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KBRT Pix

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Not to bring up a thorny topic but here are some after fire pix of the KBRT antenna/TX site.

http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m115/tonydinkel/kbrt/

CGC offers this update on what the CE has been doing to get the station back on the air:

"Lately, KBRT has been running on a temporary electric
generator and Bill has been hauling 20 gallons of diesel fuel
(in four five gallon jugs) from Avalon to the site each day.
The road is beat up following the fire and the drive is slow.
The AQMD might even fine KBRT for running the generator too many
hours a day, creating extra air pollution as a result. Then
there's the issue of fuel cost. It's just over $5/gallon for
diesel and about the same for gasoline.

Add to that mix the constant stream of attorneys, adjusters
and investigators that want to be taxied around and you find
yourself busy 24/7. Oh yes, there's another little problem.
Bill says, "With all the fine ash dust caused by the fire and the
morning and evening fog, I have lots of issues arising with our
equipment that are beginning to overwhelm me since [the crud] is
blowing inside the plant through the ventilation fans since our
usual re-circulating air conditioning systems are off-line."

Good news: electric service has been restored to the
transmitter site. Bad news: the configuration of the utility-
provided power makes it 100% unusable. The utility insists that
KBRT must now reconfigure its plant to meet the modernized feed,
so that means more delays and red tape for permits to change out
the power meter and electric panel. KBRT has phone service again
but random/intermittent outages are common. Living in Baghdad
might be better in that regard."

http://www.bext.com/_CGC/2007/cgc795.htm

This fire has been a real mess for the station on every level.

db
 
Lopaka said:
I will always remember KBRT for blaming President Clinton and Janet Reno for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Click to expand...

That doesn't surprise me.

Although I am a Christian I never listen to KBRT or any stations similar to it as I find all of these people (including the TBN crowd) to be as crazy as a box of frogs and the worst kind of hypocrites.

But I do find KBRT's handling of this fire interesting if only to draw lessons on station management during a crisis. So far, the management gets a "C-" grading.

db
 
As a follow up to the KBRT fire recovery, the CGC newsletter #798 quoted the CE on the current situation:

"A couple of engineers from Educational Media Foundation came over for a few days last week to lend me a hand and they were a big help."

EMF? Well, that makes sense. I will say one thing for them, the godcasters do help each other out.

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