{"id":4632,"date":"2012-02-26T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2023-04-29T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T15:13:47","slug":"the-hard-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-hard-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"The hard restart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes there is just no way around it, especially with some modern equipment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-restart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-restart.jpg\" alt=\"Hard restart, Nautel VS2500 transmitter\" class=\"wp-image-4633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-restart.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-restart-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-restart-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-restart-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hard restart, Nautel VS2500 transmitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This Nautel VS2500 transmitter got all cranky after lightning struck the tower (or nearby) on Friday night.&nbsp; Thunderstorms in February are not unheard of, but they are unusual, at least in the Northeastern United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC_FM-transmitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC_FM-transmitter.jpg\" alt=\"Nautel VS2500 FM transmitter, WBEC-FM, Pittsfield, MA\" class=\"wp-image-4634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC_FM-transmitter.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC_FM-transmitter-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC_FM-transmitter-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC_FM-transmitter-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nautel VS2500 FM transmitter, WBEC-FM, Pittsfield, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, the transmitter would not reset or restart via remote control, therefore, we had to ride the chair lift to the top of the hill and pull the plug to reset its logic and start over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-chair-lift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-chair-lift.jpg\" alt=\"Bousquet Ski Area Chair lift\" class=\"wp-image-4635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-chair-lift.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-chair-lift-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-chair-lift-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WBEC-chair-lift-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bousquet Ski Area Chair lift<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At least the trip up to the transmitter site was scenic.&nbsp; We had to wait a day for the winds to calm down, but all in all, not a terrible day.&nbsp; Did I mention the scenery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes there is just no way around it, especially with some modern equipment: This Nautel VS2500 transmitter got all cranky after lightning struck the tower (or nearby) on Friday night.&nbsp; Thunderstorms in February are not unheard of, but they are unusual, at least in the Northeastern United States. Anyway, the transmitter would not reset or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-hard-restart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The hard restart<\/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":[215,15],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fm-transmitter-site","tag-fm-transmitters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","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=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11641,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions\/11641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}