You could be running way too much power if
Here's a true story............in my days working for Motorola, some of the upgrades in the dispatch centers take time, and there is "overlap" where old equipment gets left until it can be removed, etc, as new stuff gets online.
Up in Newport, WA (Pend Oreille County) I got in "late to the party" to such goins' on's. We had severall little interesting "times" up there
At any rate at one point I was up on a ladder, up in the drop ceiling, pulling out some unused controls, low voltage, and telco cables from the old system, when I encountered a piece of coax that didn't want to "move smoothly." It started to pull out with some of the other cables and when "it came" "there it was"
Some worker, sheet metal, plumber, ?? who knows, had CUT the coax somehow, probably with an errant saw, and had doubled the coax back on itself and SPLICED IT BACK TOGETHER with WIRE NUTS
This was on a 450mhz (UHF) radio so the fact that it "evidently" still worked was nothing less than a small miracle. Some radios, by the way can fail the PA with such things as high feedline SWR
That was not the only issues at Newport!!!! The building had been remodeled, probably more than once, and contained the dispatch center, the Sheriff's offices, and the JAIL. There was a phone room which ended up INSIDE the general part of the jail.
The doors had electric locks, and there was an intercom. There was a telco guy, and two of us from Motorola doing some work. There was someone else doing tests on the emergency generator.
The backup power is supposed to be prioritized.....The stuff that HAS to work for 911 is on a UPS, and it's backed up by a generator. So they were "testing" all this.
Turns out the jail locks and intercoms WERE NOT on the backup generator. So there we were, in the telco terminal room, BLACKED OUT. The only thing either of us had for a light was my "Mini mag" thank "gosh." So we pawed around with a butt set until we got an outside trunk, then called BACK INTO the SO to have them send a human jailer in with a good old KEY.
The side note? The coffee pot and the light over the pool table in the lounge WERE ON THE GENERATOR!!!!!
Here's a true story............in my days working for Motorola, some of the upgrades in the dispatch centers take time, and there is "overlap" where old equipment gets left until it can be removed, etc, as new stuff gets online.
Up in Newport, WA (Pend Oreille County) I got in "late to the party" to such goins' on's. We had severall little interesting "times" up there
At any rate at one point I was up on a ladder, up in the drop ceiling, pulling out some unused controls, low voltage, and telco cables from the old system, when I encountered a piece of coax that didn't want to "move smoothly." It started to pull out with some of the other cables and when "it came" "there it was"
Some worker, sheet metal, plumber, ?? who knows, had CUT the coax somehow, probably with an errant saw, and had doubled the coax back on itself and SPLICED IT BACK TOGETHER with WIRE NUTS
This was on a 450mhz (UHF) radio so the fact that it "evidently" still worked was nothing less than a small miracle. Some radios, by the way can fail the PA with such things as high feedline SWR
That was not the only issues at Newport!!!! The building had been remodeled, probably more than once, and contained the dispatch center, the Sheriff's offices, and the JAIL. There was a phone room which ended up INSIDE the general part of the jail.
The doors had electric locks, and there was an intercom. There was a telco guy, and two of us from Motorola doing some work. There was someone else doing tests on the emergency generator.
The backup power is supposed to be prioritized.....The stuff that HAS to work for 911 is on a UPS, and it's backed up by a generator. So they were "testing" all this.
Turns out the jail locks and intercoms WERE NOT on the backup generator. So there we were, in the telco terminal room, BLACKED OUT. The only thing either of us had for a light was my "Mini mag" thank "gosh." So we pawed around with a butt set until we got an outside trunk, then called BACK INTO the SO to have them send a human jailer in with a good old KEY.
The side note? The coffee pot and the light over the pool table in the lounge WERE ON THE GENERATOR!!!!!