We now return you to the mundane

After all of the excitement of the antennas last week and first of this week, the ho hum, everyday life to complete the project has returned. Items become completed, but when a door is painted or a safety climbing device is installed, both are very important in their own rights, it doesn't have the same pomp and circumstance as a tower top out or antenna raising or transmitter installation. But both are just as important as the bigger items to the success of the project.

Most people assume that when the antenna is placed, the project is finished. Far from it. You have to have a way to get the RF energy from the transmitter in the building to the antenna on top of the tower. Anyone who has had a CB radio or an Amateur radio understands something of the wire between the radio and the antenna called "coax." It is a special wire that is made just for efficiently transferring the RF energy from the transmitter to the antenna. We use the same thing except it is MUCH bigger to handle the power. It can be a slow process putting all of those lengths of transmission line together but it has to be done.

Transmission Line Installation


But then work has to continue in the building as well. Electric will be the order of the day from now until the end of the project. Broadcast transmitters use so much electricity, that it takes a long time to get it all hooked up and running.

"Small" Electrical Panels

Of course there will be painting and flooring and plumbing, but they will be a few days here and a few days there and electric is EVERY day.

For the next little while, the mundane electrical and transmission line will take center stage, while the next big event, transmitter arrival is still a few weeks way.

Wake me when we get done.