TWiRT 508 - Big VoIP & Mountain Engineering with Marcos O'Rourke

Not many radio engineers handle a phone system for 500 employees, but Marcos O’Rourke does! Five years in the planning and execution, and now KWave Radio, plus the church campus they’re part of, are saving close to $10k per month in phone service costs. Plus, their Santiago Peak transmitter site is getting a rebuild - with a very efficient setup. 

Show Notes:
Santiago Peak - LIVE WEBCAM
Shure MV88 professional stereo mic for iPhone
KWave Network Status Page from Statuspage.io

Guest:
Marcos O’Rourke - Chief Engineer, KWave Radio, Santa Ana, California

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 507 - Cloudified Broadcast Audio Processing with Mary Ann Seidler

We knew it was coming - and now it's here....  Top-shelf audio processing and FM stereo coding in "the cloud" - either private cloud or "public" cloud. There are big possibilities here, and Mary Ann Seidler joins us to tell all.  Plus, Chris Tobin rounds out the show with advice that’s especially timely.

Show Notes:
kmfm UK Goes Virtual with High-Density Virtual Audio Processing
How Software Audio Processing Makes Planning for Transmission Changes More Flexible
Nautel Webinar: Radio Air-Chain Innovation Webinar #2: Problem Solved

Guest:
Mary Ann Seidler - Broadcast & Streaming Audio Processing Consultant

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 506 - Audio Builders Workshop with Chris Kincaid

If you’ve ever thought, “There should be a group that promotes learning electronics and audio to teens and college students,” well, there is! It’s Audio Builders Workshop (ABW), a working group of the Boston AES Section.  Chris Kincaid is lecturer at the Purdue School of Engineering & Technology and Program Manager with ABW. While many ABW events focus on simple electronic kits, more seasoned engineers have access to truly professional projects. Large diaphragm condenser mics, ribbon mics, 500-series format mic preamps, and studio audio levelers are DIY projects available through ABW’s partner companies. 

Show Notes:
Audio Builders Workshop
ABW - a working group of the Boston AES
ABW Metronome kit from CrowdSupply - as seen on TWiRT and built by Michael Harnack
Bumblebee DIY ribbon mic kits
DIYRE CP5 Colour Mic Preamp Kit
DIYRE OLA5 Opto Compressor Kit
MicParts DIY Microphone kits
AES Show - Fall 2020
Chris Kincaid mentioned Max8 aural and visual creation software

Guest:
Chris Kincaid - Program Manager at Audio Builders Workshop

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 505 - Overcoming Social Distancing with Chris Tobin and Greg Dahl

Broadcasting from home - working alone - informing and entertaining - keeping virtual company with our listeners; we’re doing the best we can during these continued lockdowns and social distancing. Industry events keep getting canceled or postponed, and we’re substituting in-person meeting with virtual ones and with webinars.  Is it working?  Are some things actually a bit better this way?  Kirk and Chris explore these notions. Plus we’re talking with Greg Dahl.  He’s bringing “The Next Best Thing” to 40 cities across the USA over the next 4 months in a socially distanced mobile equipment show. 

Show Notes:
Chris mentioned Busby Berkeley a couple times. Here’s the camera shot he’s talking about.
Society of Broadcast Engineers 2020 National Meeting Goes Virtual
RJ Russell Is SBE’s Engineer of the Year
Read updates on Greg Dahl’s Next Best Thing tour on this Facebook page.
… and on this LinkedIn page.

Guest:
Greg Dahl - Broadcast Engineer at Second Opinion Communications, Inc.

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 504 - Rocket Radio Telemetry with Cornelius Gould

Engineering in various disciplines is a big part of Corny Gould’s career path. From major market broadcast engineer, to audio processing algorithm developer, to podcast content creator, Corny Gould applies techniques from each specialty to improve the others. Today we’re looking at gathering accurate sensor data from a model rocket that may be moving close to Mach 1, and reliably transmitting this data to a ground station. 

Show Notes:
9 Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Transmitter - a Nautel eBook
Corny’s advanced rocketry podcast, “The Rocketry Show”
The Model Rocket Show - a podcast for those newer to rocketry
Tripoli Rocketry Association
The National Association of Rocketry
BPS.SPACE - Thrust Vectoring at Model Scale
We discussed the Kalman Filter concept

Guest:
Cornelius Gould - Audio Algorithm Developer and Rocketry Engineer

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

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