storm outages

[flytrap]

I did a scan during the afternoon thunderstorm and the following stations were either off the air or dead air. 930, 970, 1400, 87.7, 98.3 (Carthage) 99.1, 99.7, 104.5 (Pearl) 105.9 and 107.5. There may have been more but thats all I remember.

 

[rfburns]

I did a scan during the afternoon thunderstorm and the following stations were either off the air or dead air. 930, 970, 1400, 87.7, 98.3 (Carthage) 99.1, 99.7, 104.5 (Pearl) 105.9 and 107.5. There may have been more but thats all I remember.

There were a few more. That was a particularly nasty little thunderstorm that came thru yesterday afternoon. I know most of the stations were back on by 5pm.

RFB

 

[DeadElvis]

I hope since my days at 107.5 (many years ago), SOMETHING has been done about the power at the transmitter site. It was spikey and incredibly unreliable, being at the end of a rural line that supplied chicken farms. It was a mess.

It didn't take a thunderstorm to drop power. Heck, if it dewed heavily in Cuba, we could have gotten problems.

DE

 

[the golden boy]

All of the Inner City stations were off at the same time. Was there a power outage at the studios?

 

[rfburns]

I hope since my days at 107.5 (many years ago), SOMETHING has been done about the power at the transmitter site. It was spikey and incredibly unreliable, being at the end of a rural line that supplied chicken farms. It was a mess.

It didn't take a thunderstorm to drop power. Heck, if it dewed heavily in Cuba, we could have gotten problems.

DE

Southern Pine has done a lot of work on that line. It rarely goes out now, but there is a generator at the site now just in case.

RFB

 

[rfburns]

All of the Inner City stations were off at the same time. Was there a power outage at the studios?

Not quite... generator for the STL hops didn't crank - took a few minutes to correct. Stuff happens, even with routine maintenance.

RFB

 

[DeadElvis]

> Southern Pine has done a lot of work on that line.

Glad to hear it. It would be hard to imagine it being worse. And, combined with those HORRIBLE QEI transmitters (thank goodness we had two), those power spikes could take the station all the way down until the engineer got out there.

Another trip down Amnesia Lane...

DE

 

[rfburns]

> Southern Pine has done a lot of work on that line.

Glad to hear it. It would be hard to imagine it being worse. And, combined with those HORRIBLE QEI transmitters (thank goodness we had two), those power spikes could take the station all the way down until the engineer got out there.

Another trip down Amnesia Lane...

DE

Another thing to be thankful for... they installed a new Continental transmitter about 7-8 years ago, so the remaining QEI backup transmitter doesn't see a lot of action.

RFB