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Mingus Mountain FM's down since Monday

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phil

A friend tells me that most of the FM's on Mingus Mtn are off the air, due to a power line failure. Apparently
none have stand-by generators.

Maybe in smaller markets management doesn't worry about revenue losses.
 
Sort of like the Tuesday morning issues with several (I couldn't confirm all) Phoenix FMs?

While nearly 18,000 customers were without power after the storm, and dozens of uncontrolled intersections spanning from the north valley to the south, I think South Mountain must have had a brief issue. Shortly before 10:30 am, FM stations went to static. All across my presets-- static (and a strange-sounding static at that).

It lasted a minute or two, which I'm assuming is about the time whatever-that-engineering-equipment-is-called can detect a problem and back it up?

KOOL stayed a little longer, and went from static to sounds of silence (but not the song) for maybe an extra minute or so.

Surprised nobody has mentioned it. FM-less in Phoenix was an odd experience. Now I sound so... never mind. :-X

http://www.phoenixairchecks.com/tues-morn-power-outages-hinder-phoenix-radio/
 
KOOL Listener Lauren said:
KOOL stayed a little longer, and went from static to sounds of silence (but not the song) for maybe an extra minute or so.
Click to expand...

did this by chance happen during Steve Miller Band? if so, i remember a pause of silence around 1130am
 
Friend says they are still off the air....that's about 60 hours.

I would have thought one of them would have rented a generator.

I wonder if staff is getting paid, or did they send them all home without pay.
 
I'm receiving KAHM-FM (102.1) on my car radio in NW Glendale. I know I also heard it on Tuesday morning while sitting in my car in Avondale (while a friend ran into Fry's). Does KAHM have another site besides Mingus?
 
KOOL Listener Lauren said:
Sort of like the Tuesday morning issues with several (I couldn't confirm all) Phoenix FMs?

While nearly 18,000 customers were without power after the storm, and dozens of uncontrolled intersections spanning from the north valley to the south, I think South Mountain must have had a brief issue. Shortly before 10:30 am, FM stations went to static. All across my presets-- static (and a strange-sounding static at that).

It lasted a minute or two, which I'm assuming is about the time whatever-that-engineering-equipment-is-called can detect a problem and back it up?

KOOL stayed a little longer, and went from static to sounds of silence (but not the song) for maybe an extra minute or so.

Surprised nobody has mentioned it. FM-less in Phoenix was an odd experience. Now I sound so... never mind. :-X

http://www.phoenixairchecks.com/tues-morn-power-outages-hinder-phoenix-radio/
Click to expand...

If the power dumps on South Mountain (or anywhere else), it will take from about 30 seconds to a minute for the generator to start and get up to speed before the transfer switch kicks it over and restores power to the transmitter site. So that sounds about right.

There's three reasons I can think of that might keep you off the air on Mingus Mountain:

1. You don't have a generator
2. You have a generator but it won't start and you can't safely get up there to fix it
3. There's so much ice on the antenna that the transmitter shut itself down
 
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