TWiRT 307 - Auto-Testing Remote Sites with Doug Irwin

Having designed and installed remote control systems and automated testing on both sides of the US, Doug Irwin is uniquely qualified to talk about the benefits and some pitfalls.  As the Technical Editor at Radio Magazine, he’s also seeing changes in broadcast engineers’ skills and work emphases. Doug joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack on This Week in Radio Tech.

Links from the show:
Programmable Logic Controllers - Failure Mode Management
Radio stations that Stream Like They Mean It (mentioned in the Z/IPStream sponsor message)

Guest:
Doug Irwin, Director of Engineering - iHeartMedia Los Angeles & Technical Editor, Radio Magazine

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT is brought to you by Axia AoIP audio consoles and routing systems. For a single studio or a major, multi-studio production facility, Axia AoIP scales with you.  By Z/IPStream, sponsor of Streaming University from The Telos Alliance. Fourteen video lessons in high-quality audio streaming. And by Lawo and the crystalCLEAR virtual radio console - crystalCLEAR is the console with a multi-touch touchscreen interface.  

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TWiRT 306 - A Day's Work with a Side of Ham with Charles Wooten

Charlie Wooten - ham call NF4A - is our go-to guy for what’s happening in an Amatuer Radio. Charlie joins Chris Tobin with highlights from the Dayton Hamvention including a new member of the D-Star family.  It’s broadcast engineering with a side of ham!

Guest:
Charles Wooten - Director of Engineering and IT, iHeartMedia, Panama City, Florida

Host:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist

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TWiRT is brought to you by Lawo and the crystalCLEAR virtual radio console - crystalCLEAR is the console with a multi-touch touchscreen interface.  By Z/IPStream, sponsor of Streaming University from The Telos Alliance. Fourteen video lessons in high-quality audio streaming. And by the Axia Radius AoIP audio console. It’s a standalone console that also networks. Spend less and get more with Axia Radius.

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TWiRT 305 - HD Multiplex with Philipp Schmid

What if you could transmit fifteen radio program channels from one FM transmitter, and receive them on existing FM-HD radios?  Philipp Schmid, Research Engineer at Nautel, has been demonstrating exactly that.  How does it work, and why might a broadcaster want to do this?  Philipp joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack to explain.

Links from the show:
The HD Multiplex: What Will Be Possible?
BEC Preview: More on the HD Multiplex
Nautel on HD Multiplex
HD Radio Transmission Modes, including MP3 Mode
Paessler PRTG Network Monitoring Software

Guest:
Philipp Schmid, Research Engineer - Nautel, Ltd.

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT is brought to you by Lawo and the crystalCLEAR virtual radio console - crystalCLEAR is the console with a multi-touch touchscreen interface.  By Z/IPStream, sponsor of Streaming University from The Telos Alliance. Fourteen video lessons in high-quality audio streaming. And by the Axia Radius AoIP audio console. It’s a standalone console that also networks. Spend less and get more with Axia Radius.

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TWiRT 304 - Why, Yes, it's WiFi

Chris Tobin joins us with a full hour live, remote broadcast from a park in Newark, New Jersey,  and he’s not using his telco carrier’s data!  It’s just another way that Chris is demonstrating that broadcast engineers can get it done for remote WiFi.  Chris reveals his methods and secrets on this episode of TWiRT!

Links from the show:
Ubiquiti NanoStationM

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT is brought to you by Axia, and the convenience and flexibility of Livewire+, with over one hundred partners and products that work with Livewire. By the new Omnia.7AM audio processor. Truly, AM never sounded this good.  And by Lawo and the crystalCLEAR virtual radio console - crystalCLEAR is the console with a multi-touch touchscreen interface.

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TWiRT 303 - Hey, We Found Chris Tarr!

What’s an engineer to do when the old transmitter you’re getting rid of won’t fit through the building door?  You could cut it apart with a Sawz-All, or you could break out a wall and make a bigger door.  Well, Chris Tarr used both strategies during two recent transmitter upgrades.  The Ninjaneer joins Chris Tobin and me for a TWiRT reunion episode.

Links from the show:
Radio magazine’s story about the Cumulus NASH facility

Guest:
Chris Tarr, Wisconsin DoE - Entercom

Hosts:
Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist
Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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TWiRT is brought to you by Lawo and the crystalCLEAR virtual radio console - crystalCLEAR is the console with a multi-touch touchscreen interface. By the new Omnia.7AM audio processor. Truly, AM never sounded this good. And by Axia, and the convenience and flexibility of Livewire+, the most advanced AoIP networking from the people who invented broadcast AoIP.

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