TWiRT 143 - Fybush on Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy challenged hundreds of radio stations from Maryland to Massachusetts. Dozens were off-air – mostly due to lack of power or flooded transmitter sites. Scott Fybush joins us for some preliminary info on New York area stations hit by Sandy.

This Week In Radio Tech is sponsored by:

The Telos Alliance. http://telosalliance.com/now

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TWiRT 143 - Fybush on Hurricane Sandy

TWiRT 142 - Goran Tomas

In every adversity, seek an opportunity. Such is the case this week as scheduling conflicts moved the production of “This Week in Radio Tech” to a morning slot, rather than our usual Thursday evening (8pm US Eastern Time) spot. The opportunity, then, was to get a guest from Europe – normally fast asleep at TWiRT-live time.

Goran Tomas is a recognized expert in audio coding, streaming media, and audio processing for broadcast and streaming. Author of several scholarly and industry white papers about audio processing for encoded audio, Goran talks with us about some best practices and pitfalls when setting up audio streaming.

Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack host this episode.

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TWiRT 142 - Goran Tomas

TWiRT 141 - Stephen Wilkinson

Stephen Wilkinson is Technical Operations Manager at Hope Media in Sydney, Australia. He joins Chris Tarr, Chris Tobin and me to talk about some real-life engineering challenges – like when Stephen lost his main studio-transmitter link – and all 3 backup links failed, too! And Kirk has a sad story about a big coax that departed its tower, and the replacement coax isn’t working either. Why not? Let’s figure it out.

Stephen’s FM station in Sydney: http://www.hope1032.com.au/

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The Omnia.11 FM audio processor. Now available in an FM-only version, saving you thousands of dollars on the incredible Omnia.11 sound. Visit http://omniaaudio.com/11

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TWiRT 141 - Stephen Wilkinson

TWiRT 140 - Different is Different

Mark Persons joins Chris Tobin, Tom Ray and me on this War Stories edition, where the stories are more about peacetime engineering.

Mark describes a vacation spot just for Amateur Radio Operators – Hams. Mark, W0MH, recently stayed there, operated some great radios, and says it really is a Ham Paradise. http://greengate-wibb.com/

Tom Ray talks about load up a flagpole for radio transmission.

Chris Tobin reveals the craziest multi-hop remote radio broadcast ever.

And Mark finished up with great stories about building radio stations in the 1930’s!http://mwpersons.com/old-radio/

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The Telos Alliance and the Telos Z/IP ONE IP-Audio codec. http://telosalliance.com/zip-one/

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TWiRT 140 - Different is Different

TWiRT 139 - Steve Church

Did you ever wonder who first took on chance on licensing IOS MPEG-2 Layer III (MP3) from the consortium that invented it?

And who made the very first broadcast studio product that included a DSP chip?

It was Steve Church on both counts.

In this episode you’ll see and hear a story about a humble, fun, and significant inventor, Steve Church.

Steve founded Telos in 1985 as a part-time business that’s grown become the largest radio studio equipment maker in the world. Steve passed away last Friday from complications of brain cancer.

Discover more about Steve Church and his story at http://telosalliance.com/stevechurch

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The Telos Alliance. http://telosalliance.com/now

WinConnections. Gain insights on the Microsoft technology roadmap, October 29-November 1st in Las Vegas. Visit WinConnections.com and use code Tech100 when you register. http://WinConnections.com

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TWiRT 139 - Steve Church