{"id":4085,"date":"2011-11-02T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:49:23","slug":"quality-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/quality-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality gear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went to put the HD transmitter back on the air for WEBE yesterday, to be confronted with this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Deathstar-HD-radio-exciter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Deathstar-HD-radio-exciter.jpg\" alt=\"Harris Deathstar HD radio exciter\" class=\"wp-image-4094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Deathstar-HD-radio-exciter.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Deathstar-HD-radio-exciter-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Deathstar-HD-radio-exciter-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Deathstar-HD-radio-exciter-400x318.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harris Deathstar HD radio exciter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Swearing ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fault is with the RF upconverter, which is unlocked. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t know why the GPS is unlocked, I&#8217;ll have to climb up on the roof and look at the antenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why again, are we bothering with this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to put the HD transmitter back on the air for WEBE yesterday, to be confronted with this: Swearing ensued. The fault is with the RF upconverter, which is unlocked. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t know why the GPS is unlocked, I&#8217;ll have to climb up on the roof and look at the antenna. Why again, are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/quality-gear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quality gear<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[303,89],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hd-radio","tag-hd-radio","tag-iboc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","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=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11688,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions\/11688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}