{"id":5452,"date":"2012-08-07T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2012-07-31T20:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T00:10:41","slug":"out-in-the-trenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/out-in-the-trenches\/","title":{"rendered":"Out in the Trenches"},"content":{"rendered":"

We fight for every scrap we can get. Sometimes it is not a fair fight. Sometimes the most frustrating thing can be the suits in the corner office.\u00a0 We eat, drink and sleep RF.\u00a0 I have transmitter dirt permanently embedding in my skin.\u00a0 If a thunderstorm passes by, I get my shoes on.\u00a0 Last time I was home during a blizzard, I was in high school, and believe me, that was a long time ago.\u00a0 I’ve been hot, cold, soaking wet, dirty, dusty, hungry and dehydrated all in the same day.\u00a0 Those days can be 8-36 hours long or longer.\u00a0 240 volts AC is low voltage.\u00a0 Arcs and sparks are a diagnostic tool.<\/p>\n

I have clip leaded things, used non-standard parts to get a transmitter back on the air, employed fans on power supplies, filed, cut, bent, tightened, burnished relay contacts, put plate transformers up on a block of wood and crossed my fingers while turned the plate supply on.<\/p>\n

My DVM looks like this:<\/p>\n

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Fluke 111 DVM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the best part is, when I walk into a radio station studio, the DJ says “THANK GOD YOU ARE HERE!”\u00a0 I don’t drive a fancy car or wear a fancy suit, but the respect I get is there, even with the young too cool for school guys on the CHR station.<\/p>\n

I am a broadcast engineer and I am here to fix your shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We fight for every scrap we can get. Sometimes it is not a fair fight. Sometimes the most frustrating thing can be the suits in the corner office.\u00a0 We eat, drink and sleep RF.\u00a0 I have transmitter dirt permanently embedding in my skin.\u00a0 If a thunderstorm passes by, I get my shoes on.\u00a0 Last time … Continue reading Out in the Trenches<\/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":[30],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-station-personel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452","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=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}