So here we were at the radio station studio on September 11th, 2009. The announcer was talking about the terrorist attacks which took place a short distance away and how much it changed things around here. It was an interesting retrospective.
At 8:46 am, they had a moment of silence to mark when the first plane struck the World Trade Center. Then a little fizz, a a little crackle on the air, and the STL transmitter quit. Right there in the middle of the moment of silence.
The unit in question is a pair of the newer Moseley PCL 6010 transmitters with a TPT-2 automatic transmitter switcher. It did not switch over automatically during the failure, I had to run into the rack room and switch it over manually. The main transmitter, unit A, had high reflected power. When I switched to unit B, everything was fine.
After all was said and done, I checked all of the RF cables for loose connectors, there weren’t any. Then I switched back to transmitter A and all was normal. Creepy.
So on 9/11, we had a prolonged moment of silence in one of the weirder incidents I have ever witnessed.
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