[BC] Florida Keys

[Chuck Lakaytis]

That reminds me of the time when I was maintaining some high power ISB 
transmitters for the US Army in Europe.  I got called in when a grid 
current overload relay kept tripping on a 50 KW transmitter.  Turned out 
that the shunt resistor across the relay had changed value considerably 
increasing in value.  Made me the hero of the day, but I still had to 
run the floor buffer on swing trick.  The Army has to keep its real 
priorities don't yah know!

On 11/29/2010 12:04 PM, Charles Wooten NF4A wrote:
> In 1984 or 85, I was called to Big Pine Key to work on that station that
> Dave Hultsman mentioned....the one with the 140 foot self supporting tower
> with a 12 bay antenna on it......the transmitter was an Elcom-Bauer and was
> off the air due to plate overloads and several of the local engineers had
> tried to fix it. They flew me down from the Panhandle (where I still live
> today) to fix it since no one else could seem to find the problem. I quickly
> found the problem, an open 10 or 12 ohm resistor across the coil of the
> plate overload relay. The closest parts house was in Miami so the manager of
> the station called out to the VOA site at Marathon and asked the engineer
> there (who had tried to fix the Elcom) if he had a resistor. We ended up
> driving to Marathon and found a resistor and I got a full tour of the site
> while I was there.
>
> Charlie Wooten
> Clear Channel Radio
> Panama City, FL
>
>

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Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering, Alaska Public Broadcasting
135 Cordova Street, Anchorage, AK 99501
office   907-277-6300