Or just "report" the post and ask them to delete it under "reason".

RGORJANCE wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:27 am

Deep:

You work too cheap! You need a "standard fee structure" like I have. My standard fee for "stuff" is a cup of coffee, payable next time we meet.

Fossil

Yeah, and you're horrible at collections. I still owe you one from about five years ago.

I presume that we will have to file something to correct the NAD 83 versus 27 problem and correct the HAAT to a real value before we can file FCC 318 to change the height. Or maybe, we can put all the changes in one 318 filing and thus "move" the antenna to where it is now as well as change the hei...

You've got a couple problems here. First, whoever did this application used NAD83 and not 27 data for the coordinates so the antenna is not at the licensed location. Second, according to the USGS topo for that location the elevation is 155 feet (47.2 meters). Looking at that antenna from Google Stre...

kcbooboo wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 10, 2019 5:50 am

they were never tightened at the factory. $#it happens.

Just had another case of this last week. Kintronic Labs 40 amp roller coil...outer nuts and tubing connection tight, but someone forgot to tighten the inner nuts on the slip ring connection when this coil was made:

I have never tangled with anything BE but I did have a similar-sounding problem with a Nautel ND25. A couple of PA modules showing red indicators but all the the regular checks found no problems. Just as an experiment I swapped modules around and found the problem stayed with the slot rather than t...

I had a Nautel ND2.5 pull that trick...
Glad to hear you found it.

I know of at least one station who used this on an emergency antenna STA and had decent luck with it. You don't need a tower, you don't need a "normal" ground system (this uses an 80 radial, 30-foot radius ground plane) and it was designed for continuous duty. http://www.theradiosource.com/products/...

They are absurdly narrowband...about the same or worse than an equivalent height TIS antenna...and I would not expect that power rating to be for continuous duty (and is PEP so divide by 4). You're basically resonating the coil with the two "capacitor plates" at the frequency of interest, and since ...

I find it interesting to read speculation about how "AM is dead", while at the same time, these examples of communities continuing to embrace their local stations aren't all that hard to find. Almost all of those "speculations" are from people who desperately need AM (and radio in general) to fail ...

Once one finds you they all show up like stray cats. Unfortunately it takes some effort to filter them out in advance which I don't see happening here.

If you have any issues call Smarts. They are really good at support, even for these old relics.

Nautel has an option for LAN-based control, but it is from the late 2000s and rather crude by today's standards. It is called "NxLink" and it plugs into that RS-232-looking DB-9. The XR3/6 is still in production but I don't know about the NxLink. I've installed a few transmitters which came with it ...

Description The Assistant Director of Engineering is responsible for managing the installation, maintenance and repair of studio, transmitting and ancillary equipment to maintain competitive signals in the market while complying with all FCC technical requirements for a 40+ station company. Large p...