{"id":5869,"date":"2012-12-03T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:07:06","slug":"oh-damn-la-segunda-parte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/12\/oh-damn-la-segunda-parte\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh,  damn: la segunda parte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emergency! The (AM) Transmitter keeps popping off the air and we can&#8217;t figure out why! YOU MUST HELP US!!1!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AM-problems.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AM-problems-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"Some problems are easy to spot, difficult to fix\" class=\"wp-image-5878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AM-problems-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AM-problems-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AM-problems-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AM-problems-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AM-problems.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some problems are easy to spot, difficult to fix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, with the ATU mounted about 1\/4 inch away from the 90-degree, series-excited tower, I wonder why.\u00a0 It seemed to be especially problematic during rain, snow, and ice storms.\u00a0\u00a0 When I asked how long this had been going on, I was told &#8220;About two years, ever since we put up the new tower!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We finally took care of this by moving the ATU back inside the shed after moving the transmitter to a different building.&nbsp; The funny thing is, this was installed by a guy who had a BSEE.&nbsp; I guess he must have been out sick the day they covered this in class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency! The (AM) Transmitter keeps popping off the air and we can&#8217;t figure out why! YOU MUST HELP US!!1!!! Really? Well, with the ATU mounted about 1\/4 inch away from the 90-degree, series-excited tower, I wonder why.\u00a0 It seemed to be especially problematic during rain, snow, and ice storms.\u00a0\u00a0 When I asked how long this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/12\/oh-damn-la-segunda-parte\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh,  damn: la segunda parte<\/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":[33,18],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-am-towers","tag-am-transmitter-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","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=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11479,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/11479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}