[BC] The snow mess

[John Holt]

The biggest problem we have in DC has always been power outages.   We didn't have any at the AU tower site (in the middle of the AU campus) where WAMU, WTOP, WPFW and WMMJ are located but I was worried.  We're replacing the generator in the spring.

Here's a neat video from an apartment across the street.  The WAMU building is on the right (behind the CVS) and the towers are a WU on the left, the chs. 9 and 7 from the early '70s and the original 1947 ch. 9.

Operations engineer Andrew Chadwick set up the camera in the apartment of producer Brendin Sweeney.

The whiteout is a combination of real and overwhelming the camera, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wiLXwjf9Q

John M. Holt
Director of Engineering and Operations
WAMU-American University
Washington, DC 20016
202-885-1242
jholt at wamu.org
http://www.wamu.org

broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net wrote on 02/11/2010 01:51:41 PM:

> OK ... I admit it.
>
> Snow is probably the least worry I've had in my career. One year I
> did have to walk up the side of our mountain, about a mile from the
> ranger station, when a translator went down before the snow melted
> (no falling snow), and one time I did supervise an antenna mount
> during a flurry.
>
> But aside from driving past some bits of snow, mostly I think of it
> as "someone else's problem."
>
> So, does anyone have any stories from the global warming event on the
> East Coast this week?  Any power-related issues. Any tower
> "events"?  Perhaps someone is still digging out, but I've not seen
> much in the way of snow problems for broadcasters.
>
> What do you know?
>