Today Chuck Sauders arrived from Johannesburg to install the ducting for the heat exchanger.\u00a0 This involves knocking a hole through the wall behind the transmitter and installing a louvre.\u00a0 As a result of the covering of the transmitter to keep out dust and the work on the transmission line, work on the transmitter is quite restricted.\u00a0 The rest of the connections to the SSM modules have been tightened.\u00a0 Also the tiny 6-32 screws for the trim around the control panel were finally found, so was able to install those pieces of trim.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The engineering staff here is wanting to use air conditioned and filtered air\u00a0for the inside of the transmitter cabinets.\u00a0 To do this they want to\u00a0use outside air only for cooling the ‘radiators’.\u00a0 They want to recirculate all the other air.\u00a0 This is relatively straight forward except\u00a0for the air that passes over the SSM modules.\u00a0 They are hoping to accomplish this by rotating the associated blower 90 degrees so that the air is exhausted into the room.\u00a0 This will require\u00a0some\u00a0additional baffling in the intake plenum.\u00a0 It will also require\u00a0doubling the \u00a0air flow of the second heat exchanger blower and changing the baffling into the heat exchangers.\u00a0 Part of this morning I spent researching blower and motor combinations that might work for this application.<\/p>\n
Something special happened today.\u00a0 We were able to visit two of the farmers neighboring the TWR site that I had known for many years.\u00a0 Steve and I were invited to lunch with Harry Lourens.\u00a0 His wife Molly\u00a0managed to get off from her job with Dr. Hynd to be there, too.\u00a0 Harry manages a farm for the Howe family.\u00a0 In addition to cattle, they raise potatoes and they were in the process of ‘lifting’ them while we visited.\u00a0 Tons of potatoes are bagged each day during harvest.\u00a0 They are high quality and many are purchased by Simba chips in South Africa.\u00a0 Another enterprise that they have undertaken is production of charcoal.\u00a0 Harry took us on a tour of their latest project of raising chickens.\u00a0 They have five large building with 20,000 chickens in each building.\u00a0 They start with day old chicks and they are ready for processing in 36 days.\u00a0 No hormones are used but growth is faster because lighting is used for 22 hours per day to encourage eating.\u00a0 They are meticulous in disinfecting the buildings before starting more chicks and we disinfected the boots we were required to use anytime we entered or left a building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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