I'm sure I could google a number of PPM articles, try to piece all the info together, and come up with an answer, but it's just easier to ask. Given the power outages due to Hurricane Irene, if someone with a meter is listening on a battery operated radio with no power, is the PPM recording? Is the device itself at the mercy of any network outages like my cell service was? Just curious with all the components of the unit.
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PPM during power outages
- Thread starter Runrigger
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As far as I know (Correct me if I'm wrong) The PPM is like a cell phone in a way - it needs to be charged at night and docked - during the docking - that is when the information that it picks up during the day is transmitted to Arbitron. It isn't transmitted during the day instantly - so if it was charged all night, you picked it up in the morning - went out about your day - the power goes out, you have your battery radio on - it still picks it up. Power back on - you dock it, it transmits back to arbitron at the end of the day.
As for radio stations going off the air, if they lose power, or are on a generator, and the generator isn't powering the PPM encoder - then no ratings will be given for that time.
As for radio stations going off the air, if they lose power, or are on a generator, and the generator isn't powering the PPM encoder - then no ratings will be given for that time.
ON AIR said:
As long as the PPM holds a charge (and they don't hold a charge for long) they will capture data and will upload it to Arbitron once docked. The PPM does not transmit any data instantaneously... only each time it is polled while docked.
Since the encoder is usually in the same rack as the audio processing and STL equipment, it would likely not be excluded when a station is on a genny.
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