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oldiesfan6479

The high wind--or something--has knocked a number of big-stick
FMs on South Mountain off the air. At 3:00 PM, these freqs were
all noted as airing the "Silent Sam Show":

93.3
94.5
96.9
97.9
99.9
101.5
104.7

In addition, 550 AM was also off (seemingly the only AM affected),
but was back on at 3:11.

Caller: Are you off the air?
DJ: Yes we are.
Caller: Well, why don't you make an announcement? ;D
 
I've noticed that too Oldiesfan. Time to do some daytime DXing on the FM dial! ;D

At least our beloved Lumberyard is still broadcasting through today's wind storm. KAZG isn't affected by outside weather because the goldminers are hard at work digging out those oldie nuggets deep underground in Scottsdale! :)
 
asugeorge1 said:
At least our beloved Lumberyard is still broadcasting through today's wind storm. KAZG isn't affected by outside weather because the goldminers are hard at work digging out those oldie nuggets deep underground in Scottsdale! :)
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.....either that, or they've got hydroelectric power from the canal bank. State of the Sixties Art, Nurse Jeff and I'd say!
 
Dr. Akbar said:
asugeorge1 said:
At least our beloved Lumberyard is still broadcasting through today's wind storm. KAZG isn't affected by outside weather because the goldminers are hard at work digging out those oldie nuggets deep underground in Scottsdale! :)
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.....either that, or they've got hydroelectric power from the canal bank. State of the Sixties Art, Nurse Jeff and I'd say!
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Or, Doc, when "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" and "In the Still of the Night" by the Five Satins are being played on 1440, it's the State of the Fifties Art! I'm talking about the Lumberyard being powered by hovercrafts (an invention from 1956) Super Glue (1951) and Black Box Flight Recorders (1953)! ;D
 
KOOL's carrier came back up at 4:00:30, with music (JIP) at 4:01:10.

First question: when you've been off the air for an hour or more, don't
you need to do a legal ID when you return to the air?

The first ID heard was in the VT automation at 4:02:55.

And when programming restarted, was there any mention of being off
the air for such an extended period? Nope, thanks to voicetracking. ::)

Traffic Dept. (is there still such a thing?) will have to schedule quite
a few make-goods from the 3 PM hour.

I wonder...if this had been a weekday, and the audience had missed out
on a "Moooooo!," would KOOL, and Large Marge, be in deep, uh, cowpies? ;)
 
I noticed we had an amazingly powerful wind gust of 40 mph today... I certainly hope transmitters are built well enough to withstand the winds generated from the passage of a typical mid-spring area of low pressure. Then again, I've lived here for 27.5 years and it seems that even a light rain knocks a few stations off the air... might be time to encase the sensitive broadcasting equipment in something other than adobe.
 
It might be time for SRP to get their act together and build an electrical infrastructure on South Mountain that can actually stand up to 40 mph+ winds without falling apart! I observed numerous downed lines on the east end of the mountain, thus the outages you all keenly observed. The real "damage" to many stations was done before any sustained loss of power, and that was the lines slapping together and causing phase losses to occur.
Three phase loads do not like that! Transmitters are, for the most part, built very well; they turn themselves off if all three phases are not correct.
 
Adobe...that is hilarious....I wanted to live and work in this area...sheesh. Can I get some of that Indian bread for breakfast?

at....


Subways...

LOL
 
Actually SRP does a great job of providing power to South Mountain. Nasty weather just does bad things to the electrical grid. When the power fails generators come on line and the engineers are keeping their fingers crossed that nothing got blown up with the power surges. Two FM's on SM have no generators.
 
Hmmm. Interesting. The major stations get knocked off by wind, and KCDX gets knocked off by storms. Go figure.
 
This is Phoenix, where every time it rains steadily or gets windy, I save all my files and sit back and wait for a power outage, then set my VCR to capture the intense moments that follow afterwards when the news comes on and everybody in the studio is going mad crazy about the entire phenomenon.

Then, just wait until it snows in Phoenix. I still remember my first experience at my first job back in the 90's... EVERYBODY stopped working in 7th St & Bell KMART, left the lines & registers, and to the front of the stores by the windows they all went! ...So I decided I might as well go, too.
 
PR2U said:
It's Ted Tucker's karma that does that. If you think that's bad... You should hear his New Mexico stations.
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He's got properties in NM? If they're streaming, send me the links! Good to see a quality station like KCDX last for years.
 
DJ_Perry said:
Dave Andrews said:
.... and KCDX gets knocked off by storms. Go figure.
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50 percent of the time, 103.1 is dead air. For some reason it stays on my presets, and half the time i check, it's just silence (not static).
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It sounds like either the STL or the PC that's running the music from (I think) Phoenix dies periodically. Unless there's a huge storm, the transmitter usually stays on, but even the TX has died a few times in the last month or so.

And yes, it happens way too often. Who's the (part-time?) engineer in charge of this station?
 
pattiwacki said:
Dr. Akbar said:
oldiesfan6479 said:
KeithE4 said:
And yes, it happens way too often. Who's the (part-time?) engineer in charge of this station?
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With a usual warning about the accuracy of Wiki articles, it refers to the elusive
Ted Tucker as a "broadcast-radio engineer," so maybe he does it himself?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCDX
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Wow, The Lumberyard on Wiki! I know who did that! ;)


hmmmmm....whose fingerprints are all over this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAZG ??? ??? ???
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