TWiRT 191 - The Value of Engineering

Engineering repair and maintenance: Is it a “pay me now or pay me later” equation?  Or is there more to it than that?  Are more and more stations just ignoring ongoing, preventive maintenance in favor of just declaring an emergency when they go off-air, or sound really bad?  Chris Tarr has an opinion or two on that, and Chris Tobin does, too.  


Hosts:
Chris Tobin, President, MusicamUSA - www.musicamusa.com
Chris Tarr, Director of Operations & Engineering at 88Nine RadioMilwaukee
Kirk Harnack, VP - Telos Systems - www.telos-systems.com

Follow Kirk on Twitter - @kharnack

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TWiRT 191 - The Value of Engineering

TWiRT 190 - War Stories with Charlie Wooten

What kind of engineer travels to Africa and plants antennas on a beach in Mozambique? Or brings the sheriff to a competitor’s transmitter site to shut it off during a hurricane? Clear Channel’s Engineer of the Year from Panama City, Florida – Charlie Wooten – joins us for an hour of bravery, challenges, and engineering victory on this War Stories episode.

GUEST
Charlie Wooten, Market DoE, Clear Channel – Panama City, Florida

HOSTS
Chris Tobin, President, MusicamUSA – www.musicamusa.com
Kirk Harnack, VP – Telos Systems – www.telos-systems.com

Follow Kirk on Twitter – @kharnack

Follow TWiRT on Twitter – @TWiRTshow

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TWiRT 190 - War Stories with Charlie Wooten

TWiRT 189 - Smoke in the Modem

Remember POTS line frequency extenders? Then in the 1990’s we did remotes with POTS codecs and ISDN codecs. Now IP is transporting remote audio back to the studio, and for more radio stations, live video is a key part of their digital strategy. Chris Crump with Comrex is bringing us up to date on video remotes and shows off the Comrex Liveshot.

GUEST

Chris Crump, Director of Sales & Marketing, Comrex – www.comrex.com

HOSTS

Chris Tarr, Director of Operations & Engineering at 88Nine RadioMilwaukee
Kirk Harnack, VP – Telos Systems – www.telos-systems.com

Follow Kirk on Twitter – @kharnack

Follow TWiRT on Twitter – @TWiRTshow

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TWiRT 189 - Smoke in the Modem

TWiRT 188 - Shane Toven, Towers, & DASH

Climbing broadcast towers and strategizing future audio delivery methods - all in a week's work for Shane Toven, DIrector of Engineering at Wyoming Public Media.  Shane joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack to discuss keeping the Public Radio RF transmitting across Wyoming's landscape.  We also discuss the DASH conference held in Detroit this week - bringing autos and radio together in the connected car.

Guest:
Shane Toven, Director of Engineering, Wyoming Public Media - http://wyomingpublicmedia.org/ 

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, President, MusicamUSA - www.musicamusa.com
Kirk Harnack, VP - Telos Systems - www.telos-systems.com

Follow Kirk on Twitter - @kharnack

Follow TWiRT on Twitter - @TWiRTshow

 

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TWiRT 188 - Shane Toven, Towers, & DASH

TWiRT 187 - Strip & Squeeze - It's CAT5e and RJ-45's

Network troubles? It could be your RJ-45 connectors. Kirk and Chris attach three RJ-45 connectors to a CAT5e cable and test it. We also show you how not to do it. Plus, Andrew Zarian reports on his IP-audio console at GFQ after one year and hundreds of shows.

HOSTS

Chris Tobin, President, MusicamUSA – www.musicamusa.com
Kirk Harnack, VP – Telos Systems – www.telos-systems.com

Follow Kirk on Twitter – @kharnack

Follow TWiRT on Twitter – @TWiRTshow

TWIRT IS SPONSORED BY

Axia Audio and the affordable Axia Radius IP-Audio console.

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TWiRT 187 - Strip & Squeeze - It's CAT5e and RJ-45's