WHHI RETURNED TO FULL POWER

To the applause of area listeners, Ideas 91.3 WHHI-FM, serving southwest Wisconsin from a transmitter site near Highland, was heroically restored to full power by a persistent team of engineers!

Following several weeks of operating at low power, engineers and tower crews completed work on replacing and retuning the antenna's transmission line in mid December. The work was completed despite several weeks of ice and snow storms that resulted in rather severe working conditions at times.

WHHI had been operating at reduced power since a problem was detected in the transmission line of the station's antenna system in early November. A connection problem within this line resulted in electrical arcing and subsequent damage, requiring replacement of about one-third of a nearly 300-foot segment of antenna line connecting the transmitter to the antenna on the 500-foot WHHI broadcast tower.

Thank you for your patience as our engineers and tower crews worked diligently to return WHHI to full power. Thanks also to those of you who have passed along your appreciation for a "job well done."

In 15 degree weather, tower riggers begin hoisting a replacement transmission line up 500' to the WHHI antenna on Tuesday, December 11, 2007.