

Tinker Tom (the Railroad Scientist) and Desdemona (Railroad Leader) have been present at the Mercer Safehouse site since after I scavenged the stuff from the hospital and communication site, as directed earlier by Tom. I have scrounged more than enough material to built all the "Special" components of the Signal Interceptor apparatus, plus twice as many generators as the game calls for. I have completed the Freedom Road quest, had the Courser Chip anolyzed, joined the railroad, built a community at the Mercer Safehouse, built and powered a recruiting beacon, welcomed settlers and built positive scores on all the food, water, happiness, yadda yadda stuff that is tracked along the top of the workshop screen. all of the above leading to the fact that I still have an objective marker appearing over the Reflector Platform, and therefore the apparatus will not teleport me to the Institute: Pardon the length, I will try to list everything I have done correctly so far, plus most of the alternatives I have tried, and then describe my present wiring configuration.


I have read every post on this subject that I can find in this forum, as well as a half-dozen online "tutorials," and I am still having the same problem, so I started this new string.
