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St. Stanislaus School is the home of WOPG's broadcast studio. We are on the third floor in the front of the building with windows you can see here, facing south. Dec. 2009 |
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Fr. David and Gretchen are showing Mike, Pat and Laura the building. Don't you love the front door? |
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The bell is now inside the school on the second floor. With your help this building will be call out to our community again via radio. |
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The studio layout is on paper. We have the furnishings. We need to do some painting and building to get it in working order. |
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We have moved some of the school furnishing into the studio to see how it looks. Laura is cleaning the business desk. The computer location is right behind her. March 2009 |
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Tom is trying out the broadcast desk, It will not be long until the microphone is working. |
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Local content is very important to WOPG.
A satellite dish will be installed behind the school. We will receive programing from all over the nation.
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From the studio the programing will be transmitted to the Cherry Valley tower. The tower equipment shed will house the transmitter and back- up generator. |
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Count them, eleven microwave dishes which will be coming off, replaced by a FM antenna tuned to 89.9 MHz |
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Technical experts Buc Fitch, our radio engineer and John Woods, a RPI engineering professor examine the tower base. |
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A 200 foot tower needs a good anchor system and we have one. |
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The transmitter room needs a new floor and removal of some of the wave guide cables. We will build 19" equipment racks for the transmitter and other equipment. Ron, on the right is the seller's senior field representative |
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In case of electricity outage WOPG has a 15 kVA propane powered generator to keep us on the air. |
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The view of the Mohawk River valley can just be seen through the brush. WOPG has an excellent transmitter site. |
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The studio walls get a fresh green color. April 2010 |
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The studio ceiling is 13 feet high, painting is diffcult. |
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May 3, 2010 Buc and Bill, our radio engineers run the Broadcast Equipment (BE) 1.5A transmitter up to full power. Everything looks good. It is now ready to be moved to the tower. |
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The Cherry Valley tower equipment shed gets a thorough cleaning, a new floor and painting in preparation for receiving the transmitter and other electronics. |
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May 11, 2010 the transmitter departs for the Cherry Valley tower. The specification says it weighs 900 pounds, the base contains several transformers, the "iron". |
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This satellite dish will be traveling with the transmitter. |
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The truck is loaded with large equipment for the studio and tower. 4" posts for satellites dishes on right side. Between the Mikes is the file cabined and 19" rack for the studio. To the left is satellite dish and transmitter hidden behind. |
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The filing cabinet is carried to the 3rd floor studio, a thought carry up the stairs. We will get younger men to bring up the 19" equipment rack. The studio's new paint has dried, just some tape to remove. |
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We are all smiling the transmitter is in it new home. This is a joyful day for so may reasons. Please thank God in your paryers for keeping us safe. |
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May 27, a jack hammer is rented to dig the satellite post hole; this mountain is made of rock. In the afternoon we mix 540 pounds of concrete with water transported in 5 gal. pales from the stream at the access road entrance. John says "I now know I can do an honest day's work" |
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One week later with the concrete set the satellite dish and its LNB (Low Noise Box) are re-assembled on the post. |
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With compass and protractor we set the azimuth and elevation of the dish to the Galaxy 17 satellite. To our delight we find the programming, it is right up there. |
