Have multiple sized hammers all the way up to the "GBFH".

"Have hammers, will travel........ for Kringle"!

Fossil
(Hope the pair of 16's arrived safely)

Well, there are many other skills" we as engineers have. For instance.......... snake wrangler rodent remover - dead and alive alligator whisperer tarantula tackler And I'm sure there are lots more. Really liked the deer and cow stories...got quite a chuckle. Fossil Oh, yes, I experienced #1 and #2 ...

I ran into this for the firs.t time many years ago when doing FIM's. In my particular instance, I was still a bit of a rookie. I had just taken a reading and closed the FIM, got back in the car to record the number.....and forgot what Isaw. Got back out and saw that it had changed (needle position)....

Yup, that's what we got on our monitor, which is also DOA. I think there are a couple identical monitors in our old but working stock pile. The xmttr was picked up used (FM-5B/S), very clean, and minus exciter, but including a lot of spares....MVDS boards too. Frequency change and retune after putti...

Thanks for the information., Lee. I think it will definitely be a "back burner project".

I usually wear a "head cushion" to reduce the deep dings. But they still can be painful. I got to the point where I get the young guys to do the "low down dirty stuff".

Fossil

Just a quick question-----anyone had experience with this xmttr monitoring/control system??? Good-so, so-bad??

Fossil

Here is another thing to consider. If you use a big exhaust fan to suck air out of the room, you create a negative pressure in the room which reduces the air density moving across the innards of the equipment. As your incoming air filters clog, you further reduce the room air density. Use a forced a...

Sounds like"soup to nuts" to me.

For you young guys-----that's from the "dark ages", before TV.

Fossi

Nearing 80 years old, still doing contract engineering. What others have posted, i agree with. For the present, keep the day job and those great benefits......try doing the bcst stuff on weekends. The downside of this life is the "on call 24/7/365" stuff that can make life miserable at times....espe...

Old age strikes again.......forgot to mention, you need a real clear path. If there are any trees in the way, you're gonna need to do your Paul Bunyon imitation.

Fossil

Hey Chuck: I just remembered something..... there is some gig-a-herz like STL, UNLICENSED, that you could set up? As I recall, the range is pretty decent, and I don't think the cost is real heavy. According to my contact, (who I just spoke to) , there is the unlicensed version for 2.4/5ghz available...

I seem to remember that a radio station in Tulsa had either the sign-off sponsored by Cain's Coffee, or maybe the silence afterwards. Always got a chuckle out of it. This was in the dark ages of the 50's.

Fossil

Going out on a limb here.....but been there before. IIRC, back in the day, the 450mhz could be used as a TSL - transmiter - studio link to return metering info, etc. back to the studio, as well as an RPU. I can't remember if it could be used/licensed as an STL for permanent situations. Deep Thought ...

TV? We used to refer to those TV sales guys as "purveyors of "mirrors and voodoo". Radio used "real - hot air".

Yeah, I recall that VP cooling was used in the UHF TV rigs. I don't recall ever saw one in operation.......maybe in the final test area however.

Fossil

"Water vapor cooling" is a super simple system and very elegant. Harris built several xmttrs using this technique calling it "VAPOR PHASE COOLING". Only problem was that due to the dislike of water cooling, the US engineers instantly disliked it. This thinking was based on bad experiences in the pas...