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What happened to WYPL?

radiosaur said:
Apparently their engineer isn't an engineer either if he is reporting "1,400 feet of reflected power on the tower"

Rent a 100w a transmitter and a coathanger, for cying out loud. There is NO reason to be off the air for a week.
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I believe the engineer was referring to measurements that were made with a time domain reflectometer that was used to locate the approximate point in the line of the burnout.

I rebuilt their shively antenna in august of 2005 when the antenna and rigid line were destroyed by a storm. I changed from the rigid line to the 4 inch flex that was left there by 98.9. As for the recent damage, I believe the flex transmission line was the victim of another brutal thunderstorm and is scheduled for replacement.
 
But it does happen. In the case of this particular site, it was never grounded properly to have such a tall tower. I am a contract engineer and not involved in the day to day operation but Keith is a great guy and was correct about a reflection at 1400 feet. Mr Pat Lane used a TDR to check for a line problem. A TDR is not unlike radar. It pulses the line and measures the reflection time from a damaged point. From the measurements one can determine the location of a burn out.
 
BTA-50F said:
But it does happen. In the case of this particular site, it was never grounded properly to have such a tall tower. I am a contract engineer and not involved in the day to day operation but Keith is a great guy and was correct about a reflection at 1400 feet. Mr Pat Lane used a TDR to check for a line problem. A TDR is not unlike radar. It pulses the line and measures the reflection time from a damaged point. From the measurements one can determine the location of a burn out.
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A-Ha!

"it was never grounded properly"

99% of line or antenna failures involve a sentence similiar to that one. Another good one is "No one noticed the line pressure had gone to zero"
 
You are correct! A 1300 foot tower connected to a ground rod just dont cut it.
 
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