Our Curahuasi Tx Site Relocation to Tinyayoc

Thursday, 12 October 2017

Our Curahuasi Tx Site Relocation to Tinyayoc

25 August 2017

The last thing I need to complete before the Diospi Suyana 10^th anniversary was the relocation of the FM and TV transmission system from the hospital site and guyed mast (an interim solution with marginal coverage), to our now completed “Tinyayoc” site on the other side of the town – a distance of 1.6km.

Tinyayoc is positioned on a rise up to Capitán Rumi – a steep hill on the northern side of Curahuasi and which importantly enjoys a clear line of sight to all of the town and also the valleys extending to the east and west. This will capture most of the surrounding districts with good FM and TV broadcast coverage.

I worked with our Lima based supplier, Intelect to undertake this task. It involved removing antennas and cables from the hospital site guyed mast, installing my new studio to transmitter microwave link (STL) and reinstalling all the transmitter equipment at the new site. We also had to complete site security (razor wire and steel grills to be fitted) and the electrical distribution within our compound.

The project took us a week and were long days for us all. We had just one rigger from Intelect to undertake most of the tower work with a bit of welcomed help from me. And we had to fabricate antenna mounting steelwork pretty much on the fly, with the help of the Diospi Suyana maintenance workshop. Our Dutch missionary Oebele de Haan who heads up the Diospi Maintenance Department (and English speaking), was an amazing help with this and we could not have met our schedule target without him – thanks Oebele!

Here are some photos of the works.

A successful initial test of my TCP/IP program link at the new Tinyayoc transmitter site.

The lowering of one of 4 FM antenna elements from the hospital site guyed mast to the ground.

Our TV antenna panels (foreground) and FM antennas (background) after lowering to the ground.

Transporting our antenna systems in the Diospi Suyana “Unimog” 4x4 to the new Tinyayoc site.

Arranging the relocated antennas and cables for install at our new site.

The Intelect rigger at work installing the antenna mounting pole on the new tower.

Our transmitter compound at the end of a long day – the razor wire install was half finished at this stage.

Hauling up another TV antenna panel to the top of the tower.

My view down standing on top of the tower with all antennas now mounted.

A tired but satisfied customer (me) with the transmitter equipment back on the air. Note this indoor transmitter equipment is still temporarily installed as we await the equipment rack in due course.