TWiRT 58 - Pet Peeves

What are the pet peeves of broadcast engineers? Poorly-designed equipment? Destructive weather? Lightning? Equipment abuse?  Chris, Kirk, and Chris debate it!

Kirk Harnack - Telos-Omnia-Axia
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

TWiRT is sponsored by Axia. With over 2,000 IP-Audio consoles on air, Axia is the leader in IP Audio. Now

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Show notes:

Public Hearings on Birds and Towers

Mighty Red HD Radio

Chris Tarr's Pick of the Week: USB info at USB.org

Kirk's Pick of the Week: Useful AM and FM devices from Chris Scott and Associates

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TWiRT 58 - Pet Peeves

TWiRT 57 - Shun Mook Shakti

More debate about audio quality and audio processing.  And what if you put a Shun Mook rock on top of a Shakti rock, then bound them together with oxygen-free cable?

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

TWiRT is sponsored by Omnia, developer of the new Omnia.11 FM audio processor.  "Effortlessly loud," says a well-known big-market FM engineer.  Now shipping every one we can crank out.

Show notes:

Mysterious Shakti Stones

Shun Mook Rocks

How much better would radio stations sound if they'd use some of this technology?

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TWiRT 57 - Shun Mook Shakti

TWiRT 56 - Joe Talbot

"Push Radio" - it's not what we thought.  And Joe Talbot joins us with lots of information about telephony for broadcasters.

Kirk Harnack - Executive Director, Business Development, Telos-Omnia-Axia
Chris Tobin - CBS Radio, New York
Chris Tarr - Entercom, Milwaukee, GeekJedi, and Broadcast Engineering Info

Joe Talbot is our guest.  Joe was Chief Engineer at KGO, San Francisco, and now is the Product Manager for telephony products at Telos Systems.  Joe tells us about phone systems for broadcast, including VoIP systems.

TWiRT is sponsored by Telos, maker of the remarkable Nx6 and Nx12 On-Air Talkshow Systems.  Telos is "The Best Way to Hear from There."

Show notes:

Joe Talbot's Pick of the Week:  Online Jitter Test for VoIP Quality

TWiRT 56 - Joe Talbot

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.