{"id":8259,"date":"2015-01-23T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2023-03-26T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:17:05","slug":"winter-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/winter-is-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter! Is upon us…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What better time to take the gondola to K-1<\/a>? None, none at all.\u00a0 We do work for the two radio stations that are on the peak of Mount Killington<\/a>, near Rutland, Vermont.\u00a0 In the summer, usually, we can drive up there in a four-wheel drive truck.\u00a0 In the winter, the gondola is the way to go.\u00a0 On this day, there was a 48-56 inch base, light north winds, and air temperature around 10\u00b0 F (-12\u00b0 C) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ride up to Killington Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from Killington Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Transmitter buildings on Killington Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from Killington Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tower from Killington Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Killington
Killington STL dishes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"ERI
ERI antenna, WZRT\/WJJR Killington VT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The reason for the trip today; is repair work on the Nautel VS2.5 transmitter. All three power supplies and the power supply summing board needed to be replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What better time to take the gondola to K-1? None, none at all.\u00a0 We do work for the two radio stations that are on the peak of Mount Killington, near Rutland, Vermont.\u00a0 In the summer, usually, we can drive up there in a four-wheel drive truck.\u00a0 In the winter, the gondola is the way to … Continue reading Winter! Is upon us….<\/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":[17],"tags":[82,60,256],"class_list":["post-8259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenance","tag-fm","tag-fm-tower","tag-fm-transmitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259","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=8259"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11222,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions\/11222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}