Hi Everyone.

Though I am not a part of our station's Sunday team (I run the Saturday team) I'd like to apologise on behalf of the station for yesterday's non coverage.

First of all I thank the demonland board for allowing us to post for whenever we do cover Sandringham games.

From what I gather (I have heard this 2nd hand) there seemed to be a technical malfunction at Williamstown on Sunday.

To explain how we broadcast - unlike other stations we don't use delay-free CODECS (as we don't have the $14,000 for them), we stream via wireless broadband back to our studios which puts us on a 30-45 second delay. (On saturdays with set up an 87.9 FM Local Transmitter for delay free coverage).

On Saturdays we use a 3G Modem, while the Sunday team and their techo use a Telstra Modem. From what I can gather, it seems they couldn't get a signal or the computer that day didn't like the modem and we could not establish a link between the ground and the studio.

I believe that Sunday techo is going to get a 3G mobile modem thing to use as a back up next time.

Again on behalf of the station I apologise for the non-broadcast - it's the first time we've failed to put nothing of a scheduled game to air and we hope it never happens again.

I thank you for your support so far, not just of our station 1611 AM, but of the other community stations that cover VFL including Casey radio and 3WBC.

Peter Holden

(Saturday VFL Calling Team - 1611 AM)

Props for posting an explanation here.

Agree. Noted the 80s and 90s music was not from Williamstown.

Thanks for the explanation.

Thanks Peter... Good on you.