Spring Break... In more ways than one.

This week hasn't been terribly productive in terms of projects.  The engineering staff of WSBF, after returning from spring break, found that a lot of things had broken while we were gone and we spent a good bit of this week repairing them.  Sometime over spring break the university shut the power off and I assume that was the cause of most of our problems.  First, the computer monitor in studio A died on us.  We found the capacitors inside had blown, which wasn't a surprise because it's pretty common in this brand of monitor and, in fact, the other monitor we have had the same problem about a year ago.  We ordered some more capacitors and the monitor will be fixed as soon as they get here.  Next up, the computer that transcodes the audio for the web stream died on us.  In a hurry to get it back up, we just put the hard drive and audio card in another computer and it worked immediately.  The website spent a good bit of time down after the the power outage and once the server came back up archiving wasn't working.  Zach Musgrave and David Cohen fixed those issues, so they can blog about that if they want.  I am pleased that when automation crashed over the break (as it always does) that silence detection and my backup automation software (which has been running on a computer at the transmitter since November) kicked in and picked up the slack.  I'll post more about that whole system one day in the future.