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Hmmm... I wonder what those piles of dirt mean? |
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Look closely at this image. See anything odd? The cables come down
from the hot tower on the left, thru coax clamps (grounded), and then on
to the Isocouplers. |
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Look closely again... Does the Austin Ring transformer look a little unusual? |
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One of the grounded cable clamps BEFORE reaching the isocoupler. |
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We backfilled the open trenches and prepared the area for our work. |
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Hmmm. I thought that we backfilled and graded that yesterday... Oh.
They forgot to run conduits to the ATU and tower lights... |
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This generator pad was buried under a dirt pile. |
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The site soil was sandy silt and was very easily eroded. |
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The plowing is mostly done. |
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The trenches have finally been backfilled, the radials finished and
completely covered. Another contractor was scheduled to install weed
block fabric in a week or so. |
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The large base insulator with arc gap. The rods visible running up
the sides of the insulator are support rods that will eventually be
removed. They provide support during construction to protect against
uneven loading of the ceramic. |
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A strap was installed into the new transmitter building. The cable
entry bulkhead was grounded to it as well as the transmitter rack and
other equipment. |
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The strap junction behind the transmitter rack. |
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The radials finished and completely covered |
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Wonder where that large chunk of concrete came from? The tower crew
mistakenly poured the base pier about 30ft from it's intended location.
They used some sort of machine to break it into pieces and hid them
just below the soil surface. I broke the plow on this... |
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