{"id":5837,"date":"2012-11-23T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:09:39","slug":"hf-broadcasting-station-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/hf-broadcasting-station-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"HF broadcasting station maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This video shows some of the maintenance required for an HF (AKA Shortwave) broadcast station. It starts with transmission line tensioning, some shots of a curtain array then goes on to show the inside of a transmitter building. Transmitters shown are Harris HF-100 (a 1980&#8217;s model tube type PDM design) and Continental 418, but I didn&#8217;t see the letter number. They are likely tube-modulated units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZuThNVJ1vo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are from the international service of Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Australia<\/a> International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows some of the maintenance required for an HF (AKA Shortwave) broadcast station. It starts with transmission line tensioning, some shots of a curtain array then goes on to show the inside of a transmitter building. Transmitters shown are Harris HF-100 (a 1980&#8217;s model tube type PDM design) and Continental 418, but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/hf-broadcasting-station-maintenance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HF broadcasting station maintenance<\/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":[231,8],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hf","tag-transmitter-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","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=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}