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Talk 1200, is anybody home?
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Dear Jimmy, please understand that for Talk1200, "an iHeart Radio Station", this is NOT abnormal.
MassMusicMan
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A child's lemonade stand has a greater economic impact than that signal - and is far more pleasant.
Actually there was no carrier not just no audio. An Uninterruptible Power Supply failed at the transmitter site taking the whole rack down at 6:43am. After someone responded to the site they were able to get power restored and 1200 was back on the air at 7:58am. Of course the bulk of the listeners on WZLX HD3 and streaming on the iHeartRadio App never knew it happened.
im surprised someone cant tell the difference between off air and dead air, as it appears in this case
MassMusicMan
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It's less surprising when it's a conservative talk radio listener.
I know the difference. It just so happened that it sounded very clean, with no background noise.
MassMusicMan
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Hey, I didn't tell them to air hateful nonsense.
Don't bring politics into this board.
My mom said something that rings true: usually the claim made by a person about another is really a claim about themself. Goes with the line the one who smelled it dealt it. And as a 16 year old board op once said: have you ever noticed the person screaming racism is usually the racist.
And that's all that mattered, right? "The iHeartRadio app."
We’re in 2024, not 1964
No, he also said WZLX HD3. He was speaking from the POV of the listeners. If you're listening to 1200 and the audio drops, you have two alternatives as a listener. The other two platforms were unaffected by the outage.
What you should really say is how amazing it was that they were able to ascertain the problem, dispatch an engineer to the transmitter, and fix the problem, all within 75 minutes during rush hour. Contrary to the subject line: Somebody WAS home, they were on the clock, and they did their job.
And this is the kind of equipment stations have, generally, no backup for. There are a few steps in the creation of an on-air signal that have no backup or workaround.
Another is an antenna switch. If one antenna fails, is compromised by ice or off due to tower work, and the antenna switch to an AUX antenna fails, you are off and an engineer has to get to the site and switch manually.
There are other non-redundant things in a station's operation that can put them off the air. Most fail seldom or never.
MassMusicMan
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I did no such thing, the station did.
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It's less surprising when it's a conservative talk radio listener.
Certainly a shot at conservative talk radio listeners. (Obviously intended as a cut at the intelligence of their listeners)
Then you said...
Hey, I didn't tell them to air hateful nonsense. (Hmmm would that be hate speech on your part? Please explain how it is not)
When told to knock off the political bent, you responded "I did no such thing, the station did." (in my book that statement is a falsehood).
Just drop the political crap. This is a radio board.
It's less surprising when it's a conservative talk radio listener.
Certainly a shot at conservative talk radio listeners. (Obviously intended as a cut at the intelligence of their listeners)
Then you said...
Hey, I didn't tell them to air hateful nonsense. (Hmmm would that be hate speech on your part? Please explain how it is not)
When told to knock off the political bent, you responded "I did no such thing, the station did." (in my book that statement is a falsehood).
Just drop the political crap. This is a radio board.
You took a pot shot at a listener based on politics. Grow up.
They do make an automatic transfer switch you can put between the UPS and loads your protecting in the event of a failure it automatically bypasses the UPS and connects to a alternate power source. I have seen these used at a few stations and use a similar unit where I work. CyberPower PDU44001 Switched ATS PDU, is one unit I have seen, APC also makes a ATS unit for UPS application. Both can email if there is an issue. There is also a manual bypass unit that works great for bypassing a UPC for replacement and servicing.
Yes, I agree, they did a good job detecting the outage.
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