{"id":4709,"date":"2011-08-30T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2011-08-31T13:50:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:50:21","slug":"off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/30\/off-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Update: NCPR is now back on the air in all locations. Thanks for your patience.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(I&#8217;m cross-posting this entry from the All In blog to make sure everyone who visits the In Box sees this report from our chief engineer Bob Sauter. &#8211;ER)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to update the status of several of our facilities which are currently not operating due to effects from Irene:<\/p>\n<p>1) WXLH, Blue Mountain Lake, 91.3.\u00a0 This site is located on the  summit of Blue Mountain\u2026 electrical service to the top is via a 2 mile  overhead power line installed in the 1950&#8217;s to power the former DEW  radar site on Blue.\u00a0 This line has always been a problem, we&#8217;ve  installed some large batteries at the site which give WXLH about 15  hours of backup power\u2026\u00a0 there is no generator at the site due to  environmental, space and engineering issues.\u00a0 I spoke today with a NYSEG  representative who said that they tried re-connecting the power to the  summit Monday night, but it only stayed on for a minute before blowing  the fuses.\u00a0 I also contacted one of the other users of the site, who  couldn&#8217;t get to the summit due to the downed power lines across the  trail.\u00a0 (he was trying to bring a standby generator up!)\u00a0 NYSEG says  they will be working on the site and provided no estimate of when things  will be back to normal.\u00a0 The funny thing is that the site owner has  plans to have the power line &#8220;trail&#8221; cleared during September\u2026 too late,  however for Irene.<\/p>\n<p>2) Newcomb Translator 97.3\u2026 this translator re-broadcasts the signal  of WXLH, BML\u2026 so as long as WXLH is off the air, Newcomb will also be  silent.<\/p>\n<p>3) Keene Translator 90.1\u2026. this translator is located on Jackson Hill  Road, NYSEG says that power should be restored to the site today or  tomorrow (late Tuesday or Wednesday)\u00a0 This translator is located in an  individual&#8217;s back yard, and connected to the owner&#8217;s home generator\u2026.  which, apparently has failed due to a lightning hit earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>4) Keene Valley 96.3\u2026\u00a0 this translator rebroadcasts the Keene  Translator, so hopefully, when Keene returns to service today or  tomorrow, KV will be back on the air.<\/p>\n<p>5) St. Huberts 101.7\u2026. receives its signal from Keene Valley etc.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any signal reports\u2026 or lack of signal reports email me at  radiobob@ncpr.org.\u00a0 In many cases it is only through listener feedback  that I know what is going on with our 33 transmitters.\u00a0 Thanks for your  continuing patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: NCPR is now back on the air in all locations. Thanks for your patience. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}