{"id":1780,"date":"2014-10-26T14:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2014-10-27T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T17:45:10","slug":"17-october-2014-friday-first-day-at-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"17 October 2014 \u2013- Friday — First Day at Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was another cool morning with a low temperature of 59F.<\/p>\n

Klaus and his family arrived back in Swaziland yesterday evening from two months of support raising in Germany.\u00a0 They are taking the day to get their home organized after being away.<\/p>\n

With most of the other technical staff from Singing Pines off on vacation, Tobi was the only one left to take us to the transmitting site.\u00a0 He had a Field Council meeting first thing in town, so Mark and I had to wait for that to finish to caught our ride with Tobi.<\/p>\n

We arrived at the site in time for lunch.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised to see Samuel Masilela still working with the outside workers.\u00a0 Samuel is the only person left with TWR Swaziland that has been serving here for more than 40 years.\u00a0 We had expected him to retire over a year ago.<\/p>\n

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This is a photo from 1974 is of the Swazi workers that helped with construction of the transmitter site buildings and antennas. The young man closest to the camera, wearing the orange shirt, is Samuel Masilela who is still working at the TWR Swaziland site in October 2014.\u00a0 The foreman, Titus Thele (standing) led Samuel to faith in Christ in those early days.<\/p><\/div>\n

The afternoon was spent catching up on the status of things at the transmitter site since we left from our last trip in July 2013.<\/p>\n

About an hour before departure at the end of the day, the first transmitter coming on the air for evening broadcasts was tripping off with arcs being sensed by an optical arc detector.\u00a0 Eventually, the problem was visually isolated to an arcing VHF capacitor.\u00a0 This was replaced with one that I had just brought in my baggage from Elkhart.\u00a0 The problem was rectifieded and we left for the weekend.<\/p>\n

We were scheduled to have supper with Tobi and his family at 6 pm, but with the transmitter issues this had to be delayed until Tobi could get us back.\u00a0 The main course, German noodles with chicken and gravy, was very good.\u00a0 We had a good evening with Tobi, Britta and their two young boys.<\/p>\n

The high temperature today was 72 F.\u00a0 We hadn’t expect it to be so cool in Swaziland in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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