{"id":604,"date":"2008-10-07T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swaziland2008.mcguireclan.org\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:21:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:21:52","slug":"second-day-at-transmitter-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Second Day at Transmitter Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work progressed well on the transmitter today.\u00a0 Klaus finished virtually all the wiring.\u00a0 Hans installed the tube, blocking capacitor, plate choke and B+ filtering components.\u00a0 I spent a large portion of my day advising others in doing wiring and building the transmission line which has a rather complicated bend.\u00a0 I also installed the balun capacitors (with some help lifting the assembly into position) and HV cable.\u00a0 We are looking for the instructions for making the stress cone to finish the HV cable connection.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to check the wiring on the SSM modules to see that the bellville washers were installed properly.\u00a0 Its a good thing\u00a0because, although\u00a0the washers were OK,\u00a0the connections we not as tight as they should have been.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the shims under the bottom trim pieces will be done tomorrow as there was too much activity around the transmitter to get it done today.\u00a0 Also, all 192 connections to the SSM modules will need to be tightened tomorrow &#8212; a big task.\u00a0 Also hope to start installing the modulator doors, when the transmission line is completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work progressed well on the transmitter today.\u00a0 Klaus finished virtually all the wiring.\u00a0 Hans installed the tube, blocking capacitor, plate choke and B+ filtering components.\u00a0 I spent a large portion of my day advising others in doing wiring and building the transmission line which has a rather complicated bend.\u00a0 I also installed the balun capacitors [&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":[3],"tags":[9,12],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swaziland-2008","tag-9","tag-swaziland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}