Problems on West Peak yesterday and other topics

[DJKraze]

I just purchased a car Friday and this means I have a working radio again. I haven't changed the presets yet, and I don't remember them off-hand, but knowing how popular that info seems to be here, I'll post them soon.

Yesterday between 4pm and 4:30, I was heading out to the last staff meeting for ConnectiCon before the convention (July 31 to Aug 2 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford www.connecticon.org - shameless plug) and I noticed that WPKT & WWYZ were both out, they came back within 10 minutes, anyone else notice this?

[kms575]

I was not listening to either station, but wasn't that part of the state having some severe storms at the time?

[DJKraze]

The severe storms weren't in that area till much later, and 93.7, 95.7, 102.9, 104.1 & 105.9 were all on without problems.

(Now for one of those other topics I forgot to mention)
I notice I get both NB PR pirates 90.1 & 90.9 right outside my house now, power increase? (90.1 is a difficult catch in NB though).

[FlatTop]

102.9 was out for less than 10 seconds near the top of the 4 PM hour, and came right back.  You are right, the heavy storms were actually north of Hartford at that time.

[MarcB]

Today around 4:15-4:30PM 90.5 WPKT was missing. And I was getting a near crystal clear signal from Albany's WAMC 90.3 in the car while sitting in my parent's driveway in Southington. I never have problems with WPKT on my car radio in this area. Just on the house radio. (Southington High School also has trouble receiving WPKT. They carry WPKT on the audio of Southington High School TV COX-16 and sometimes the reception of the audio is horrible).

[Boborobdos]

Hi,

(another shameless plug)

While you are at Connecticon over the weekend stop by the Mensa booth (vendors area) and ask for Smith.

Smith

[DJKraze]

I'm not sure that I'll have enough time as I'm working tech in Main Events. Someone has to spin the music/show the videos. I usually don't get out much.

[Necrat]

The likelyhood that this is power related is good. The cause could be anything from a "dirty" utility switch from the electric company to a car hitting a pole down near the mountain's power feed off of Route 120. A utility auto-recloser retries the circuit typically after 3-4 seconds, so it could have been related to that.

WWYZ is on a tube transmitter (a Continental) , while 95.7, 104.1, and 105.9 are all solid state Harris'. I don't know what the other stations have for equipment. But the tube transmitters take longer to recover from a power hit than a solid state rig does. (A tube transmitter has many more components to it to run the tube.). If you had an HD radio, it would've been interesting to see if while WWYZ analog was off, if the digital was still on. (WWYZ is using a solid state Harris into a single bay antenna)

[DJKraze]

Actually, I kinda wish I were home when this happened as well because I could swear I was hearing the typical digital noise on 92.3 and 92.7 that I usually hear, but nothing but static on 92.5. I was thinking that it couldn't be, but from that description, I guess it could have been.