Since the container was not available this morning, the packing of spare parts continued in earnest.

Virginia, George and Jason packing and listing spare parts that are going with the transmitters.

Over fifty large boxes of parts were brought down the stairs from the stockroom today.  Some of these boxes were then packed into open spaces in the transmitters.  Again, a list was made of the number of each box going into each transmitter to facilitate locating these parts when they are needed later.

Jason and Grant carefully pack each tube after it is removed from the transmitter. They are extremely fragile and cost about $20,000 each new.  The two newest transmitters (Thompson 250,000-watt shortwave) are in the background.

The first container finally arrived about 11am, but the shipping company did not follow instructions to have it on a special trailer that could lower the container onto the ground.  We do not have the equipment available to hoist 3-ton transformers and 3-ton transmitter cabinets five feet into the air safely, then push them into the container.

After a couple of hours trying to sort the problem out over the phone, the trailer with container was left and the driver was to come back with the properly equipped truck to do the job.

Since things had slowed down because of the container delay, I decided to the extra time to raise Transmitter 1 (TX1) onto blocks so that it would be all ready to go onto the ‘skates’ after the rollers were no longer needed for TX2.

The truck driver had not returned by the end of the day.  When the shipping company was called, we were informed that the driver would be on site tomorrow again at the same time as today!