TWiRT 17 - Q&A

Your questions, our answers.  It's a Q&A episode of TWiRT.

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Int'l Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info 

Where do you go to learn about radio engineering?

Will we see real Internet bandwidth in rural areas?  Enough to watch Internet TV?

DRM could be implemented in Australia.  Any chance for the US?

We debunk a myth about tying your mic cables into a big knot.

And our co-hosts favorite questions from station staffers.

We're supported by:

www.meeksmixedmedia.com

www.violetusa.com

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TWiRT 17 - Q&A

TWiRT 16 - Skinny and Pissed

Working Smarter with Reduced Budgets

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Int'l Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info 

Guest - Ian Oakland, Audio Emporium

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TWiRT 16 - Skinny and Pissed

TWiRT 15 - Fybush on Towers

Scott Fybush on Broadcast Towers

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Int'l Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info 

Guest - Scott Fybush

www.theradiojournal.com
www.fybush.com

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TWiRT 13 - Fybush on Towers

TWiRT 14 - No Dial Tone

The end of wireline telephone is in sight.  Impact for broadcasters?

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Int'l Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

AT&T is petitioning the FCC to let them change their business model and, hence, their responsibilities.  Some engineers point out all the traditional services they rely upon, including burglar alarm circuits.  

Read up on Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and let us know what you think.

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TWiRT 14 - No Dial Tone

TWiRT 13 - Flashlights and Webcams

Flashlights, webcams, and bad-weather prep for your transmitter site.  Plus engineering in small-town radio - what's different, better, worse than at big-city stations?

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Int'l Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

This week's guest is Mike Mesic, co-owner of WLGE-FM.

Notes from Chris Tobin about transmitter site preparedness:

+emergency numbers, personnel

+flashlights(by the entrances),

+Web cams - DLink - DCS6620G

+ice shield cleaning,

+studio numbers

install webcams at tx site

-- you can observe the state of your tx site

---building entrance

---tower lights

---tower bases - atu shack

---overall surrounding area of the property lines

---work with local Public safety agencies and setup a call tree for your tx site.

--offer to tour your tx site with local PD/Fire/public works

--- including them can go a long way, when they are asked about those towers the folks can appear well informed.

--plan in advance to contract with snow removal or landscaping companies, this will save money and puts you at the top of the dispatch list.

--have a portable gas genset at the site.

---if you lose the primary genset due to whatever, you will need power to light the area and run your wireless internet/voip/etc..

---prior to a winter storm event

----monitor local weather reports, if stormy wx is on the horizon, then schedule a PM on the tx site HVAC/Genset/Fuel tank levels

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TWiRT 13 - Flashlights and Webcams