode, so I have to reroute things to other plugs elsewhere to get our transmitter, computer and satellite recievers back up.. phew I did.
Turns out the problem with our off air FM station in another village was SWR's because of snow and ice, so we limped along all winter and replaced things in the summer.
