Had this problem on a different Optimod AM product but 6 months to a year between incidents. And there were quite a few years before this started - perhaps pointing to caps. It hadn’t happened often enough to be able to ‘shoot it before I left the building. Power reset took care of it. I don’t remem...

Of course the DBX has a mono 1/4 inch output... At the risk of oversimplifying: there’s your trouble! From your description, I’m guessing the cable you are using to go from the dBx to the XLR adapter is either mono straight-thru or stereo straight-thru but since the output JACK on the dBx is mono, ...

Never noticed this before. Usually not much DXing up here but this evening (during the 1st Q!) on my car radio in the driveway, there was a station coming in quite strong on EVERY frequency. To include 1600 & 1610, technically not Xband. Didn’t stick around for IDs due to the fact I was delivering d...

My previous stations have a broom on a telescopic pole that gets all the way to the top of a 3.7M dish with the bottom of the dish about 3-1/2 feet off the ground. To get the stubborn stuff they have a thing called a Snow-Brum which is a sort of soft plastic snow rake with rather sharp seams around ...

Roger that. Thank you for the info from the manual.

I would strongly suggest finding a way to do the internal measurement under power without cheating interlocks. There’s often a way of sneaking a couple of test leads out of the cabinet without bypassing interlocks. Different situation but I once had to measure some voltage in a Continental 315F 10kw...

Perfectly clear on this iphone.

You know, the sync. Where you wash the dishes!

A question: does the spur appear when operating into the dummy load, or only when working into the antenna? What happens when you add your ‘SWR inserter’ with the line feeding the antenna? Forgive me if you’ve already addressed these ideas - the thread’s getting too long for me to remember everything!

I don’t know about you, but I feel a whole lot better now.

All part of the job I suppose

Hey, fixing toilets and plumbing is traditionally part of the job description, right?

Yeah I’m sure Simian is way different today than WaveStation was then. Does anyone see any problem doing that? No. I think that’s exactly what you need. In that previous WaveStation installation of mine, the studios were moved while I was on what turned out to be a sabbatical. Someone else set it up...

Simian may or may not be different from WaveStation in this regard — and I have no experience with Simian yet — but I found WS would play files from a network drive if UNC paths to the folders were used rather than mapped drives. I had one station with a lot of long-form (block) programs with all fi...

By my high-level mathematics I think that makes you even older!

I actually started being on-call in 1977 but had a long break from that from ‘79 to ‘93. Wasn’t smart enough to avoid getting sucked back in, I guess. We’ll see how long it lasts this time.

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Thu Nov 22, 2018 9:05 am

I am spending Thanksgiving on-call for my 35th straight year...

You old!