[IMC-Tech] Server/Transmitter Room Issues

[Mike Lehman]

Dan and Zach,
Thanks for the update. I strongly suspect that whoever was setting up 
the remote at the studio turned off the transmitter by mistake. AFAIK, 
if the transmitter is showing 0 on the control software, then it's is 
off the air. So, in the absence of a better explanation, I think they 
intended to set-up the studio for a remote, but ended up turning off the 
transmitter instead.
Mike Lehman

dan blah wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Can someone give a short explanation of why we continue to have
>> intermittent problems with the server/transmitter room. Is the power
>> going out or is just a connectivity problem with the network?
>>
>
> as zach said, we are not having network issues... just imsahp issues.
> when imsahp is not accessible from its outside ip, i am able to get to
> it from its internal address.  we are working on this problem.
>
>> The reason I ask is, in part, due to the problem WRFU had last night.
>> Ray Morales was trying to do a remote broadcast, which failed. He says
>> that the studio computer was disconnected from the internet, but in fact
>> the transmitter seems to have been off, as no signal at all was going
>> out. If it was just an internet problem, then the transmitter should
>> have stayed on and just given dead air. It is also possible that
>> connectivity in the internal network could have been lost between the
>> studio and the transmitter, which would explain why it knocked the
>> transmitter off the air.
>>
> as i understand it, the only way to actually turn the power off on the
> transmitter is to go upstairs and unplug it.  i am assuming when ray
> says the transmitter was off that he means the transmitter check
> software said it was off.  this means someone turned off the
> transmitter but did not power it off.  if this wasnt the case, then he
> would not have been able to turn it back on unless he physically went
> upstairs (which i dont think he has access too).
>
> in the past the transmitter has been turned off (not powered down) on
> accident.  i am assuming this happened again.
>
>> In any case, I was again unable reach the IMC website or any of the
>> groogroo mailing lists this morning between about 10:15am and 11:45am.
>> It has come back up, but given only intermittent connectivity since. It
>> loads about half the editor's webpage and then quits.This has gotten to
>> be a major problem and we need to make it a top priority to get it
>> resolved. It's like owning a car that is always in the shop and still
>> having to make payments on something that won't get you around the 
>> block.
>> Mike Lehman
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