Greetings from Kabul, In case anyone thinks the life of a broadcast engineer is easy, have a look at this short video in the forwarded message below. This is from the Society of Broadcast Engineers listserver. The gentleman is racking in the high power circuit breaker on a Harris DX transmitter series. We dont know the result of what happened to him, but I assure you it cant be good. It killed the monitor camera as well.
Hopefully everyone will forgive me for straying a little from loggings. 73s de Al Muick ----------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Wojciechowski Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SBE] Racking in a circuit breaker The link below is one of the 'holy *' moments no one ever wishes to participate in. At first glance the event appears to be part of the DX series of 200 kW transmitters. Maybe someone else can tell for sure. The CB's handles 1,200 amps (if memory serves). Each 200 kW TX can be combined for higher power ratings, I've seen 600 kW but I know there is at least one 1 MW in the Philippines. The guy is racking in a CB home when *something happened*, wish I knew more.... Be careful out there.... http://radiomagonline.com/Unknown_location_Arc_Flash_while_racking_a_breaker .wmv "Infinity is everywhere and nowhere" ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
