{"id":12543,"date":"2023-11-23T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2023-11-23T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:23:33","slug":"some-more-tv-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2023\/11\/some-more-tv-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More TV work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GatesAir contracted me to go to Utica, NY<\/a>, and do some repair work. WKTV<\/a> has a ULXTE-50 UHF transmitter which burned out an RF elbow between the UHF combiner in cabinet 1 and the UHF low pass filter for cabinet 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Burned-out RF parts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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3 Port UHF combiner, cover removed for cleaning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was a bunch of burned debris in the bottom; little bits of melted metal and plastic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bottom of UHF combiner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We first vacuumed out as much stuff as we could get. Then used an air compressor to blow the rest out and wiped everything down with clean rags and Windex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once that was done, the unit was reassembled and reinstalled in the transmitter. A new elbow, UHF low pass filter, and direction coupler were installed and the transmitter powered back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WKTV RF channel 29, 708 KW ERP, 990 foot (302M) tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The transmitter site is actually located north and slightly west of Little Falls, NY<\/a>. The station has been on the air since 1949 and the original GE transmitter is still in the garage. It was difficult to squeeze in and get a look at the transmitter, however, the operator’s console was out in the open:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GE TV control operator’s console, circa 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In most places, this would have been thrown out years ago. Now, it is a museum piece. Lots of interesting history in the Wikipedia article, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GatesAir contracted me to go to Utica, NY, and do some repair work. WKTV has a ULXTE-50 UHF transmitter which burned out an RF elbow between the UHF combiner in cabinet 1 and the UHF low pass filter for cabinet 1. There was a bunch of burned debris in the bottom; little bits of melted … Continue reading Some More TV work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[55,216],"class_list":["post-12543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-tv","tag-tv-transmitter-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543","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=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12561,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions\/12561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}