WJIB off due to power outage

Fri May 8 03:42:14 EDT 2015

TEXT FROM FACEBOOK: (with photos on facebook)

WJIB's  AILMENTS. Busy week in jib-land! On May 7th at 8:15 AM, there was 
supposedly a  little explosion of underground power lines along Concord 
Avenue. Knocked WJIB  off the air. Power not restored until about 3 PM by power 
company. But it also  blew out WJIB's audio processor. Took a couple more 
hours to replace that one  with the old back-up. WJIB returned to the air aroud 
7 PM. Meanwhile, on the  same day, tower-climbers were scheduled to run 
totally new coax cable all the  way up the tower to replace the 67-year-old 
existing wiring, which went bad a  couyple months ago, resultingin the top 
tower light not being connected. Now,  time to change the type of lighting. Now 
it's all LED red lights; on top, and 4  more on the sides. Top light now 
working. Side lights to be done today, Friday.  I came down from Maine to 
assist in the project on May 7 (Thurs), as well as to  cure another problem...... 
station off the air soon after nighttime, around 9  PM. Me and trusty 
tech-guy believe that's due to faulty 3-pound capacitors in  "the dog house"; the 
little enclosure at the base of the tower. Those were  replaced at 10 PM 
Thursday night May 7th. And as of now, 3 AM May 8th, WJIB is  still on, so 
maybe we were right about that. Time will tell. I'm back in Maine  now, and I 
can monitor the signal by phone, from here. All of this costing over  
$14,000.00. And that's after last year's every-10-years-tower-painting at  
$13,000.00. Some photos of Thursday here.....

In a message dated 5/8/2015 3:38:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ssmyth@psualum.com writes:

My  original message bounced back because I can't get the formatting to 
turn off  on my Yahoo app. Text is below.

Here's an early morning Facebook post  from Bob describing the issues he's 
run into this week. Apparently you need to  be logged in to view  it.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/WJIB740/permalink/10152695298161012/

On  Thursday, May 7, 2015 9:24 PM, Sean Smyth <ssmyth@psualum.com>  wrote:

Bob has mentioned this a bit on Facebook. IIRC, there is  an issue where 
the transmitter isn't staying on while WJIB is on night power.  

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

At May 7, 2015, 8:04:54 PM,  A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>I found WJIB off the air last night around  midnight or so.  I wonder how 
>long the power outage had been  around.
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>On 5/7/2015 11:12 AM, Bob Clements  wrote:
>> WJIB Cambridge is off the air at the  moment.
>>
>> I happened to be in the area, and went over to  the building to
>> see what's up.  There is a failure of a power  splice in the
>> street (Concord Avenue).  Lots of power company  people in
>> the area.  I talked with some of the other people  in the
>> building, too.  Sounds like at least one phase of the  power
>> is dead.
>>
>> Reportedly, Bob is on his  way down from Maine for another
>> reason anyway.  With the high  voltage in the street, the need
>> for coordinating a shutdown in the  area and doing the repair
>> and so on, it'll be a while  yet.
>>
>> I hoped I could just walk in, hit a couple reset  buttons
on
>> the computer, and all would be well.  No such  luck.
>>
>> Bob, K1BC
>>
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