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Post by David on Jan 26, 2021 16:47:47 GMT -6
FWIW, KUSU 89.5 has been on the air with an open carrier since at least 9 PM Monday night. Doesn't anyone make "silence alarms" anymore?
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Post by kenglish on Jan 26, 2021 20:50:18 GMT -6
The problem is, who would get notified if the alarm went off?
(Seems like I noticed them off in SLC last night, too. I wasn't sure if there was a legit reason. Then, my radio battery died.)
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Post by David on Jan 26, 2021 21:33:45 GMT -6
My guess is that KUSU has an on call engineer who's contacted when there's technical difficulties, but perhaps not. Isn't there an FCC requirement that radio and TV stations must have an experienced broadcast engineer available to keep things operating properly?
Lengthy periods of dead air seem to be more commonplace now than in years past when there wasn't so much reliance on computers and automation. The local AM graveyard station that's about a mile from my house is notorious for broadcasting dead air for hours or even days at a time before someone notices and fixes the automation.
KUSU is still on the air with "radio silence" as of 8:30 PM this evening, but their TuneIn stream is working just fine. Go figure!
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 27, 2021 0:03:49 GMT -6
There's a big difference between knowing a station is off the air and being able to do something about it. As much as engineers would love to wave a magic wand to fix any and all problems, they obviously can't.
You know the Chief Engineer and I'll leave it to him to give us any details he can about what's happening.
P.S. 89.5 is KUSR. KUSU is 91.5
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Post by David on Jan 27, 2021 12:13:05 GMT -6
There's a big difference between knowing a station is off the air and being able to do something about it. As much as engineers would love to wave a magic wand to fix any and all problems, they obviously can't. You know the Chief Engineer and I'll leave it to him to give us any details he can about what's happening. P.S. 89.5 is KUSR. KUSU is 91.5 I'm not sure what you mean, CA. I really don't have any idea who the chief engineer for the USU stations is. BTW, 91.5 KUSU is also broadcasting a dead carrier. Whatever the problem is, it's obviously affecting more than one station/translator. That's too bad, because I'm currently working from home and I enjoy listening to the classical programming on 89.5 at night. Guess I'll have to listen to KUER HD3 until someone at Utah State gets the technical difficulties with KUSR resolved. |
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Post by kenglish on Jan 27, 2021 12:23:13 GMT -6
Getting a carrier-only in Midvale. There was no signal last night.
Their website has a note saying they are aware of a problem "for our listeners in Ogden", and an engineer has been dispatched.
I guess the translators are daisy-chained, so we are not getting it down here.
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Post by David on Jan 28, 2021 13:40:07 GMT -6
KUSR is back on the air and loud & clear in Ogden. Based on the noises I heard on 89.5 Wednesday evening, it sounded like the STL had failed, because there's no drop outs in the audio today.👍
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 28, 2021 19:46:40 GMT -6
USU's Chief Engineer is Friend Weller, aka friendlee, a longtime contributor here.
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