[BC] Wilma swept through Florida quickly - but the toll on radiowas nasty

[balfore@bellsouth.net]

I lost the roof to my am site but water stayed out of the equipment rack and the BE 1A Tx.

All 4 stations went on gensets and by 1pm Tues were back on commercial power except for the studio. Still on genset as of this reply.

All stations stayed on the air during and after. I did catch an alarm on one station genset via remote control that battery voltage was getting low and when I looked into it I found that the alternator had quit.

I took an Astron 35M power supply and hooked it to the battery and that kept the battery charged while genset is running. This bought me some time to get the alternator repaired until I got commercial power and things are less hectic.

SLEEP is an important issue now.

Goodnite all.


Ballard Fore
Vero Beach, FL.
Hurricane Capital
> 
> From: Radiofldude at aol.com
> Date: 2005/10/25 Tue PM 10:40:04 EDT
> To: broadcast at radiolists.net
> Subject: Re: [BC] Wilma swept through Florida quickly - but the toll on
> 	radiowas nasty
> 
> We nwere lucky here at WTIR. Mind you, we were on the edge of it, but we  
> have 3 or 4 tornadoes touch down in the county.
>  
> A few minutes of dead air due to our FM simulcast losing the cable feed,  
> some roof leakage.....
>  
>  
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