{"id":10249,"date":"2019-10-04T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2023-03-19T09:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T13:03:25","slug":"something-is-not-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/something-is-not-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Something is not right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Goddamnitnotagain edition:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10257\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PA-module.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PA-module.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PA-module.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PA-module-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PA-module-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PA-module-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PA-module-675x900.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PA-module-383x510.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PA module with burned open output transformer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I went to do maintenance at one of our sites and noticed that a certain transmitter was running at half power. Followed the path of the fault log and found this. When I mentioned it to the station staff, they said, &#8220;Yeah, we noticed it sounded a little funny&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time this has happened with this particular transmitter. In any case, this is what I get paid for, so I am certainly not complaining. If only every problem where this easy to find.<\/p>\n<p>When I get back out there to replace this, I will bring out my network analyzer and sweep the antenna and transmission line to make sure there are no issues with that. In addition, I will double-check all the grounding to make sure the copper thieves have not made off with any critical components like the ground buss bar or #2 solid down lead wires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Goddamnitnotagain edition: I went to do maintenance at one of our sites and noticed that a certain transmitter was running at half power. Followed the path of the fault log and found this. When I mentioned it to the station staff, they said, &#8220;Yeah, we noticed it sounded a little funny&#8230;&#8221; This is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/something-is-not-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something is not right<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[215,15],"class_list":["post-10249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maintenance","category-tales-of-disaster","tag-fm-transmitter-site","tag-fm-transmitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11068,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions\/11068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}