Even the TWR Bonaire office staff meet at the transmitter site this morning for devotions.  Everyone was encouraged to see  the progress that has been made on the 400,000-watt AM transmitter installation.

About 9 am, WEB, the power company arrived to shut off the 220 transformer at the old power building, so we could begin the process of transferring the 220-volt 3-phase 200-amp cable connection to the new power room.

150 feet of cable was removed from this trench after disconnecting it from the transformer in the small white building

With about eight men assisting, the cable was fed along the elevated outside cable tray with an immediate right into the inside cable tray, then about 50 feet to the inside circuit breaker box.

Jonas guides the end of the cable through the wall into the room with the circuit breaker. Larry is on the other side of the wall feeding it through.

Benny and Dave guide the cable down to its breaker panel, which has been opened.

Larry, Marco and Daryl deciding on the best way to feed the other end of the cable into the new power room.

Larry guides the end of the cable through the hole into the new power room.

Dave, Jonas, and Larry guide the end of the cable into the 800-amp distribution panel, its new source of power. Notice the appropriate message on the back of Jonas’ red shirt–also the sweat!

Jonas and Daryl make the last connection into the breaker box. In less than four hours power was restored. This feed provides 110/127/220 volt power and air conditioning to all of the building with the exception of the new transmitter hall.

We were so relieved to see the completion of this long anticipated cable move.  It required a lot of physical labor in rather hot conditions.  There was only one minor mishap when Benny cut two fingers (no stitches required) when his hand rubbed against a sharp edge of an air conditioner when feeding the cable around a tight corner.

In the afternoon, I assisted Tom and Josh King with tidying up the four antenna tuning huts.

Tom and Joshua inspecting one of the tuning huts.

Got home late this evening due to a last-minute arcing problem in one of the antenna tuning huts.  The problem was a connector that attached the final matching network to the copper pipe attached to the tower.  Unfortunately, there was no spare of this connector, so it took extensive cleanup time to restore this connector to service.  Glad this was found before the power is increased by four times!!

Since we slept too warm on Saturday night at 27C (80F) and too cool at 26C (78F) on Sunday, I figured out how to change the options on the air conditioner to degrees Fahrenheit and set it between at 79F!