Another one of those 300-mile days. I left home at 0630 this morning running east toward two of my stations. One had asked some questions about reconfiguring their emergency power system, I spent a couple of hours looking at things and talking with the site people.

Task number two was a bit more involved. The other station had purchased a new generator and automatic transfer switch to replace some equipment that was thirty years old. Since ALL the station power passes through that transfer switch, we had to schedule to kill the whole station. We waited unto 3 PM to do this in order to give everybody a chance to do a whole day’s work. At 3, we cut the fuel to the old generator so it wouldn’t start and then we cut the power at the incoming utility pole, killing the whole station.

The next couple of hours were filled with yanking out the old transfer switch and installing the new one, then doing some electrical checks and test runs of the new generator under load and to make sure it would come on automatically in case the local utility company dropped the station.

Those tests were satisfactory, and I left the station at 5:30 PM headed back home.

On another note, that Instalanch from the weekend netted me an all-time high hit count of 1487 for Sunday, doubling the previous high caused by the appearance of a link to “The Name Game” on a board frequented by new mommies. While I do get a grin out of seeing that sort of visitor numbers, I’m quite content with the regular visitors who drop by often and comment.  It’s also fun to look a the Sitemeter stats and see visitors from all over the globe.  Some locations show up often enough to tell me that I have friends all over the world.  That’s  pretty cool, you know.

Anyway, I’m tired…  see you folks later…