Well another work day is here.  Today we will give them the Receiver test and then start on the overall transceiver performance tests.  I hope it will be a light day as yesterday I did another no no.

On my way home I went grocery shopping and they had a sale on some dog food our dogs like.  I bought a huge bag of it and I am a bit sore this morning after fighting to get it into the grocery cart.  Carlos carried it in from the car and David loaded it into the car, but when I bought it there was nobody to help so I wrestled with it myself.

At least it is just a bit sore and not really injured. After the store run I really did not feel like doing much of anything when I got home.   I kind of panicked when I first got home.  David was at work and Judy’s car was not there when I drove up so I though I would have to unload my car all by myself.

I went to unlock the door and discovered Carlos was home so I was lucky.  We got everything in the house just as Judy drove up so she helped us put everything away.

The morning test and troubleshooting is done and now the afternoon is upon me.  We are a few days ahead so we let the class go for the day and I took the first part of the lunch period to go ahead and take care of a few minor problems.  We had a few transceivers that needed some minor adjustments.   So that is all taken care of.

I have a weird rack problem that I was looking at and it looks like we have a wiring problem from the J3 transceiver cable to the Junction box on the rack.  I have the -12 VDC coming from the radio coming out of J3 but it is not getting to TB1 Pin 18 of the rack.  I am only getting -2VDC so that tells me I have a break somewhere in between.  I am not sure if it is going through any of our fault switches or not.  We tried to trace it out but we have several black wires, none of them labeled or course so it is going to be a job that we will have to do when we have more time. 

We can us the rack for right now so I will wait until we get into antennas before taking everything apart.  I do not want to do it right now as I need that particular bay for the class.  I would have to put it back together at the end of each troubleshooting session soit is better to wait for right now.

Last night was finally a half decent night for television.  We watched “Hell’s Kitchen” and then “America’s Got Talent”.  I find it funny that people who make severe blunders in the kitchen are always pointing the fingers at some of the others. Last night the lady they voted off was very deserving.  She has screwed up every week since this season started and it was finally her time to go. 

On the other side they brought back someone from last season that left for medical reasons.   He was in contention last season when he left, but this season he is really blowing it.  Oh well, such is the drama of the show.

“America’s Got Talent” had some acts that I did not believe should have gotten this far and they voted off a few that I thought should have gotten through.  They are having two acts a show that they voted off come back for a second chance and I am interested to see which of the acts get to come back.

A few of the acts change their program so much that the act was totally different and would have kept them from getting this far.  I like the magic act and the country singer.  I was turned off by the group of drag queens.  There are also far too many groups this year.  The guys on roller skates are OK I guess, but all the basketball acts and cheerleader acts are a little annoying.

Well darn, lunch break is about over and it is time to find something to do.  I will figure something out to keep me busy.