Tobi is gone for the week with his family for school break at the beach north of Durban, South Africa. This morning I made the drive to the site by myself. Stopped and took a photo of warthogs while passing through Dombeya Game Reserve.

One of the big vacuum variable capacitors failed in HC100 Serial 3, the older of the three 100,000-watt shortwave transmitters. It was installed in 1992. Salema and Sicelo had done a good job of isolating the problem. I confirmed their diagnosis and let them remove the old PA Plate tuning capacitor and install a new one, just showing them the proper procedure to ensure the new variable capacitor was set to the same capacitance as the old one. The transmitter came right up. I then showed Salema how to calibrate the servo that turns the capacitor, so the transmitter will tune up even more quickly.

The internet connection at the site was very fast and I was able to download the photos that were not downloading yesterday at home.

Good news! The internet connection at home is faster again, so we were able to do some downloading of photos again and post a couple of blog entries.