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bobdavcav

Hey all, a few weeks back I was looking at wikipedia and saw that during a rainstorm the transmitter for KRUZ went off the air. I'm not sure what would cause this, was the rain so hard that it got into some component of the tower? Btw, I know that that station isn't an L.A. station, but I couldn't think of any other place to put it. Would it go better on the california board? I'm actually quite surprised that it didn't pop up somewhere after it happened in late February.
 
Ive witnessed this type of problem in LA when it rains.

It usually is not the transmitter, rather it is the signal to the transmitter. The signal usually runs on T1 lines from the station and they are vulnerable to rain.
I remember a tower engineer explaining that the phone companies dont quite understand that it's not acceptable to lose signal every time it rains.

The actual air signal did not go off the air, but rather it would be considered dead air.

Do you know which was the case at KRUZ?
 
In that case the phone companies must be a bit better up here as I don't think we've had a station go to dead air during any kind of rain or wind since KMCQ moved to Cougar Mountain. As for KRUZ, all wikipedia said was that the transmitter went off the air during a rainstorm.
 
bobdavcav said:
Hey all, a few weeks back I was looking at wikipedia and saw that during a rainstorm the transmitter for KRUZ went off the air. I'm not sure what would cause this, was the rain so hard that it got into some component of the tower? Btw, I know that that station isn't an L.A. station, but I couldn't think of any other place to put it. Would it go better on the california board? I'm actually quite surprised that it didn't pop up somewhere after it happened in late February.
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Happens to KDLD regularly during heavy rainstorms.
 
I spoke with their engineer a couple months ago and it involved their transmission line from TX to Ant. It was toasted and it took them some time to get one reinstalled. On the day it happened, it wasn't as much the rain as it was the extremely high winds.
 
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