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A thunderstorm on June 12 did more than dump heavy rains in the area and provide a spectacular light show. It caused a power outage at the radio cell towers on Carter’s Mountain, a 15-minute drive from central Grounds, which caused U.Va.’s FM radio station, WTJU , to go off the air.
"Lightning struck and knocked the power off," said Nathan Moore, general manager of WTJU. The cell towers’ power came back on three hours later, but the radio was still off-air. And that was a problem.
"The studio-transmitter link receiver at our transmitter site went down because lightning burned the power supply of that device," Moore explained. "Without power to that receiver, we couldn’t get audio to the transmitter."
Moore was told that a new power supply wouldn’t arrive until Tuesday. But he needed to be on-air immediately; he had DJs in the booth and the radio was web-streaming.
His solution: "I thought I could tether my phone to my laptop. Then I realized that I didn’t even need my laptop. I just streamed the station on my iPhone and connected it to our 600-watt radio transmitter." The radio signal had "good quality," Moore said. "We only had one real drop-out, and not until Tuesday morning."
Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted oniTunesU.
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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show on Wednesdays at 11:55 a.m. and Fridays at 3:55 p.m. and are archived on the UVA Today website. All of the segments are posted oniTunesU.
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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show on Wednesdays at 11:55 a.m. and Fridays at 3:55 p.m. and are archived on the UVA Today website. All of the segments are posted oniTunesU.
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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show on Wednesdays at 11:55 a.m. and Fridays at 3:55 p.m. and are archived on the UVA Today website. All of the segments are posted oniTunesU.
Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:
Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show on Wednesdays at 11:55 a.m. and Fridays at 3:55 p.m. and are archived on the UVA Today website. All of the segments are posted oniTunesU.
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As graduating students prepare to depart the Grounds, Joan Fry, a special assistant to the president, made a special plea this morning in an essay broadcast on public radio station WVTF: Please take your cats with you. While she has definitely enjoyed the company of some of the felines that have been left behind — perhaps to starve to death — she cannot save them all.
Meanwhile, the Office of Community Relations would like to remind students that if they have furniture and other household goods that they cannot take with them, there is a way to donate such items to charity: the annual “Sofa Shuffle.” In fact, there will be pickups at four off-Grounds sites on Monday (and a couple more in July if your lease runs out then).
Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted oniTunesU.
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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted oniTunesU.
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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted oniTunesU.
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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted oniTunesU.
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The poet T. S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month, but National Poetry Month aims to spread the word about the pleasures of poetry and its vital place in American culture. With U.Va.’s top-ranked Creative Writing Program in the College of Arts & Science’s English department, there’s no shortage of poets to call on for a good poem to soothe your soul.
This week, Rita Dove will read a poem, “Heart to Heart,” on the UVA Today Radio Show, which airs on WTJU 91.1 FM on Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. and on Friday at 3:55 p.m. Dove is U.Va. Commonwealth Professor of English and former poet laureate of the U.S. and of Virginia. Her recent poetry collections include “Sonata Mulattica,” “American Smooth,” “On the Bus with Rosa Parks” and “Mother Love.” She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1987 for “Thomas and Beulah.”
Next week, you can hear Stephen Cushman, who just published his fourth book of poetry, “Riffraff,” read a poem on the UVA Today Radio Show. Cushman, Robert C. Taylor Professor of English, teaches American poetry, from Walt Whitman to Lucinda Roy.
Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted oniTunesU.
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A thunderstorm on June 12 did more than dump heavy rains in the area and provide a spectacular light show. It caused a power outage at the radio cell towers on Carter’s Mountain, a 15-minute drive from central Grounds, which caused U.Va.’s FM radio station, 
The poet T. S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month, but 