Record Number of Stations to Participate in 2010 FCC-Sanctioned Nevada ABIP
Adrienne Abbott, the highly respected, well-liked and competent consultant engineer of the Nevada Broadcasters Association has begun a series of ABIP inspections that will continue throughout the year. She has indicated that we will have a record number of Nevada stations inspected this year.
The inspections in Northern Nevada are being scheduled and under way as weather permits. She is also about to start scheduling the Southern Nevada stations for their inspections, and is scheduled to return to Las Vegas in June.
Our east coast readers may find the following report from Adrienne to be very interesting:
"The Northern Nevada station inspections are underway as much as the weather is letting us do. I had one trip up Slide Mountain via snowcat that was very productive as I inspected three TV stations and two radio stations. There was so much snow that we had to go into every building from the roof or the second story balcony.
We have had two storms since then and the winds from last week's storm were so strong that they took a number of radio stations and one TV station off the air for several hours. The winds also took out the back up transmitters on McClellanPeak so stations up there were also off the air. The problem was mainly related to NV Energy power outages and generator problems. I think McClellanPeak is probably going to be inaccessible until early June just like last year. Our border inspections will resume when the weather clears at transmitter sites around Lake Tahoe. I have been told that there still is snow in Elko and GrindstonePeak which is inaccessible right now. Martin Stabbert from Citadel together with Bob Fisher and I are planning to go out next month to spend some time working in Elko. Here is what is already contracted for 2010: LAS VEGAS AND SOUTHERN NEVADA: 19 STATIONS. RENO AND NORTHERN NEVADA: 16 STATIONS. EASTERN NEVADA: SIX STATIONS."
