[BC] Maintaining older transmitters

[Milton Holladay]

I've seen xmtr sites with no working lights, a station with dirt floors, 
8000V on 600V THHN wire, dead frogs and snakes in  
xmtrs...........................you can't tell me a thing...........
M

On 2/1/2012 14:20: VIRUS ALERT!, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
> Quoting Gary Glaenzer<glaenzer at frontier.com>:
>
>> that makes a major difference from attempting repairs in a cold concrete
>> block building with no heat in the middle of a corn field in central IL
>> (with apologies to Oklahoma, the wind also comes sweeping 'cross the plain
>> here too) at 3 in the morning with outside temp at -10 and wind from the NW
>> @ 35, after a 70 mile drive across drifting roads
> And a transmitter room so small that you can't put a chair behind the
> transmitter and florecscent lights that blink because they won't fire...
> No heater or restroom facilities, no phone, spotty cell reception, and
> the tool you need is in the other truck....... the list goes on.
>
> Don R
>

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Milton R. Holladay Jr. / miltron at att.net
Columbia, S. C. / 803-331-8059
RF Measurements / Planning&  Installation / Emergency Service&  Parts