{"id":10743,"date":"2022-08-12T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=10743"},"modified":"2023-09-28T06:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T10:57:57","slug":"a-little-bit-of-catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-little-bit-of-catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A little bit of catching up…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I regret not having enough time for writing these days. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, much of what I do running my business is mundane and not worth noting. For example; today I am going over work reports and reconciling the bank account. Necessary, but about as exciting as watching the grass grow or reading about drying paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the rest of the time I have been working on various projects around the northeast, to wit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Boston, I took part in converting an LPTV station to ATSC 3.0. That was interesting and I am enjoying the TV work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WCRN-LD exciter GUI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Boris Johnson resigns, also one of the first ATSC 3.0 images transmitted OTA in Boston, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Syracuse, we had to lower a TV transmitter from the 23rd floor to the 22nd floor on the outside of the building. The transmitter itself became marooned because an electrical conduit for an alarm system was installed restricting the size of the stairwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carefully lowering a 2KW UHF TV transmitter, State Tower Building, Syracuse, NY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Transmitter re-assembled and on the air<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, we hired a moving company to do this. I am pretty sure that our insurance does not cover damages from transmitters falling 22 stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In NYC, I installed two FLX-40 transmitters for GatesAir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WXBK FLX-40 transmitters, Rutherford, NJ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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FLX-40 Heat Exchangers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cDo you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.\u201d \u201cTake care, sir,<\/em> those over there are not giants but buildings on the island of Manhattan.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Kingston, NY a used BE AM1A (along with a coax switch and dummy load) was installed at WKNY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slightly used BE AM1A installed as backup at WKNY, Kingston, NY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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7\/8 inch coax switch and 2.5 KW oil cooled test load suspended from the ceiling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is nice that this station has a decent backup transmitter to buttress the aging, yet very reliable Nautel ND-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though it is a short drive away, I had never visited the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair site in Bethel, NY. It was interesting and being sort of an audiophile, I enjoyed this exhibit in particular:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your author, standing in front of a “Woodstock Bin.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back of high-frequency horns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From the display:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This speaker stack sat on scaffolding high in the air… festival sound engineer Bill Hanley custom-built eight speaker cabinets for Woodstock, amplifying music and stage announcements across the large festival site… Afterward, the design would be known in the industry as the “Woodstock Bin.”<\/p>\nBethal Woods Performing Arts center Museum, August 10, 2022<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The high-frequency horns used Electrovoice diaphragm S\/A compression drivers. I don’t know which driver was used for the bins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Site of Woodstock ’69 stage, looking up into the field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking down from the field to the stage area. Person(s) for scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am also writing articles for Radio Guide, I hope that you are enjoying them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I regret not having enough time for writing these days. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, much of what I do running my business is mundane and not worth noting. For example; today I am going over work reports and reconciling the bank account. Necessary, but about as exciting as watching the … Continue reading A little bit of catching up…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,337],"tags":[32,319,15,323,55],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-installations","tag-am-transmitters","tag-audiophile","tag-fm-transmitters","tag-lptv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743","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=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}