{"id":3318,"date":"2022-08-23T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:51:00","slug":"monday-22-august-2022-solo-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=3318","title":{"rendered":"Monday 22 August 2022 \u2013 Solo Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-76.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-76-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-76-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-76-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-76-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-76.png 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<br><br>The internet connection at the site was very fast and I was able to download the photos that were not downloading yesterday at home.<br><br>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.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eswatini-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}