04/03/2024
Weather can make Shortwave Broadcasting a challenge.
Last night during the severe rainstorms that went through Bethel, a stub-line support cable deflected enough to come into proximity with the vertical transmission line during broadcast and burnt it off.
After repairing that, and while we were preparing to go on the air, we lost grid-power to the transmitting site due to a broken transmission line.
The energy company had to dispatch a crew to repair their lines. We finally went on the air two hours behind schedule.