[BC] the Deja VU meter is pegging (was: IBOC)

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:08 AM 7/20/2005, Kevin Tekel wrote: -------

>But yet, the old hollow-state Continental has saved WOR's arse several
>times, such as when the IBOC exciter went kaput, and during the August
>2003 blackout when the power was too unstable for the DX-50 to deal
>with.
>
>Digital may offer many "dramatic improvements", but true reliability
>as a fail-safe backup isn't one of them.

While I was there we lost very little air time As I recall, the 
Continental was used during routine maintenance. I can't remember a 
single time it was used because the DX-50 failed. I wasn't there 
during the blackout. The failure of the IBOC exciter isn't the fault 
of the transmitter. I left before IBOC was installed. I do recall the 
DX-50 running on the generator with no problem, so I don't understand 
why it should have, suddenly, been unstable. Where did you get your 
information?

I do remember the Continental at XTRA having occasional problems with 
the Mexican and generator power. Something to do with magnaphase. The 
backup GE didn't care what it was fed. it ran on brute force. It 
would probably have melted the towers before shutting down.

The issue in the original message wasn't reliability but changes in technology.

Rich

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