[BC] Remote damage

[Ron Cole]

I used to use a Scala yagii, it uses a Type-N connector.  For some reason
the Remote guy kept turning the whole body not just the ring and would twist
the connector off the coax.  He would the just shove the coax back into the
connector an take it on with Duct Tape or Gaffers tape.  The next remote
would not work because of a shorted coax.
>From that point made sure they have spare coax cables in the van.

Ron


On 5/31/06, Charles Ring W3NU <charlesr at infonline.net> wrote:
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>
> >
> >> That's based on the mangled mic cords, broken headsets, bent and broken
> >> antennas and trashed Marti transmitters that I had to fix again and
> >> again
> >> over the years.
> >> I have too many stores..
> >> Ron
>
> My favorite was the SO-239 smashed off the back of a Marti RPT-30 by a
> local sports guy who was too important to handle equipment decently.
> Until then I had thought smashing the exterior of one of those couldn't
> be done other than deliberately.
>
> On another occasion I had two tube Marti's damaged when they were
> plugged in to 240 volts, the spare one after the first one wouldn't
> work. This time it wasn't the station guy's fault as an idiot
> electrician had wired 240 volts to two outdoor 120V receptacles. An
> appliance store with its own electrician, scary.
>
> At another station i kept hearing that the very new Marti synthesized
> RPU kept overheating. and shutting down. Much later when I got access to
> the remote van I couldn't believe my eyes, the two stacked yagis on the
> mast were installed opposing each other, both killing the signal and
> causing high reflected power and the overheating. It seems that the
> station owner's son had hit something with the mast and yagis and pieced
> it back together himself, or something like that.
>
>
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