TWiRT 293 - LED Tower Lighting with Rodney Zeigler

LED light bulbs are finally getting useful and popular for home and business lighting.  But LED lighting has been available for broadcast and cellular towers for over 15 years.  Early models didn’t last long.  Rodney Zeigler with Nebraska Rural Radio Association joins us with his LED lighting experience spanning a decade, with good news on this efficient technology.

Show links:
Dialight LED FAA Obstruction Lighting
TWR LED Lighting Systems
Tower Beacon Replacement with LED
UNIMAR LED Communications Lighting
Drake LED Lighting
Hughey & Phillips Lighting

Guest:
Rodney Zeigler, Director of Engineering - Nebraska Rural Radio Association

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

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TWiRT 293 - LED Tower Lighting with Rodney Zeigler

TWiRT 292 - IP STLs: Troubleshooting Interference

Just down from a New York skyscraper rooftop, Chris Tobin talks us through troubleshooting RF interference to to some legacy 5.8 GHz radios. And Kirk Harnack shows off a new airFiber IP radio, fresh from configuration and ready for the tower.

Show links:
Ubiquiti airFiber5
Axia xNode
Ubiquiti BulletM
Harris Aurora 5800

Hosts:

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

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TWiRT 291 - AoIP Planning Tips with Stephen Poole

We compare two different brands of Audio over IP mixing and routing systems and find - they’re pretty similar in terms of network planning and wiring.  Stephen Poole of Crawford Broadcasting joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack, looking at Wheatnet and Livewire+. Plus we’re discussing options for secure remote access.

Show links:
Crawford Broadcasting’s “Local Oscillator” engineering newslette

Guest:

Stephen Poole - Market Chief Engineer, Crawford Broadcasting, Birmingham, AL

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

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TWiRT 290 - To Russia with Egor Tyagunov

Egor Tyagunov has been around high-tech all his life.  Much of his childhood was spent living near Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Now in Riga, Latvia - another technology center - Egor works with radio and TV broadcasters in Eastern Europe, Russia, and other CIS countries, demonstrating best audio engineering practices on behalf of The Telos Alliance.

Show links:
Baikonur Cosmodrome
University of Riga - Math & Computer Science

Guest:

Egor Tyagunov - Sales Manager - CEE/CIS, The Telos Alliance

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

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TWiRT 289 - Zeno and KPISS with Sheri Barclay

Radio production and distribution in its newest forms is the world of Sheri Barclay.  She’s a producer and test engineer at Zeno Radio. Her latest project there, Zeno Live, connects hosts and listeners like never before. Plus Sheri reveals the struggles building her own Internet station that has a “storefront” location.

Show links:
Zeno Radio - Connecting webcasters to cell phone listeners
Zeno Live - All in one platform for managing a radio show
KPISS.fm
MXL AC-404 USB mic
RME Fireface UCX

Guest:

Sheri Barclay - Zeno Radio and KPISS.fm

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

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TWiRT 289 - Zeno and KPISS with Sheri Barclay