TWiRT 55 - Neck Up Check Up

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York, W2TRR
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

TWiRT 55 - Neck Up Check Up

TWiRT 54 - Empire Smoke

A BlackBerry app that's - cool?  Seems so.  And what, exactly, caused a failure and burnout on the Empire State Building early this week?  Chris Tobin explains what's going on where King Kong played.

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York, W2TRR
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

TWiRT is sponsored by Axia Audio.  Over 2,000 IP-Audio consoles on-air worldwide.

One of many elements of the Alford FM antenna on the Empire State Building. Photo by Doc Searls

Most of the ESB antennas are shown here including FM, TV, and other services. Photo by Doc Searls

Show notes:

Changing the beacon on the Empire State Building

Photos and info about the FM transmission facilities on the Empire State Building

Old information about antennas on the Empire State Building.  A photo of a small portion of the Alford FM antenna is shown in one photo.

From Doc Searls, a collection of photos of the antennas on ESB.

Electronics Research, Inc. (ERI) - the company that designed, built, and is repairing the burnout of the FM Master Antenna on ESB.

Chris Tarr's Pick of the Week: HistoricalAerials.com

Chris Tobin's Pick of the Week:  TuneIn Radio app for BlackBerry

Kirk Harnack's Pick of the Week: Port Forwarding Tutorials and Info

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TWiRT 54 - Empire Smoke

Update on Friday, October 22, 2010 at 11:26PM by Webmaster

Mike Fitzpatrick posts some terrific photos of the Empire State Building's tower and antennas, as well as the FM RF infrastructure inside the ESB.

TWiRT 53 - Dana Puopolo

We discuss EAS-CAP and FM radio in Windows Phone 7.  Chris and Dana discuss more about IP-Audio applications as STL, remote broadcast, and IP-Audio's use in transportation industries.

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York

Our guest is Mr. Dana Puopolo, Chief Engineer for WURD(AM) and Support Specialist for Barix.  Dana's hands-on engineering experience in both radio and television is considerable.  

Links:

Barix

WURD(AM)

Picks this week:

Emerald Observatory

Dana's favorite bedside radio

Radio-Electronics

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TWiRT 53 - Dana Puopolo

TWiRT 52 - Remotes and IP Endpoints

We continue our discussion of remote broadcast tech, focusing on POTS codecs and IP codecs.  We give a tutorial and discussion of understanding IP transmission bottlenecks - usually at the endpoints. 

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York, W2TRR
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

Some links discussed on the show:

Comrex - Reporter Android app

TieLine - POTS and IP codecs

Telos Zephyr IP and Z/IP ONE codecs

POTS codec at Wikipedia

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TWiRT 52 - Remotes and IP Endpoints

TWiRT 51 - Remotely Speaking

We're talking about technologies - some older ones - for bringing audio from live, outside broadcasts back to the studio.  Marti, Comrex, JK Audio, Telos, satellite, and more.

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Tom Ray - VP, Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting, WOR, New York, W2TRR
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

Country star Con Hunley appearing on WSM, Nashville, TN

Show notes:

Wikipedia entry for Remote Broadcast

We didn't mention one of the oldest remote broadcast technologies.  It's using dedicated audio lines provided by the local telco.  Equalized lines were available, as well as non-equalized lines.  Some equipment used with such "nailed-up" lines (direct from the remote site to the studio) is shown here.

Some manufacturers' equipment we discussed are linked here...

Marti Electronics

Comrex

JK Audio

Telos

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TWiRT 51 - Remotely Speaking