{"id":4500,"date":"2012-01-28T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2012-01-28T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T13:45:32","slug":"work-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/work-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have this guy that works for us who is atypical. We call him Pete because that is his name. \u00a0The other day, he was slacking off on the job again, this time figuring out how to take a nap in a transmitter:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4504\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wrki-transmitter-work.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4504\" title=\"wrki transmitter work\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wrki-transmitter-work-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"Pete working on a Harris FM25K\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wrki-transmitter-work-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wrki-transmitter-work-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wrki-transmitter-work-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wrki-transmitter-work-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wrki-transmitter-work.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete working on a Harris FM25K<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What are we going to do with him?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, he is rebuilding the grid tuning section (AKA input tuning section), which is no small matter. \u00a0Soon, we will have this 26 year old transmitter running good as new, or better than new. \u00a0It already sounds much better on the air than it did before, the input tuning is broader and there is much less AM noise.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, it is running about 70% power while we wait for a replacement amplifier from Silicon Valley Power Amps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have this guy that works for us who is atypical. We call him Pete because that is his name. \u00a0The other day, he was slacking off on the job again, this time figuring out how to take a nap in a transmitter: What are we going to do with him? Actually, he is rebuilding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/work-ethic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work Ethic<\/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":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fm-transmitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}