Tech Notes from the Field

One week ago I was working for 10 hours due to a power outage. Cut right into that 3-day weekend. Cable fried. A new one, too. Thursday-Friday we had to endure 12+ hours of no power due to a mistake and poor systems. Cut right into my day off.

These are only some of the things we endure as broadcast engineers. NOC techs and the like understand. We do what we can to keep systems alive when there is no hope in doing such tasks.

Now what is the likely hood that we will experience another prolonged outage in the near future? I hope we got most of them out of our system by now. Of course it is now the reality of owners to decide whether they will invest in better infrastructure or not. Let’s see where this goes!

Hope your week will be better!