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Transformer blows on Poplar and takes 98.9 103.5 & 105.9 off the air

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mikl73

All 3 sitting with a dead carrier after the event.

I was picking up dinner at Buckleys and witnessed the transformer blowing up in the parking lot behind. Nice lightshow but a little scary too.

So anyone know if they even have a power back up in place over there?
they've been in that building a few years now
 
RadeoEngineer said:
My guess is that if they had aux power they wouldn't have been off the air. ;D
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And that's inexcusable from my point of view....Less than 10K will get you a generator big enough to drive all of the studios and engineering gear....or maybe someone let generator maintenance slip through the cracks.
 
radiosaur said:
RadeoEngineer said:
My guess is that if they had aux power they wouldn't have been off the air. ;D
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And that's inexcusable from my point of view....Less than 10K will get you a generator big enough to drive all of the studios and engineering gear....or maybe someone let generator maintenance slip through the cracks.
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Yep, but sometimes the ones with control of the purse strings are penny wise and pound foolish. They should take a look at lost revenues for the outage and figure out how to afford, at minimum, three 7500 watt portable generators. For that matter a twenty k watt natural gas fueled with an auto transfer would be plenty, but now you have the expense of rewiring critical circuits. I have a 7500 that runs my whole house.
 
I guess when the next Ice storm hits we will see which stations can remain on the air and give info

of course high chance most of them will seem to be on autopilot as usual with no acknowledgement of
what is occuring outside
 
I heard that the other night, and wondered that the loss of power, and (assumed) loss of control didn't cut the carriers. 98, at one point, seemed to be re-airing 93x (could have been some goofy multiplexing thing, but I heard a 93x ID on 98.1)

It does remind me of a time when a car climbed a light pole and knocked power out at 103 (then at 1385 Lamar). Tony Yoken, Gary Condrey and I hauled it out to the transmitter, then on Channel 3's tower, and went back on the air with a cassette deck, mike and mixer plugged straight in.
 
Christmas memories from WDDT, 1974! I'm on the far left, with Casey Cole, Dan Dymon, and JK Ward. The guy on the far right is Jimmy Karr, who still runs a conglomeration of stations down in Greenville. The lady on the left is Lucille Wilson.
The photo was taken when the station was still a part of the Delta Democrat Times, and the studios were located in the newspaper's offices on Broadway.
 
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