Is this what you use to paint people who get too close?

Engineers practiced social distancing before it was in style!

Good idea. I almost posted it here, but figured it didn't apply to the majority of members who work in radio.

More broadly, this bug could apply to other systems. I'm a bit nervous about our automation, which was written after the last leap day -- so this will be its first rodeo.

Shane wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:53 pm

2/29 & 3/1 could turn out to be slow news days!

No news is good news, right?

Jeff

Sony has sent out this urgent message: Please be advised that Sony has released an urgent firmware update for the following products: MODEL/FIRMWARE VERSION: PXW-X500: Ver.6.10 or earlier PXW-X400: Ver.4.10 or earlier PXW-Z450: Ver.4.10 or earlier MPC-3610: Ver.2.10 or earlier Reason: RECORDING FUNC...

Similar to changing format... a number of years ago when the Oprah Winfrey show started, we dropped Donahue to run Oprah at 4; the NBC station across town picked up Donahue. Several days later a woman called me to say that she was having trouble getting Donahue on her set. Me: I'm sorry, we don't ca...

A week later, he calls back. His wife bought a VCR & didn't tell him. (and yes, she hooked it up wrong & to output on channel 3) Unusual -- generally it's the guy who buys the toys without talking to his wife. :lol: I got cussed out years ago by a woman who accused us of putting the word "STOP" ove...

Deep Thought wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:31 pm

Makes you wonder how some people find their pants in the morning.

Then again...

That's why I will never use Skype or Facetime to answer viewer calls. Some things are best unseen.

Jeff

For whatever reason, I seem to get the bulk of viewer calls at my station whenever they seem even minimally technical (or when other people simply don't want to deal with them). And some of them are... remarkable. Yesterday's was a woman who started off by complaining that she doesn't see our channe...

Any suggestions with BVT's color tint problem? I still have not figured out what cause this problem, except that the bug is in the TBC (not in the VTR). Hue is controlled by a DC voltage that varies between -5 and +5 volts, with ground (0v) giving you the nominal preset. The front panel knob feeds ...

They can do it because the audio is digitized and processed (i.e. compressed) down to a bit rate that fits in the 10 kHz wide slot. Just like OTA HDTV and mp3's. OTA HDTV (that is, ATSC) uses Dolby AC3 encoding that provides 20-20kHz on every channel except LFE, which runs 20-120Hz. A typical 5.1 e...

You can do that - Open up the METAR page in your browser - For METAR server IP put 0.0.0.0 In the METAR Server DNS Name field put "tgftp.nws.noaa.gov" without the quotes hit SUBMIT and you're done CS Bear in mind that only the more recent firmware releases supports this... you might need to update ...

The RX8200's 3G output is SMPTE 424M, which is single link @ 3Gb/s; the Blackmagic MicroConverter's input is also single link. The two should work together just fine. The Blackmagic converter is about $59 on the street, so your risk is fairly minimal compared to what it would have cost just a couple...

Is it possible to output through 3g sdi level B,a 4K signal from an Ericsson rx8200 receiver? The receiver needs to be equipped with options "RX8200/HWO/HD/3G, FAZ 101 0113/10" to output a 1080p 3G signal. If so,I am thinking of using a Black magic sdi to 4k hdmi converter,which model would be requ...

And if this does come to pass, and if some of the stations that choose to go all-digital also happen to be EAS local primaries, that means everyone who is assigned to monitor them will be forced to find digital receivers suitable for continuous operation, that can be forced to wake up to the correc...