Thursday 11 August 2022 – Virginia and Britta To Town

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Tobi’s wife, Britta, invited Virginia to go shopping and sight see this morning while her children were at school. They first went to ShopRite, the first mall in Manzini built in the early 1990s.

An interesting ‘cash register’ at one of the shops in the mall
While Dr David Hynd was overseeing the building of the mission hospital in 1924, his wife was overseeing the building of the original stone church.
Dr David Hynd’s granddaughter, Elizabeth, recently restored the deteriorating unused building into a museum.
Virginia and Britta had tea at the museum.
Britta shopping in the produce department at SuperSpar, the newest supermarket in Manzini

I spent my day at the transmitter site gathering information to send to Mike Sabin to assist in their plans to build a high-power AM (medium wave) transmission line for TWR Sri Lanka. I added dimensions to the 1982 drawing and forwarded that information. Attempts at making a CAD drawing of that drawing seem to be going at a snail’s pace because of the steep learning curve getting to know how to use LibreCAD. [AutoCAD was available for my use at SonSet Solutions for many years, but their more recent high licensing costs did not justify maintaining a multi-user license. For a few years, DraftSight offered a simple 2D version for free use that functioned like AutoCAD, but they dropped that option about a year ago.]

End bracket for transmission line with fiberglass tension insulator and clamps
Mid-span spacer for inner conductors of the unbalanced line
There are 26 poles spaced 25 meters from the first tower to the transmitter building
While I was at the tower, I took a look at the 100,000-watt networks we installed while here in 2016.

A crew came from a company in town to replace the four big air-conditioning units in the transmitter hall. They got two installed and worked til almost 5pm, so we were a little later getting home this evening.