It was not quite as cold this morning — 53F outside and 61F inside.  The inside temperature is the same as yesterday, but with the outside temperature higher, there is promise that the inside temperature will improve, too.

Today was a short staff meeting.  It was also supposed to be a day off, but it was decided to postpone the Wednesday off until next week.  This is to allow us to prepare for Thursday and Friday’s work.

When we got to the site this morning, we learned that Antenna 6 had arced once during last night’s transmission.  This may be an improvement over the average of two or three times, but not what we wanted.  We will be review this again next week,

Since the transmitters are on the air in the morning until 10am, I try to write up reports during this time.

Thursday and Friday the plans call for dismantling a tower and erecting it in another location.  Most of the day today was spent gathering equipment and reviewing the techniques to accomplish the task.  It has been about 25 years since my last involvement with such a project, but I am pleasantly surprised at how much can be remembered when the need arises.

Many memories came flooding back as we sorted through the rigging equipment.  There were gin poles for four different sizes of towers and I could recall enough about each to convey information about which gin pole was used for which size of tower.   Reviewing the equipment that had been assembled for the coming days’ work, I noticed that the head (top pulley assembly) did not match the gin pole that had been selected and would not have worked.  It took some further searching, but the correct gin pole head was finally found.

This evening we attended the Wednesday service at the church where the Bible study on Revelation continued in chapter 10.