Flooding?

[fullabaloney]

Any other Rhode Island or nearby Massachusetts underwater today?

If we get really lucky, maybe Mother Nature will throw in some very strong winds and lightning along with the rain, and it might all combine to take out one or more of those "leaning towers of burrillville". ;D

Our luck would be that for some strange reason they dont fall down and everyone else gets flooded out.

Which makes me think. I know that it is probably on the cheap to house all the stations they do on the trail,Oxford street etc.
I think there should be a rule if you house more than 2 stations the 3rd should have its own location just in case if your headquaters like the trail were to to get flooded out or destroyed and everyone is off the air.At least if you had a second building with a station still on the air you could broadcast something.

I understand the economics of an entire cluster in one building, but that said, it does suck at times and in a rare case of a disastrous weather event hitting the building it can be chalked up to a potentially bad decision.

 

[MarcB]

See the damage to the building housing Saga Radio's WZID 95.7, WMLL 96.5, and WFEA 1370 in Manchester, New Hampshire from a storm at the end of February. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfaklGTmTCY Jordan Wilder who works for the cluster took this video. The video was mentioned in FYBUSH's column on 3/8.

 

[N1WVQ]

WARV was off too. They came back on over the weekend.

 

[Silkie]

What a mess!

 

[VelvetR]

Fybush had a coupe of good pix of WDDZ with the base insulator on the North tower under water but noted that the old tube-type aux transmitter (an RCA 1-kW) managed to drive the antenna even in that condition though at what power is a question. The flood level in the photos looks like it was about the same or a little higher than when The Blackstone flooded back in about 1967 or 68. At that time we jury-rigged a longwire and still got listener calls from South of Cranston with what I figured was, maybe, 120 Watts. Amazing what a signal down on 550 can do!

Moral: If you're gonna go solid state on AM, keep the old tube-type around and at least alive so you can switch to it when all else fails!

 

[Silkie]

Fybush had a coupe of good pix of WDDZ with the base insulator on the North tower under water but noted that the old tube-type aux transmitter (an RCA 1-kW) managed to drive the antenna even in that condition though at what power is a question. The flood level in the photos looks like it was about the same or a little higher than when The Blackstone flooded back in about 1967 or 68. At that time we jury-rigged a longwire and still got listener calls from South of Cranston with what I figured was, maybe, 120 Watts. Amazing what a signal down on 550 can do!

Moral: If you're gonna go solid state on AM, keep the old tube-type around and at least alive so you can switch to it when all else fails!

You might be surprised to know the kinds of items that don't rubble up, double up, rust, rot, shrink, stink or blow up during a flood - and none of it is made in China. Believe me, I have seen first hand what survives a flood.

 

[Silkie]

By the by, every time some genius decides to check to see if there is any water in the moon we get these events, right after they tell us that moon smashing, crashing, landing and other exploitation causing cataclysmic events are old wives' tales. Consider the history. Either that or China just seeded too many clouds.