{"id":2704,"date":"2012-10-12T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T16:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2012-10-12T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:17:37","slug":"gore-mountain-transmitter-back-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/10\/12\/gore-mountain-transmitter-back-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore Mountain transmitter is back on the air!"},"content":{"rendered":"

WXLG 89.9 (on Gore Mountain) is an important link in the NCPR broadcast chain.\u00a0 In addition to providing coverage to a large section of Warren County, it also “feeds” its signal to translators in Glens Falls, Lake George, Wells and Speculator.\u00a0 So went the transmitter died on Wednesday, we lost our signal over a pretty wide area.<\/p>\n

I’d finally bought some new tires for my truck, so on Thursday I headed up the “road” to the summit of Gore Mtn.\u00a0 There was some snow…<\/p>\n

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Gore Mountain “road” near summit<\/p><\/div>\n

After some troubleshooting, I discovered a bad solder joint in the power output stage of our transmitter.\u00a0 This may have been caused by localized heating, poor workmanship, or possibly age (the transmitter’s… not mine!)<\/p>\n

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our lovely WXLG transmitter<\/p><\/div>\n

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Just a little cleanup and some solder (and solder braid to make the connection more robust) and we were back on the air!<\/p>\n

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before and after views of bad solder joint<\/p><\/div>\n

The snow had melted for the trip back down…<\/p>\n

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looking Northeast from the summit of Gore Mtn.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WXLG 89.9 (on Gore Mountain) is an important link in the NCPR broadcast chain.\u00a0 In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}