While I was on the road (again) I took the opportunity to take care of a few other issues as well.  This time I’m dealing with a failure of our digital signal in Buffalo.

UW88 was in the shop for service so I took my trusty little Jeep Cherokee on this trip.  Not nearly as “beefy” as my usual chariot but definitely nimble…It will easily get me up to any of my sites without even breaking a sweat.  It doesn’t have quite the ground clearance and wouldn’t fare quite as well in snow but for this trip it will work just fine.

Weather was interesting…I could see clouds literally coming in over the mountains.

My faithful canine companion Callie accompanied me on this trip.

Working on the equipment in the shack…

Our digital signal is essentially generated by a computer at each transmitter site.
Unfortunately the computer components are prone to the same failures most other computers are…
This particular unit was continuously rebooting and would not run.

Here’s the issue…Notice the black marks on top of the capacitors (small cylinders with silver tops).  They have failed and are bulging.  Fortunately we have new motherboards on hand.  I brought another entire unit to the site.  This one will be brought back to the shop and rebuilt.

Reloading the software on the replacement unit…

Daddy, is it time to go yet?