TWiRT 708 - Engineers Live at the ABA in Birmingham

It’s Radio Convention season and we’re bringing some of the Alabama Broadcasters Convention to you.  Live from the Renaissance Ross Bridge Resort, we’re meeting with engineers and radio equipment reps as this ABA Convention draws to a close. One of our highlights is visiting with Steven Westbrook from the Alabama Historical Radio Society. We also get cameo appearances from Bob Mayben, Jeff Welton, and Jim Armstrong. Join us for some fun conversation while we learn a few things about both new and old technologies and some personalities that shaped - and are now shaping - radio tech.

Show Notes:Alabama Historical Radio Society
Alabama Broadcasters Association
Bob Mayben’s Good Time Gold
Summit Technology Group

Guests:
Bob Mayben - Broadcast Engineer, Sales at SCMS, Inc, and Host of Good Time Gold
Jim Armstrong - Director of Eastern US Sales at Telos Alliance
Hugh Price - Sales at Broadcasters General Store
Micah Dempsey - Wireless Manager at MaxxKonnect Wireless
Jeff Welton, CBRE - Regional Sales Manager, Eastern U.S.
Paul Stewart - President at Summit Technology Group
Steven Westbrook - Alabama Historical Radio Society

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

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TWiRT 707 - Broadcast Rules without Chevron Deference

A Google search on “SCOTUS and Chevron Deference” returns a lot of breathless headlines, prefacing pearl-clutching stories of near-calamitous changes in the way Federal agencies can carry out their missions.  Indeed, one dissenting Supreme Court justice wrote that this ruling, “will cause a massive shock to the legal system.”  The ruling will eventually affect some broadcast Rules from the Federal Communications Commission, but communications attorney, David Oxenford, predicts less dramatic effects on broadcast Rules and station operations. To clarify the Chevron decision and it’s likely effects on broadcasters, we interviewed Oxenford for this episode. We also get commentary from Larry Fuss, President and CEO of several multi-station radio broadcasting companies, and co-host, Chris Tarr.  Join us for an informative episode of TWiRT as we discuss broadcast Rules in light of the SCOTUS decision on Chevron Deference.

Show Notes:
Broadcast Law Blog
Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS)
FCC to Reinstate Form 395B - Broadcast Station Annual Employment Report
Rosenworcel Clarifies FCC Plan for Clearer AI Political Ads

Guests:
David Oxenford - Partner at Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer, LLP
Larry Fuss - President, CEO, and Managing Partner at several broadcast groups

Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 706 - Crowdstruck by Crowdstrike

As we are all very aware, being a technical person or layman, the recent CrowdStrike outage caused disruptions on a myriad of computer systems worldwide, affecting multiple industry sectors and millions of people in some way, shape, or form. Approximately 8.5 million devices were affected, leading to outages in various sectors, including airlines, healthcare, and financial institutions. Some broadcasters were affected, but it seems most radio broadcasters were spared. Why is that? What crippled many very large industries had relatively little impact on radio station operations. Three experts join this TWiRT episode: Shaun Dolan, Kyle Walker, and David Smedley. Together we’ll uncover how Crowdstrike affected some broadcasters, and we’ll learn about some best practices for IT security.

Show Notes:
CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer
Kyle mentioned SNMP Monitoring using Nagios
Shaun introduced us to Incident Response - Here’s a TechTarget Article
And here’s an article from Crowdstrike about Incident Response
David Smedley mentioned the https://support.aiir.com/

Guests:
Shaun Dolan - Partner at Inrush Broadcast Services
Kyle Walker - VP, Technology at Weigel Broadcasting Co
David Smedley - Senior Support Engineer at Aiir.com

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

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TWiRT 705 - Clever Ideas from the Workbench with John Bisset

Radio’s beloved John Bisset is back! Author of the “Workbench” column is Radio World magazine, John is bringing us the best ideas from engineers since his last appearance on TWiRT, over six months ago. John’s Workbench columns are found at this aggregation page at https://www.radioworld.com/tag/workbench . Plus, Chris Tarr just drove 2,800 miles to buy a LOT of broadcast equipment.

Show Notes:
Wet Switch Flood Detector - connect to your remote control system for water warning
White LED Strip Lights, 20ft Dimmable Super Bright 24V Led Tape Light 6500K 360 LEDs
Self-Adhesive Reinforcement Labels - Multicolored to mark normal indicator operation
DIY 9 volt battery connection extender (parts)

Guest:
John Bisset - Western US Sales at Telos Alliance & “Workbench” columnist at Radio World

Hosts:
Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.Media
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT 704 - Dogs & Cats Living Together with Larry Janus

Larry Janus is no stranger to broadcast engineering, but his passion is excellent design of vacuum tube based audio circuits, and then controlling their functions using modern control electronics via WiFi. This passion leads to a clever integration of a tube-based mic pre-amp, fully remote controlled using a phone app over WiFi.  This arrangement gives rise to some interesting and convenient possibilities for stage-placed mic pre-amps with remote control. Larry Janus joins us from his well-equipped home lab in Florida.

Show Notes:
Larry’s web site featuring his 2UBES VTX-1 Dual Triode Tube Mic Pre-Amp with WiFi Control
Criteria Recording Studio - Miami
RadioWorld article about Gary Blau - W3AM - Silent Key
History of the Fairchild 660 Tube Compressor
Info on the ubiquitous 12AX7 vacuum tube
Info on the I2C data & control buss, used in many electronic designs
Larry does embedded design work at MANLEY Laboratories

Guest:
Larry Janus - Audio Equipment Designer & Systems Engineer at MANLEY Laboratories

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

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