I rode to work with Joel and Joanna Harp who live in the middle apartment below us.  They are also short-term with TWR Guam and have been married for only 6 months.

This morning, I did additional troubleshooting of circuit board from yesterday and narrowed the problem down to a tiny tantalum capacitor which was slightly discolored.  Replacing it corrected the problem.

Larry removes ICs from the circuit board trying to isolate its fault.

I then began troubleshooting of another faulty board (the same kind) but could not isolate the problem, which is not a capacitor.  An obsolete integrated circuit has been ordered from a surplus electronics dealer in China.  After it arrives, further progress can be made.

In the afternoon, I helped Jim, Joel and Paul with installing new rollers and rail for the huge sliding doors on the shop end of the transmitter building.  These doors are about 16 feet tall by 14 feet wide. Only one of two sliding doors was completed today.

Since it was necessary to get the door done before leaving (to lock up the building) we left about 30 minutes later than normal.  Joanna had taken their car home earlier, so I caught a ride with Paul.

Virginia and I were supposed to meet for dinner at 6 pm with Daryl and Gaynelle at Ruby Tuesday at the north end of the island.  Since we left the site about 5pm, I was afraid that we would be late.  I quickly changed at home and we rode with Joel and Joanna, since they were also invited and have the more fuel efficient vehicle — a Toyota Echo like the one we have in Elkhart. We made it to dinner 5 minutes before 6:00!  Phil and April also met us there.  We had a great time of talking with Daryl and Gaynelle on a more personal level.

I think this will be our last fancy dinner out for a while.  Dining out typically costs 50 to 100% more for the same menu items than in Elkhart.  We did find out that a MacDonalds near us has about three items on their $1 menu.  Hope to say more about this in a future post, as this MacDonalds is quite unique.