Part II of II
This thing is on the air! There are still some tidying-up things to finish, but it is up and running and sounds great! Here are some pictures of various stages of the installation work:
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The filing cabinets hold manuals and spare parts. There is not a lot of room left in this building, so workspace is at a premium. The filing cabinet on the left needs some Windex and elbow grease.
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The transformer does not have a neutral reference to the power company. The neutral for the transmitter is derived from the Y output connection. The transformer is also designed to suppress harmonics from non-linear loads like switching power supplies.
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The wiring on the pump station and heat exchanger needs a little more work. The client wanted to get this on the air as soon as possible because they are in a book and were running at 50% power. Once things calm down a bit, I will put the backup transmitter on for an afternoon and properly dress the wires.
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I found this FM modulation analysis function on my spectrum analyzer very useful. The station deviates slightly more than the allocated 75 KHz because of a subcarrier. Overall, it looks good. I measured the harmonics out to the 10th harmonic, most of them were in the noise floor. A few made a slight appearance, but well within FCC tolerances. It is important to document this, as this site has colocated cellular carriers and several E911 services.
FCC part 73.317 states:
(d) Any emission appearing on a frequency removed from the carrier by more than 600 kHz must be attenuated at least 43 + 10 Log10 (Power, in watts) dB below the level of the unmodulated carrier, or 80 dB, whichever is the lesser attenuation.
47CFR 73.317
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The rest of the harmonics were measured down to -130 dB with the two NHP-200 high-pass filters in the circuit. The 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th harmonics were unmeasurable. The 8th, 9th, and 10th made slight appearances.
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Pretty close, the VNA was inserted at a patch panel, which is the last thing before the transmission line leaves the building. The transmitter goes through an ERI switchless combiner, which probably gives it a slightly better load.
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Aside from the finishing details, I need to keep an eye on this for a week or so and top off the Heat Transfer Fluid as needed. It takes a bit of time to get all of the air out of the coolant loop. Another thing; the operating pressure on this is 4 Bar, which is almost 60 PSI. That is higher than other liquid-cooled transmitter systems I have installed before.