Tech Notes from the Field

It is just crazy lately. I received a nice call today in regards to my comments on the Harris Flexstar. Thanks for that. I’m also busy with Nautel working out some little bugs with the NV20’s. These were to be expected as they are new products and will exhibit some strangeness. And that AM tower build, that is almost done though there are some details for the final city approval.

I am expecting my first software upgrade to the NV’s. This is necessary as we are experiencing an interesting little problem that may be commercial power related of which the NV’s are sensitive. Our Z10’s were also sensitive to something, but now it seems more apparent that a little phase brown-out situation may be occurring.
Overall I am quite please with the new transmitters, so these minor little things do not bother me. I feed information to Nautel and they are very receptive of the input. Daysequerra on the other hand….

Whomever decided that a shunt feed for an AM tower of odd-ball height is on drugs. Poor match that was closely matched shows signs of being unstable with some weather we are getting here. High VSWR that is random. A head-scratcher to say the least, but still annoying. It is a similar unstable thing our old tower exhibited in weather. Bad connections of the skirts? Poor design on how the skirts are installed. Rigidity of the skirts or lack thereof. Who knows.

All in all it is interesting, but very busy.

Cheers!