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All I can say is everything to repair the antenna and the engineering needed (order antenna, parts, structural etc...) was put in play shortly after the fire.
It WILL be back to full power on the main very soon.
 
BarryATL said:
Do you think it might be a backorder problem? Not related, but I am the building and grounds chair person for my church. I had a 15 ton HVAC unit go out last week. For the particular unit, there is a 30 week backorder wait. I am hearing stuff from all over about parts and different kinds of equipment.
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I would be surprised if they didn't have a backorder issue. I know a station that has waited over a year for a transmitter part. They should have bought a North American manufactured one but that's another thread. As stated before by Dave E.: High powered directional (greater than 1 KW) FM antennas are usually custom made. I doubt they will stay with a reduced signal because there are PPM wearers in some of the outlying counties.
 
secondchoice said:
I would be surprised if they didn't have a backorder issue. I know a station that has waited over a year for a transmitter part. They should have bought a North American manufactured one but that's another thread. As stated before by Dave E.: High powered directional (greater than 1 KW) FM antennas are usually custom made. I doubt they will stay with a reduced signal because there are PPM wearers in some of the outlying counties.
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I hear about the PPMs all the time here. How does a person sign up to be one of these people that receives the device? How do the devices work?
 
RadioDoogie said:
I hear about the PPMs all the time here. How does a person sign up to be one of these people that receives the device? How do the devices work?
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You can't sign up for it, you must be 'selected' to receive a PPM. If it just required signing up, IMO the ratings system could potentially be 'rigged' by station employees having all their friends and family apply to receive one, and keep their tuners locked on only their stations. Regarding how they work, @DavidEduardo is one solid expert here to speak to that. Others may also chime in with explanations.
 
RadioDoogie said:
I hear about the PPMs all the time here. How does a person sign up to be one of these people that receives the device? How do the devices work?
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The PPM system is a panel which mirrors on something like 21 “stratification variables” (age cells, gender, ethnicity, household income, education, county, etc). Recruitment is at the household level and all members must participate ffully or the household is kicked off. A dwelling unit/household can be on the panel for up to 24 months and is compensated.

Everyone has their own meter.

Once recruited, a household must use the meter daily and charge it every night. The meter is motion sensitive, and also knows if is “at home” or away. It registers the PPM encoding, which can be repeated as often as abou 12 time a minute a stores it, updating the base unit when in proximity or charging.

If program content is not dense enough, there is no encoding possible so stations try to avoid low passages or dead air.

There is lots of PPM info at the Nielsen website, too. Don’t use the Wikipedia article as reference. It is dated and not accurate today (Typical).
 
When I lived in Florence, SC (market #221) for about a year in the early 1990s, I was randomly selected to be an Arbitron diary participant. I want to say the participant period was for more than one week but not a full month, and they didn't renew anyone after that time period.
 
jabba17 said:
When I lived in Florence, SC (market #221) for about a year in the early 1990s, I was randomly selected to be an Arbitron diary participant. I want to say the participant period was for more than one week but not a full month, and they didn't renew anyone after that time period.
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The diary has always been just one week. And it ended on a Thursday which was, long ago (as in "the later 60's") determined to be the best time as it gave people all day Friday to finish filling it in and the weekend to drop it in a mailbox.

Since then, it has just been "how it was always done". I suspect that the vastly different workdays, the change of jobs from manufacturing to services and all kind of other social changes have made this less a truth than a custom.

And, of course, the top 48 markets are measured electronically with participants households remaining on panel as much as 2 years if they fully comply.
 
DavidEduardo said:
The diary has always been just one week. And it ended on a Thursday which was, long ago (as in "the later 60's") determined to be the best time as it gave people all day Friday to finish filling it in and the weekend to drop it in a mailbox.

Since then, it has just been "how it was always done". I suspect that the vastly different workdays, the change of jobs from manufacturing to services and all kind of other social changes have made this less a truth than a custom.

And, of course, the top 48 markets are measured electronically with participants households remaining on panel as much as 2 years if they fully comply.
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To be clear, the diaries themselves were weekly; however, the participation period was only about 3 weeks as I recall (3 diaries). Maybe it was four weeks.
 
jabba17 said:
To be clear, the diaries themselves were weekly; however, the participation period was only about 3 weeks as I recall (3 diaries). Maybe it was four weeks.
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That must have been an unusual situation, as the way the diary system is designed is to establish a quota of weekly participants covering the survey period. I've never heard of a participant being engaged for more than one week ever since surveys were moved to 12-week periods well before your participation.

I did my first diary reviews in Beltsville in 1970, so am fairly familiar with the procedure.

If you recall, were the diaries identical? Same design, and all for radio?
 
I am familiar with part of downtown. Parking anything bigger than pickup truck will be an headache. I can only guess anything that will not fit in the service elevator will have to be hoisted up the side of the building which will require the load not to break any of the glass that serves as the outside walls of the building. I have seen stuff helicoptered to roofs in Atlanta. Do they make FM antennas that come in sections that are assembled on site? The biggest FM antenna I have seen before it was installed was a 2 bay made for 96.7 and it was a solid piece of metal.

Of course the crew could stay at the Westin. They had good room service the last time I was there.
 
secondchoice said:
I am familiar with part of downtown. Parking anything bigger than pickup truck will be an headache. I can only guess anything that will not fit in the service elevator will have to be hoisted up the side of the building which will require the load not to break any of the glass that serves as the outside walls of the building. I have seen stuff helicoptered to roofs in Atlanta. Do they make FM antennas that come in sections that are assembled on site? The biggest FM antenna I have seen before it was installed was a 2 bay made for 96.7 and it was a solid piece of metal.

Of course the crew could stay at the Westin. They had good room service the last time I was there.
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Everything will go up the service elevators, no hoisting or helicopter needed...
 
DavidEduardo said:
That must have been an unusual situation, as the way the diary system is designed is to establish a quota of weekly participants covering the survey period. I've never heard of a participant being engaged for more than one week ever since surveys were moved to 12-week periods well before your participation.

I did my first diary reviews in Beltsville in 1970, so am fairly familiar with the procedure.

If you recall, were the diaries identical? Same design, and all for radio?
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As I recall the diaries were all the same. Maybe there was only one diary for one week. It's been 30 years... :)
 
jabba17 said:
As I recall the diaries were all the same. Maybe there was only one diary for one week. It's been 30 years...
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I was sent $1 and a diary book in the late 70s. I was not yet 18. I must admit that I just filled it out the way I wanted to. WACX the 1kw daytime in Austell, GA (part of metro Atlanta), had a very good book. :)
 
Unless this is the exact model of antenna as their old antenna what do they have to file with FCC? I didn't see a CP on the FCC site. I know with the AUX site they didn't have to file an STA.
 
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