TWiRT 653 - Burning Man for Radio with Frank Martin

Frank Martin is a thoughtful and insightful broadcast engineer with decades of radio and TV experience. And, he’s sharing some compelling ideas with us on this episode of TWiRT. Based in Los Angeles, California. Frank provides service, integration and support for TV, AM, or FM transmitters and studios

Today we’re discussing a new LPFM filing window (Nov 1 - 8, 2023), ATSC 3.0 television, “Franken FM” stations, C-QUAM AM stereo, and whether market size and career satisfaction are related. Plus, Frank has some final thoughts inspired by The 10 Principles of Burning Man.

Show Notes:
This is a TV story. No wait, it's a Radio story. Stop, It's a little of both. By Michael Couzens
Frank mentioned his favorite movie streaming service, Flixtor.
Frank mentioned the Zapperbox MI, an ATSC 3.0 (NexGen TV) receiver.
I-1430 is an off-the-air live AM stereo stream.
The 10 Principles of Burning Man

Guest:
Frank Martin - MPH Broadcast Services - LA Broadcast Engineer & Consultant

Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 652 - Trends in LED Tower Lighting with Bear Poth

The FAA compliance rules for your tower’s obstruction lighting continue to be updated as evidenced by a November 2020 FAA circular.  Bear Poth, President & CEO at LumenServe, is here to review some key aspects of the regulations that broadcast engineers need to know.  LEDs have been around for many years, however, in the tower lighting world their deployment is creating big changes. 

Our guest, Bear Poth, is the founding President and CEO of LumenServe and has an extensive entrepreneurial and operations background founding and growing numerous telecom and technology-based companies. His experience includes being founder and CEO of companies that have built and operated IP Networks with 3,000+ route miles of microwave/fiber transport, built and serviced 25,000+ VoIP connections, constructed over 1,300 miles of hybrid fiber/coaxial broadband plant, provided 50k+ CATV/telephone/Internet connections, constructed 100k+ square-mile canopy of wireless networks and constructed and operated 500+ wireless towers.  Bear is a long-time member of the Engineering Advisory Board at The University of Texas. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Texas. 

Show Notes:
Free tower resources, including the Tower Lighting Poster
FAA Regulations and Advisory Circulars
Chris mentioned his new Weather Station; it’s the Tempest

Guest:
Bear Poth - President & CEO at LumenServe, Inc.

Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 651 - Click Here to Virtualize with Dan McQuillin

Containerised software offers many benefits that today’s broadcasters are looking for: Flexibility, Resilience, Density, Scalability... but you also need specialist IT skills and knowledge to deploy them. Containerized software installation and configuration typically requires a thorough knowledge of the Linux command line interface (CLI). It also involves several abstract operating system constructs such as MACVLAN and CPU pinning. Moreover, while transaction-based applications may not be time-critical, programs handling real-time audio can’t afford to skip a beat or even rest a cycle or two. Timing is critical. 

Virtual Rack is a user-friendly deployment environment for containerized broadcast software.  The idea is to take advantage of containerized software’s benefits, while simplifying the deployment process. Utilizing purpose-built management software and appliances optimized to run broadcast applications, Virtual Rack enables broadcast engineers to install containerized broadcast products with just a few mouse clicks.

Dan McQuillin, Managing Director at Broadcast Bionics, joins us to explain the philosophy behind Virtual Rack, and further explain how backup and failover is implemented with similar ease.

Show Notes:
Virtual Rack - Broadcast Hardware that Isn’t Hard
Virtual Rack introduced at IBC 2022 (YouTube video)

Guest:
Dan McQuillin - Managing Director at Broadcast Bionics, Ltd.

Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 650 - Recording, Mixing, & Processing for Broadcast with Kirk Yano

Who is Kirk Yano? We’re about to find out on this episode of TWiRT! 

Kirk Yano is a multiple Grammy-winning recording engineer with well over 30 Platinum and Gold records. He has won three Grammys including a Grammy for the last album that Miles Davis recorded. He has worked with Public Enemy, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Placido Domingo and Phoebe Snow, and has toured as a musician with Snow, Savoy Brown, Scott Holt and Texas Scratch.

Kirk was the recording engineer for “Fight the Power’ by Public Enemy which Billboard magazine still lists as one of the most influential recordings.  He was also the engineer on Mariah Carey’s Christmas Album and her Jewel Box album and he worked on History by Michael Jackson.

We'll hear about Kirk Yano's first visit to Nashville and his early association with Steve Church and Frank Foti.  And even how Steve Church sometimes stayed at the "Yano Arms Hostel" (my name for it) in NYC in Steve's early phone hybrid days.  Plus we'll hear about WMMS remotes that Kirk worked on with Frank in the late 1970's.

Finally, we'll understand part of the reason that music started to get really processed in the early 2000's, and how Kirk worked to mitigate the craziness in the music industry, or at least turn it into something musical and useful.  Also, what about the production transition from multitrack tape and mixing consoles to digital DAW production? 

Show Notes:
Part of a video on YouTube with a French host describing Kirk Yano’s essential contribution to Hip Hop music in France.

Guest:
Kirk Yano - Award-Winning Musician, Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer

Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 649 - TX-Control Monitoring Platform with Chuck Kelly & Aimé Diattà

When Chuck Kelly recommends a new technique or technology, it’s important to pay attention. TX-Control is a networked and cloud-based monitoring, alarm, analysis, and control system designed for broadcast equipment. In Europe TX-Control is monitoring over 1,500 transmitter sites, providing custom reports on trends, outages, automatic remediation, and more.  It leverages SNMP, a monitoring and control protocol which is built-in to more and more broadcast equipment. Chuck is joined by Aimé Diattà to help us understand this technology and service that’s watching over critical broadcast infrastructure.

Show Notes:
The TX-Control web site is highly informative with graphical explanations of the system.
The TX-Control brochure shows layout diagrams to help explain the concept and operation.

Guests:
Chuck Kelly - Broadcast Industry Technology Consultant
Aimé Diattà - Consulting, Business Development & Relazioni Istituzionali - 22hbg.com

Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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