[BC] RE: TX shacks....horror stories

[Wade Giddens]

Don't tell the electronics students who have only experienced their clean, 
air-conditioned, well-equipped electronics lab!

I started in radio at a station that had a transmitter room in the studio 
building.  The transmitter room there is carpeted, air conditioned, 
well-lighted, convenient, etc.  Every station that I had seen in person had 
the transmitter in the studio building.  One was not air conditioned, 
however.  It never dawned on me that transmitters could be in such messy 
environments.


Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:55:05 -0600
From: "Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE" <kkidd at kkbc.com>
Subject: Re: [BC] TX shacks......horror stories
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In another life far far away I serviced a UHF Micor
community repeater in an outdoor cabinet side mounted on a
tower in a cattle feed lot.  In the winter I would stop at
another customer and pick up a couple of sturdy shipping
pallets to stand on.  Had to get a tow out of the mud/cow
poop more than once.

I have been gone from the MSS for 12 years and still have a
hard time looking a 2way radio in the eye.


At 09:34 AM 2/14/2007, Gary Glaenzer wrote
What's the worst you've ever seen  ?

I had one near here that was an old U-Haul truck body s
you haven't lived till you tried to service a 330-watt
Micor repeater in one
with no floor that sits in a low spot near a hog lot




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