W1DAN doing some Maintaining

[W1TAV]

Between all the recent snow falls in New England, I was up to the WBZ, WGBH, WGBX, WSBK and assorted other Boston stations transmitter site in Needham MA Where I caught W1DAN - Dan Brown  Maintenance Engineer at WGBH doing some "maintaining" with a snow shovel! As an emergency service provider to the broadcast and communications industry, I love my job at FM Generator and the access it allows to see up close the many historic tower sites in the Northeast, along with visiting with fellow Hams that are in the broadcast industry  Steve - W1TAV

[N2DTS]

Its fun getting in places, I work for 'a phone company' and get in all over. anyplace that uses/has voice or data circuits and equipment.
These days that is everywhere.

[W2VW]

So the television transmitters up there are powered by snow?

[W1ITT]

Decades ago, when we all studied for our First Class Radiotelephone tickets, we believed those pictures that showed Real Broadcast Engineers in white shirts and narrow black neckties, sitting at consoles and fixing transmitters with big coils.  There were even a few pictures of classy women, looking admiringly at Real Broadcast Engineers.  One could only imagine what was going on in their feminine minds.  It was going to be a really cool high-tech job: we just knew it!
But there were a few things they didn't tell us when we signed on....

[kb3ouk]

Its fun getting in places, I work for 'a phone company' and get in all over. anyplace that uses/has voice or data circuits and equipment.
These days that is everywhere.

Sounds like me, I work for a company that does phone systems, data/voice cabling, data networking, etc. Its interesting with some of the places we get to, installing a phone system in a doctors office one day, then another day on a construction site running cable.

[N2DTS]

FBI, FAA, nuclear plants, secret service, various tower sites, coast guard sites, banks, factories, retail stores, hospitals, casino's, train stations, malls, I get in everyplace.
I also do satellite stuff for business, went down to New Orleans after Katrina to set up earth stations in the area.

 

[W6TOM]

  My sister in Kingston, MA and my other sister in Wareham, MA have been sending me pictures of Snowaggeon, got a fresh batch yesterday. The last time I spent an entire winter in New England was 1970, I don't miss that ^#%* at all!!

   I'm a communications technician for the local utility company, started in the communications construction department, got to go to a lot of mountain tops in Northern California, loved it too. Spent a summer at a hydro project installing a 450 radio system.

   Took a job with the local maintenance department but I still do a lot of radio and go to various mountain tops around the Bay Area. The picture is taken early on a December morning from a site on Mount Tamalpais across the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County. Just another day at the "office" and my father wanted me to be an accountant !!!

[W6TOM]

 Can't resist, a few more pictures. Always take a camera when you go up the mountain!!

 Mount Oso, the white line way off in the distance is the snow covered Sierra Nevada Mountains a 100 miles away. I went up there in the Spring, the road is 10 miles long and all dirt plus you need to ford a stream in several places.

 Sun rise just coming up to the summit of Loma Prieta looking east to the coast range.

 And I get paid for this too!!!

[K6JEK]

Can't resist, a few more pictures. Always take a camera when you go up the mountain!!

 Mount Oso, the white line way off in the distance is the snow covered Sierra Nevada Mountains a 100 miles away. I went up there in the Spring, the road is 10 miles long and all dirt plus you need to ford a stream in several places.

 Sun rise just coming up to the summit of Loma Prieta looking east to the coast range.

 And I get paid for this too!!!

Cruel, Tom, cruel it is to post those pictures on a thread about the New England guys up to their armpits in snow digging out their sites while freezing their buns off.

[n1exi]

when ever im in front of a microphone i wear a jacket and tie!
no shirt
greg - n1exi

[n1exi]

lived in new hampshire for years - after when i moved there a snowfall about 5 feet - 500 foot long driveway up the hill - thought i could dig it out - boys and girls i was wrong - trudged back to qth and called for a plow 60 bux - money well spent - dont have a leg but still my back - learned something - it pays sometimes to pay - getting too old for this - sailboat - key west - drop a mooring ball - dingy - and mast ant and  fuel for a
generator -yeah - im dreaming - sometimes they come true - just gotta make it happen!

greg -n1exi

[Pete, WA2CWA]

Key West in October is great except for the occasional hurricane plowing through.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

It was 72 and sunny here in NC on Sunday. Been cooling off all week, back to teens-30s over the weekend. Aside from the occasional warm day or two, it's been another colder-than-normal winter here. Funny to listen to the reports from up north. Guess a lot of folks moved there from fair climates during the warm point of the 40+ yr wx cycle hence the megasnow hype. We had many feet of snow every winter when I was a kid in VT. 70s-90s it waned. My last winter there ('07/'08) we had over ten feet. I recall standing on snowbanks so tall I could look down on the top of my dad's hat while he ran the snow blower and I knocked the tops off the banks to make more room.

I loved winter up there, not for the snow and cold but for the opportunity to fire up the transmitter and help out the heating bill. Not much else to do.

[kb3ouk]

FBI, FAA, nuclear plants, secret service, various tower sites, coast guard sites, banks, factories, retail stores, hospitals, casino's, train stations, malls, I get in everyplace.
I also do satellite stuff for business, went down to New Orleans after Katrina to set up earth stations in the area.

 

Yea, do a lot of those too, banks, factories, doctors offices, stores, malls, labratories. One lab wanted us to put a few data cables in one of their rooms, but the catch was we had to have a lab coat, safety glasses, etc. on because they weren't stopping their work for us, sure made trying to move around interesting with that thing always getting in the way.

[N2DTS]

A lot of places require a clean suit.
Food and drug processing places...

[kd1nw]

Cool great to see the guys behind the scenes at those stations. Im actually able to get them here in S. R.I.