Hurricane Irma: Thank you to all of our listeners who have inquired about our
hurricane plans. At the moment (early Wednesday local time), it appears that
the eye of Hurricane Irma will come right over or very close to Okeechobee by
Sunday or Monday. We will stay on the air as long as possible and as long as
it's safe. Our transmitter building is quite prepared to withstand most
hurricanes, and our antennas have survived many hurricanes in the past with
little damage. However, electrical power generally goes out during or after
most strong hurricanes, and our generator will only power our lights,
computers and air conditioning. Unfortunately we don't have enough generator
power to operate 14 x 100-kilowatt transmitters. So if the power goes out, we
are off the air. We may have enough power to maintain one frequency on the
air even during a power outage, and it looks like this will probably be 9455
kHz. At the moment, our Internet is down, but we hope it will be back up
soon, although it could go out again later. We'll keep you informed as best
we can. Thanks again for your interest. (via BDXC-UK yg 1438 UT Sept 6 via
DXLD)
Most WRMI frequencies were JBA or off(?) this morning during severe geomag storm of another kind (gh)
