I wrote up a correction and an apology to yesterdays post on the power outage, I was sure that I hit the publish button, sure looks like that is not the case.
So to re hash; the power outage yesterday morning was the scheduled outage that I mistakenly mentioned would be from 3 to 4:30 pm. I dumbucked and apologize to any and all, if any and all give a dam.
Lesson leaned; read the public notices with my glasses on.
I for one will be glad when the weather warms up when there will be less likelihood of any major issues if our power does go off un-expectantly. This ordeal must be/is putting undue stresses on many people, including me.
People are out taking walks on the harbor ice lately, a sure sign of warming trends, if you consider -16 as a warming trend. Nice and sunny with not a lot of wind, very nice indeed.
Another lesson leaned these past couple of weeks; don’t let telephone company management get away with telling you that “your problem is fixed’ when you have it on good authority that it is not fixed.
It might take a lot of aggro and effort, but there is always away around these people, you just have to know how to navigate, no one is perfect [as proved above] or correct all the time.
The reason for that little rant is; after two weeks of dealing with the telephone company the radio distribution line to the rest of the coast and Goose Bay is finely back up and free of interference.
The radio technical advisor always insisted that the loss of the feed, and then a double feed when it was restored, was always a telephone company issue. The telephone company guys on the ground finely admitted that something they did was causing the double feed, but could not, or were not given the time, to track it down.
The radio technical advisor flew in and had the problem identified and fixed within an hour, all be it the telephone guys had narrowed things down. But it was still a telephone company defect; the male plug on the end of a telephone line was the cause of all the grief [an open circuit], a simple crimp and no more double feed.
The general hypothesis of what went wrong goes like this: Telephone company puts in upgraded telephone capacity into the area of town that has the radio station, radio transmitters and other business buildings.
The defective plug worked OK before the line upgrade but the new larger telephone line acted like an antenna, precipitating the open circuit to pick up RF from the transmitter site and bleed over the top of the intended radio signal. That is my understanding of it all, but then????.
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Warming trend coming here too. Forecast for 40c next Wednesday and Thursday and I've been asked to train a new MR those 2 days! Might just do it from the A/C car.
You certainly have been suffering from technical difficulties recently up there in the North.
Well Dogbait, why not do an “estimated” reading, that’s what happens over here during “inclement” weather conditions. You and buddy could site in an air-conditioned tea room and “estimate” to your hearts content.
And yes Ex Sham, the problems are not confined to the radio station, other businesses are still having problems since the “increased capacity” was installed. It is an inconvenience for staff and customers. The telephone company is having staffing issues in Labrador, bringing in people from outside the region unfamiliar with the system here is the major hold back in getting everything straightened away.
That's what a MR did once before he got the bullet. Sat under a shady tree punching any old numbers.
Hard ol mob down your way. It was not my intent to encourage breaching of any corporate protocols. Up this way “estimated” is allowed by the corporation under certain circumstances, one is inclement weather, another would be staff shortages at the reading date.
If such occasion should arise “estimated” is printed next to the total kwh used
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