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Today's silly troubleshooting adventure: Notice all meter values displayed for the power amplifier (up on the mast) of the microwave transmitter on one of our live trucks are just stone cold at 00.00.
Decide to pull the mast down and look because the hardware up there kinda made no sense (at first I thought somehow it had a RF Central radio and a Nucomm ODU, which just plain wouldn't work together).

Noticed the DC connector into the RF Central amplifier unit is smashed.

#WellTheresYourProblem

Jul 1, 2024 at 5:44pmWeb
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I should have taken a picture but it was offensively hot out and I didn't want to keep roasting.... The connector looked like it got nailed by a tree. The vehicle's mast still sticks up a good five feet or so when fully retracted, so if you go into overhanging trees, the greebles up there take a beating