Are you turning Skype off by just closing the window or right-clicking on the icon in the systray and selecting Quit Skype? It’s still running if you just close the window. Unchecking the box in the Skype audio settings is iffy. It may work if you’re lucky.

We’ll keep thinking.

More from our friend in the desert, Barry Mishkind: For those of you still worried about the delay from Sage on their update software and/or issues in getting it in by Friday, you will be relieved a bit to know the FCC PSHSB issued a Public Notice, noting that there is a period of 60 days to get thi...

And a patch already. Unit will work without patch for Nov 8 changes. From Sage... November 5, 2019 This message is from Sage Alerting Systems regarding your Sage Digital ENDEC model 3644. It applies only to users in the United States. Sage has released the Rev 95 firmware update. You will need to in...

From CRTech: I know many of you knew Gary Ellingson, with Northwestern Media. He was a great friend, brother and mentor to so many of us, many of us have never known an engineering world without Gary Ellingson in it. God must have some pretty big projects coming up, so he called our Brother home. He...

Is this it?

https://mebulbs.com/ps40

In 1999, i needed to do something similar, where the goal was to install a propane line from the tank back to the building. Similar finding methods failed so we attempted to guesstimate by sighting back to the tower. It kinda worked. What we missed was simple but a little complicated to explain. The...

After I read the recent Radio World article on tower rules, something in that may apply here in that an FCC licensee will be responsible for conduct outside the usual FCC jurisdiction. Such as, where a licensee owns a tower on which it has no licensed facilities but doesn’t paint it when needed, the...

I find the words, “transmitted or otherwise sent” intriguing. The first question is, “How else do you send besides transmitting?” The second question is, “Could ‘otherwise sent’ mean by way of an internet stream?” Question #3: Can the FCC regulate that? I wanted to ask these questions this week at a...

If they are even still around, run fast in the other direction from Fujitsu mini-split units. The tech support is overseas (read: language barrier) and our HVAC co. eventually gave up and installed, on them, a typical traditional system instead. This was a studio, not a transmitter, install. They pu...

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The Reading (Pa.) Eagle newspaper declared bankruptcy (Ch. 11) March 20. The paper owns and operates WEEU/830. A story that came out in May suggested the station may go dark. The lone bidder for the paper will acquire the radio station assets but doesn’t want the license. An effort is being made to ...

Think I saw this elsewhere: G-suite and Gmail won’t work with the Sage units. Or Broadcast Tools but that’s another thread. Regarding the paper logs, that’s what I’ve always done. Pretty much in the same way. Even then, that's an email note also attached to the Station Log. Now I had not thought of ...

From: http://www.northpine.com/blog/2019/05/22/contractor-dies-in-fall-from-iowa-tv-tower/ Posted on May 22, 2019 by Jon Ellis A contractor has died after falling from a central Iowa TV tower. KDSM (Des Moines) confirmed the death at its transmitter site near Alleman in a post on its Facebook page: ...

For some reason the engineers never fade that down during ID or commercial breaks.

Old timey thing. The idea was to give the impression you never left the stadium. Also not playing the local spots down the network is unusual anymore.