TWiRT 576 - What Did YOU Do - And How - Last Year? with Chris Tarr and Sam Woo

Sam Woo owns a media content and consulting company, Primetime Radio. He collaborated with former TWiRT co-host, the late Chris Tobin, on technical improvements and logistics for producing the “Let’s Go Devils Podcast” as well as corporate events and more. Sam joins us to talk about his collaborations with Chris Tobin, and to show us the “Menlo” that Chris Tobin often used for his appearances on TWiRT. 

Since Chris Tobin’s passing, Kirk Harnack has been hosting TWiRT solo for the past year. Kirk recently invited an engineer familiar to many of us, Chris Tarr, to rejoin TWiRT as a regular co-host. To our delight, Chris Tarr has accepted the invitation and will be on TWiRT regularly! Chris Tarr also joins us on this episode to fill us in on highlights of his engineering work in 2021.

Show Notes:
Chris Tarr mentioned LUCI software for live remote broadcasts
Sam Woo produces the Let's Go Devils Podcast
The Let’s Go Devils Podcast get rather rowdy. See this video and watch for Chris Tobin and Sam Woo in the video.

Guests:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Sam Woo - Founder and CEO at Primetime Radio

Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 575 - Minding Your AM Site with Benjamin Dawson and Stephen Lockwood

A few AM station owners have turned their licenses back into the FCC, giving up on their AM radio business. Many other AM station owners, however, are looking for ways to profit from their AM transmitter site property, or to reduce transmission site costs. Co-locating with land mobile and cellular towers using an inexpensive slant-wire feed for the AM station may be a solution for some AM station owners. There are other financial mitigations as well. Benjamin Dawson and Stephen Lockwood from Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers join us to discuss the possibilities. 

Show Notes:
“Collocating AM Transmitter Facilities With Cellular Monopole Towers“ - Radio World
“Optimization of Shared-Frequency AM Antenna Systems Using Synergistic Filter Design” - Ronald D. Rackley, PE
Deferred Maintenance and Its Effects on Future Costs - Ben Dawson
Revisiting Medium Wave Ground System Requirements - Ben Dawson & Stephen Lockwood
We talked about Maxwell’s equations (from Wikipedia)
Crane Arc from AM Station RF (video clip)

Guests:
Benjamin F. Dawson, III, PE - Consulting Engineer, Hatfield & Dawson
Stephen S. Lockwood, PE - President/Senior Electrical Engineer, Hatfield & Dawson

Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 574 - Make It a Better Place with Alex Roman

Is the Mayor of Verona, NJ, doing the engineering work at the top stations in New York City? Or, is the CTO at those top-rated stations moonlighting as a New Jersey township mayor?  Either way, you’re right. Alex Roman leads a staff of engineers and IT pros at WQHT-FM and WBLS-FM in New York City. He says that “radio IT” is the same as “regular IT”, and we all need to work with that notion. Alex reveals other insights and techniques for broadcast engineering, remote workers, and lots of outside broadcasts on this episode of TWiRT.

Show Notes:
HOT97’s YouTube channel showing much of their video production
Alex mentioned E2X transport for HD Radio channels over IP
Ha! We talked about the Blue Yeti on this week’s show, too!

Guest:
Alex Roman - Chief Technology Officer at MediaCo New York City Radio & Mayor, Verona, NJ

Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 573 - Boomer Push for Digital with Quentin Howard

A real pioneer in deploying digital audio sources, infrastructure, and transmission in the UK - and even worldwide, Quentin Howard is our guest on this fascinating episode of TWiRT.  Already a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Quentin was further honored as a Fellow of the Radio Academy in November, 2021. We’re discussing the first uses of Compact Disc digital audio in the UK, as well as the UK’s first use of audio processing on FM broadcasts in the 1980s. DAB rollout and the subsequent DAB+ ratification and rollout are also among our topics. We round the show out with what may be the perfect radio format for many TWiRT fans - Boom Radio!

Show Notes:
Boom Radio - Direct AAC stream link - Direct MP3 stream link

After much testing in home environments, Quentin prefers these two mics:
RODE NT-USB
Blue Yeti

Inovonics 250 FM audio processor
David Lloyd - Boom Radio presenter
Quentin mentioned he likes to evaluate audio quality with Mozart’s Piano Concerto 21
DAB and DAB+ in the UK (Wikipedia article)

Guest:
Quentin Howard, F.I.E.T. - Radio and TV Media Executive, Technologist and Consutant

Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 572 - Cruisin' for Engineering with Shane Toven

Vacations are important - for our well-being, sanity, restfulness, and more.  But Shane Toven just can’t stop thinking and talking about broadcast engineering and the technologies that attend it!  From the enormous cruise ship, “Majestic Princess,” Shane joins us via SES satellite link using their O3b Networks technology. So, what do you talk about with a man on vacation? Food? Ports of call? Tracking tags? Tower sites? Staying connected to work? Satellite data transport technology?  Yes!

Show Notes:
O3b Networks (Wikipedia) - Global coverage Internet access from medium earth orbit satellites
O3b mPOWER web site from SES
O3b mPOWER site explaining rationale for medium earth orbit coverage
“SES” is an acronym for Société Européenne des Satellites
Live map of the Majestic Princess
Another live map of maritime traffic along the West Coast of Mexico
Article about wearable RFID tags for cruise passengers and more

Guest:
Shane Toven - Senior Broadcast Engineer at Educational Media Foundation

Host:
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 572 - Cruisin' for Engineering with Shane Toven