Breakdown at 2YA

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 15, 23 October 1931, Page 4

Breakdown at 2YA

ee A Speedy Replacement N Monday evening last 2YA suffered a breakdown of a major character. .The motor generator that supplies the current to the plate supply of the transmitter suffered a short circuit in the armature. This mishap was of a major character, but the company keeps a spare armature for this particulay machine at the station, with the result that its experts were able to get busy at oce and install the spare and put the station back on the air again within several hours. If the spare part had not been available a serious. and sustained breakdown would have occurred, as it would have been necessary either to get the part rewound or replaced by importation from overseas. This is the first occurrence of this kind that. has taken place within the company’s operation of its service, and the fact that the breakdown was so quickly repaired justified the company’s policy of maintaining spares. . The incident showed how dependent nu broadcasting service is,on the engincers, the "men behind the guns," who work unheard and unseen to keep the service going, and, when a breakdown occurs, effect repairs with the minimum of delay. . In the’ case of the mishap at 2YA, frequent announcements ‘were made from the ¥A_ stations, while 2ZW. Wellington, also courteously rendered great service in that direction.