[BC] Maintaining old transmitters

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>From: Clay Freinwald <k7cr at blarg.net>
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>There are a few makers out there that still understand And to the extent possible, have support and parts for their older equipment.

I don't disagree, however there are more, and I will get back to that.

Nautel still supports everything.  A friend had a transmitter in the  
basement of a building.  The building was used as the studio of  
another station -- it used to be a co-located studio/transmitter site.

The studio burned.  There was never fire in the basement, but it was  
full of water, and smoke got to the AMFET 5.

We brought in generators, lights and pumps.  We pumped out the  
basement, and then the station staff got to the transmitter.  Within  
days, with the help of Nautel, the transmitter was back on the air in  
a condemed building, with some sort of  a waver from building and  
zoning and the Fire Marshall.  I wasn't involved much past volunteer  
work getting the lights on and the basement dry.  Like a few other  
disasters, you just pitch in and wait for karma to come and pay you  
back.  This did happen to me when I had an antenna fire on December  
23.  All kinds of people came to help me out, and I still have fond  
regards for them.

--chip