The low this morning was 59F — almost cool enough to want a jacket, but I didn’t bring one with me.  After all, it is almost summer in Africa!

Today I needed to send the final copy of our McGuiReport, which we completed over the weekend, for proofreading.  Before doing so, I wanted to take a ‘recreation’ photo of Mark to include.  It has become popular these days to recreate photos taken years ago with the same persons today.  Here are the results of our efforts.

Mark at 2 years in Swaziland

Mark (almost 16) back in Swaziland

The tower in the original photo had been taken down, so we had to use another tower with a suitable tree in the background.

We checked out a base insulator of one of the two medium wave (AM) towers that showed signs of leaking oil after 30 plus years.  I did some research to locate the manufacturer, then emailed them to seek counsel about what, if anything, could, or needed, to be done be remedy the problem.

The base insulator at the bottom of one of the AM towers

Signs of oil leak from the left insulator

Answered and discussed some questions that Graham had about the HC100.  He had done some excellent reports on a couple of issues and I requested that he email them to me for forwarding to the other sites with HC100s.

We hipotted (tested with very high voltage — 20,000 volts) the VHF capacitor removed on Friday and it appeared to test good, as did the other one they had in stock.  This seems to indicate that the problem was actually a faulty arc detector on TX2, rather than the capacitor!  This leaves us a little confused because Tobi had physically seen the flash of light of an arc from the one that had been removed!

The high temperature in Manzini this afternoon was 75F.