The first part of today was weekly staff meeting (usually on Wednesday but moved to Friday to accommodate the Cox’s report mentioned in Virginia’s blog entry).   We were greatly encouraged by three listener letter excerpts from the Women of Hope program.  Hope to get copies of these to share at a later time.

After staff meeting, Steve and I went shopping for electrical supplies for a work team that is coming the end of next week.  As usual, the shop was out of stock on some common parts, so another trip will be necessary next week We finally arrived at the transmitting site about 1:00pm.

Chuck Saunders continued doing ductwork for the intake and exhaust air for cooling the transmitter.  He plans to work tomorrow to finish it up.  For some reason he wants to get back to his wife in Johannesburg.

Today we did some of the few things that could be done while the duct work was progressing.  I connected the remaining water lines now that the transmission line is completed.  I also had to reroute a wire that got ‘trapped’ on the wrong side of the VHF filter — what appeared to be an easy task ended up taking about an hour!  Steve connected all the fiber optics to the SSM modules and then we checked out the PA bias regulator to make sure that it survived shipping in place.  We still have to check out the harmonic damper, but that will have to wait until the ducting is done so that we can get the back PA door open.  We also filled the transmitter water system in preparation for testing, which we hope will begin on Monday.