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KPTK Carrier Problems

W

Wrench

KPTK's carrier keeps cutting out today. I started listening at 9:30 this morning. Sounded like the directional pattern was changing every 60 seconds or so.

Tuned in again at 1:30 and it was still going on. Surprised the antenna switch hasn't burned out.

The question is: Was ANYBODY listening? Is there even a board op there on Sundays? Isn't there like a "master control" for all the Infinity stations?

Did anybody get called out? How could this continue for so many hours without somebody fixing it?

To rant on...this typifies the "nobody is home" attitude at many commercial stations today, particularly on weekends. They expect people to listen, but don't put any life, effort or money into the product.


-Wrench
 
KPTK has board-ops 24-7



KPTK's carrier keeps cutting out today. I started listening
> at 9:30 this morning. Sounded like the directional pattern
> was changing every 60 seconds or so.
>
> Tuned in again at 1:30 and it was still going on. Surprised
> the antenna switch hasn't burned out.
>
> The question is: Was ANYBODY listening? Is there even a
> board op there on Sundays? Isn't there like a "master
> control" for all the Infinity stations?
>
> Did anybody get called out? How could this continue for so
> many hours without somebody fixing it?
>
> To rant on...this typifies the "nobody is home" attitude at
> many commercial stations today, particularly on weekends.
> They expect people to listen, but don't put any life, effort
> or money into the product.
>
>
> -Wrench
>
 
The board ops were probably listening to a different station. Why would they listen to the drivel of KPTK?<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by gearjammer on 09/19/05 01:27 AM.</FONT></P>
 
Actually, I think the board ops there should be all-powerful, and be able to deflect the rays of the sun. I don't even work there and most certainly am not an engineer, and I know what the problem is.
Anyone ever in radio knows what it is.
Surely you understand radio, no?
The problem is solar flares. Ever hear of 'em? Anyone?
TP,
Wearin' SPF 150.
 
> > The problem is solar flares. Ever hear of 'em? Anyone?


Wasn't solar flares. Was the sound of the carrier dropping out. Sounded like the antenna pattern switch.

Learn to listen more carefully...
 
> Wasn't solar flares. Was the sound of the carrier dropping
> out. Sounded like the antenna pattern switch.
>
> Learn to listen more carefully...
>
Hmmm, you obviously were listening. So if the carrier was dropping out, was the Million-watt Tijuana station filling the void? I've heard it in the daytime when KING went off at times.
My theory: No carrier=mexican music. Carrier=solar flares. Please, educate us Wrench!
 
> > > The problem is solar flares. Ever hear of 'em? Anyone?
>
>
>
> Wasn't solar flares. Was the sound of the carrier dropping
> out. Sounded like the antenna pattern switch.
>
> Learn to listen more carefully...
>

Wrench = Tool.
 
> KPTK's carrier keeps cutting out today. I started listening
> at 9:30 this morning. Sounded like the directional pattern
> was changing every 60 seconds or so.
>
> Tuned in again at 1:30 and it was still going on. Surprised
> the antenna switch hasn't burned out.
>
> The question is: Was ANYBODY listening? Is there even a
> board op there on Sundays? Isn't there like a "master
> control" for all the Infinity stations?
>
> Did anybody get called out? How could this continue for so
> many hours without somebody fixing it?
>
> To rant on...this typifies the "nobody is home" attitude at
> many commercial stations today, particularly on weekends.
> They expect people to listen, but don't put any life, effort
> or money into the product.

Especially KPTK, now that they finally got Thom Hartmann on in the mornings. That guy just rocks. They seem to improve in baby steps.

I'm glad they're making a physical presence at community events and some real promotion. And it will pay off. Given the general anger and frustration with the Bush Administration's debacle currently in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and a little occupation for profit racket we got in the Middle East that still hasn't gone away, I say in a year they could be making the airbags at KVI and KTTH go "Uh-oh...".


>
>
> -Wrench
>
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