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 2009/01/20  Report of Visited BCC Fengyuan Relay Station (next to Wun De Elementary School) [Hsin-ju Hsu]

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Participants:
Advising teachers: Director Hsun-de Cho, Mr. Bao-chia (teacher) Wu, Teacher Wei-chun Chang
Volunteers: Da-sheng Lin, Bao-chian Tzeng, Chun-ling Hsiao
Students: Ting-wei Hsu, Min-ching Hsieh, Ya-jun Hsu, Rong-cheng Liu, Hsin-ju Hsu, Tze-qi Lin, Hong-yu Hsu, Jun-hsian Hsu, Wei-wen Hsu, Jing-yu Hsu

The first day of Winter vacation, we went to visit Fengyuan Relay Station, which was next to our school. There were a lot of equipment and the electrical voltage of each was quite high. Also, one of the equipment was quite cold due to the AC being turned on high all the time – it was for heat dissipation. Going further inside, we saw the main switch for equipment power. There was this power generator, which was very expensive. One day, it was raining and the lighting struck the power generator. Because the power generator was expensive the repair fee was expensive. The worse part was that it used to be that the generator was struck twice by lighting each year. Therefore, they decided not to turn on the power generator during rainy days to avoid lighting strikes. I think they paid dearly for the year when the lighting struck twice.

Photo: Students asking Director Yang questions.

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 2009/01/20  Report of Visited BCC Fengyuan Relay Station (next to Wun De Elementary School)[Tze-qi Lin]

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Visited BCC Fengyuan Relay Station next to Wun De Elementary School. I saw some instruments for transmitting waves and for some of them, one had to line up two to receive signals. For others, each could receive the signal from any direction. It’s just that some had stronger signals and some had weaker. If the wave encountered a skyscraper, it would “do its best” to penetrate it and if it couldn’t penetrate, it would “get around” the skyscraper but the signal would be weaker. At Fengyuan Relay Station, monitors were used to see if there were any signal receiving issues for Wufeng and Puli; also if there were any malfunction with the equipment. For signals that couldn’t be received, they sent them through satellite. Sometimes, because of regional issues, programming can be different. For example, one could listen to “Good Evening, the Greater Taichung Area” in centralTaiwan, but one may not be able to listen to it in other places.

Photo: We monitored the broadcasting of different programs in this room
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 2009/01/20  Report of Visited BCC Fengyuan Relay Station (next to Wun De Elementary School)[Min-ching Hsieh]

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　I was visiting friend’s home on the first day of winter vacation when our teacher came and told us that he wanted to take us to tour Fengyuan Relay Station, next to our school. We saw many antennae when we walked upstairs and there were countless equipment, each had high voltage. As we walked we arrived at the equipment with AC turned on very high. Because the equipment gets very hot, so AC is used to dissipate heat for the equipment. We got to the inner most room and saw the main power switch as well as a power generator. I heard that Power generators were expensive and there were 2 inside! The staff member inside told us that during one thunder storm, the lighting struck the power generator. Because the power generator was expensive, the repair fee was quite expensive. But the worse part was that it got struck twice one year. Therefore, they turn off the power generator during rainy days to avoid lighting strikes. I think they probably used quite a bit of budget that year. However, they found ways to resolve the issue, otherwise something worse could’ve happened.

Photo: Director Yang says that they monitor the programming process 24 hours, including the programming at Wufeng and Puli.