[SBE] A day in the life of a Broadcast Engineer

[A9xw at cs.com]

6 AM call, transmitter power very low.  Drive to site. Find that unit 
switched to exciter B (loaner from manufacturer) from our own exciter (a) no 
reason noted in failure displays. B was generating 9% power. Screw driver to teh 
ready, cranked AGC and MGC wide open, achieved 20% power. Switched to A 
exciter, power slightly low but near 100%. Went through diagnostic screens, no 
new problems found (3 rf amps and 1 PS out for weeks waiting for 
manufacturer) Re-adjusted delay line and power divider rhostat to obtain best balance, 
achieved licensed power.  

Sent e-mail to manufacturer detailing continued and new problems. Also sent 
them data on parts arrived as manufacturer was unsure what they had sent us.
Checked other items to use up some time to make sure TX was stable.

Drive to studio. 

Vendor call on sat truck upgtade to HD.  Printed out new sat truck licenses 
from FCC. Call from tower crew postponing work for 1 week to mount multi 
bay FM and new coax @ 525 feet on 1010' tower.

Copies of license passed on for truck op, file and master control posting. 
Informed sales that can sell sat truck rental now that license in in hand. 

Checked on garage door (3) replacement/repairs. 

copy of travel information given to accounting.

Helped MC engineer find sat receiver connections to HD router, was not set 
up in menu properly. 

Removed several racked items from old SDI TV MC and putin storage racks of 
new MC. 

E-mails read. Sent e-mail  to tower renters informing them of dual power 
outage scheduled by utility company, copies to cable and sat companies, 
programming and MC ops. 

Vendor called saying quote was on the way for HD OB facilities upgrade with 
16x16 HD switcher, HD server, edit etc and rf pieces for dual HD, dual SD 
sat truck (4 simul feeds). Will meet at lunch tomorrow to discuss.  

Lunch time. 

Henry 
 


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