A phone conversation that occurred one Saturday morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DJ<\/strong>: (answers hotline) Hello?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Myself<\/strong>:\u00a0 This is Paul from Radio Engineering Services, you called the answering service and said you are off the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DJ<\/strong>: Yes! The red bat light is flashing and everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Myself<\/strong>: Okay, did you try to put the backup transmitter on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n DJ<\/strong>: No. I didn’t want to mess anything up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Myself<\/strong>: You are off the air; I don’t know how things can be more messed up than that<\/p>\n\n\n\n DJ<\/strong>: (laughing) Okay, you’re right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Myself<\/strong>: Do you have the directions for the backup transmitter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n DJ<\/strong>: Yes, they are right here<\/p>\n\n\n\n Myself<\/strong>: Okay, go ahead and do that, I will call the local engineer and see if I can get him out to the transmitter site, then I will call you back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DJ<\/strong>: Okay, thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news is the backup transmitter came on and they were back on the air. It is also nice to know that the station has a live DJ on Saturday morning at 7:00 am, many do not. The main transmitter power outage was likely due to a utility company transient, the area had suffered an ice storm the day before and they were out restoring power that morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At least this was a real emergency, I used to get calls at home that the headphone jack on the console was loose. I took the home phone number down after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A phone conversation that occurred one Saturday morning: DJ: (answers hotline) Hello? Myself:\u00a0 This is Paul from Radio Engineering Services, you called the answering service and said you are off the air. DJ: Yes! The red bat light is flashing and everything! Myself: Okay, did you try to put the backup transmitter on? DJ: No. … Continue reading We are off the air!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-djs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11417,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions\/11417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}