{"id":10981,"date":"2023-03-10T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T23:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T23:39:15","slug":"continental-816r2-still-chugging-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2023\/03\/continental-816r2-still-chugging-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental 816R2 still chugging along"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Had to do some work at a transmitter site today and had to put the backup transmitter on the air for a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1195\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171148209.MP_-1195x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171148209.MP_-1195x900.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171148209.MP_-650x489.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171148209.MP_-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171148209.MP_-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171148209.MP_-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171148209.MP_-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">WFLY backup transmitter, on the air<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These were good units in their day and many continue on.  This transmitter was new in 1986 and served as the main transmitter until 2015 or so.  This unit still has the tube driver (4CX250B) which tended to use a set of tubes every year or so.  The PA tube normally lasted 4 years or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1195\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171200407.MP_-1195x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171200407.MP_-1195x900.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171200407.MP_-650x489.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171200407.MP_-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171200407.MP_-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171200407.MP_-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PXL_20230310_171200407.MP_-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Meters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I miss the analog meters sometimes.   There is something satisfying watching all the meters come up together when the plate on button is pushed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had to do some work at a transmitter site today and had to put the backup transmitter on the air for a few minutes. These were good units in their day and many continue on. This transmitter was new in 1986 and served as the main transmitter until 2015 or so. This unit still has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2023\/03\/continental-816r2-still-chugging-along\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continental 816R2 still chugging along<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-fm-transmitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","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=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10987,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions\/10987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}