{"id":468,"date":"2016-06-13T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T21:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/?p=468"},"modified":"2016-12-22T21:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T04:31:35","slug":"squaw-mountain-repair-2016-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/2016\/06\/13\/squaw-mountain-repair-2016-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Squaw Mountain repair 2016-June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week (first week of June, 2016), the Squaw Mountain site was left without power following a lightning storm. This took both RMRL repeaters (<span class=\"txtSlash\">146.940<\/span> and <span class=\"txtSlash\">449.450<\/span>) off the air, including for the June 6th weekly net. The backup generator failed to start automatically. When commercial power returned two days later, the replacement power company transformer put out 160 VAC instead of the normal 120 VAC and damaged several pieces of equipment at the site. Fortunately, RMRL&#8217;s well-designed system prevented the increase in power from taking out any critical or expensive components. <\/p>\n<p>Glenn (<span class=\"txtSlash\">WN0EHE<\/span>) and Dunnigan (<span class=\"txtSlash\">K1DUN<\/span>) made a trip to the site on Sunday, June 12th. It was discovered that a single MOV in the power line filter had blown, thereby interrupting the AC current overload and protecting the rest of the system.  We replaced some transient protectors and were back on the air.  The <span class=\"txtSlash\">146.940<\/span> and <span class=\"txtSlash\">449.450<\/span> machines are, once again, fully operational.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 308px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/images\/2016-06asquaw.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"397\" alt=\"Squaw Mountain repeater hit by lightning June 2016\" class \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Glenn (WN\u00d8EHE) troubleshooting the system on June 12th (2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 252px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/images\/2016-06bsquaw.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"234\" alt=\"Squaw Mountain lightening strike - replacing a filter\" class \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">This little AC power line filter had to be replaced.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week (first week of June, 2016), the Squaw Mountain site was left without power following a lightning storm. This took both RMRL repeaters (146.940 and 449.450) off the air, including for the June 6th weekly net. The backup generator failed to start automatically. When commercial power returned two days later, the replacement power company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repeaters","category-technical","tag-repeaters","tag-rmrl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrl.org\/rl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}