{"id":6075,"date":"2013-01-13T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2023-04-08T20:19:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T00:19:45","slug":"oh-damn-la-tercera-parte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/oh-damn-la-tercera-parte\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh damn; La tercera parte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now where did those vise (vice?) grips go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vice<\/a>
Vise grip pliers used to clamp RF feed to tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Oh yeah, that’s right, they were used to attach the RF feed to an AM tower.  About ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vice<\/a>
Vise grip tower clamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From this view, it looks like whatever tower crew installed this tower could not manage to solder or braze the copper RF connection to the steel tower.  The area was then painted, but it looks like there is some corrosion going on between metals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vice<\/a>
Vise grips clamping RF feed to tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"AM<\/a>
AM broadcast tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a relatively new tower.  Sadly, it is very likely that this station will be going off the air soon.  If the station is still on the air come springtime, I will drag the brazing outfit across the field\/swamp and fix this.  If the station goes dark, then I won’t worry about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now where did those vise (vice?) grips go? Oh yeah, that’s right, they were used to attach the RF feed to an AM tower.  About ten years ago. From this view, it looks like whatever tower crew installed this tower could not manage to solder or braze the copper RF connection to the steel tower.  … Continue reading Oh damn; La tercera 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":[4],"tags":[87,33,18],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-am","tag-am-towers","tag-am-transmitter-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","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=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11465,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}