Make the 1360 for KHAK….
-----Original Message-----
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Gruis, EdD, KØHTF
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 07:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: LF: RE: Gardener
required...
Hell, all.
I used to a lot or broadcast work and it was sometimes quite an issue regarding
the plants surrounding the towers. One station was the olde KCBC in Des Moines,
IA on 1390 Kc., as it was in those days. It was a 1 kw 4 tower array and being
in Iowa it was surrounded on 3 or 4 sides with a cornfield. Enough said.
Another station was KHAK, 1350, 1 kw, 4 tower daytimes in Cedar Rapids, about
130 miles east and a bit north. You could look at the phase monitor and see it
moving a few degrees and the current varying. It started suddenly and I found
the trouble within a day: a field mouse nest in the de-coupling coil in the
lighting system for the NW tower.
Way back when a station in, I think I was told, the town of Watertown, South
Dakota installed a new station on the tallest point of a building. As the
engineer tuned the tower each nigh during testing all was excellent. On the
morning of sign on, with many dignitaries present the station was hard to keep
on the air – antenna problems. The reason: during business hours the
elevator shat house was where the antenna was installed and there was the
piston tuning and folk had the nerve to use the ‘vator.
73,
Doc.
-----Original Message-----
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Moritz
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 05:01
To: [email protected]
Subject: LF: Gardener required...
I suspected I was getting
behind with the weeding (see attachment) - that explains the erratic antenna
current!
BTW - strong QRSS "Test"
signal from G3XIZ on 137.686 this morning
