Our chapter (74) actually started using Zoom for our meetings before the pandemic/epidemic to bring people in that were too far away to travel including our sister chapter in western Nebraska. So we already knew how to use it when we had to! Why, you could even come to our meetings.

Our own Chuck Gennaro, welcome to SBE membership!

“Abandonware.” Sounds like Microsoft.

Yikes, I remember once upon a time dialing into various Wizard for Windows systems using a modem and pcAnywhere... me, too, but with wavestation. Don’t recall ever having any security issues but the remote access was always disabled during business hours, partly for security and partly to be able t...

Having a separate VPN for the studio systems should help keep things safe. The extra security is worth the trouble.

And if it is ENCO, and if you choose to do any normalization using Convert be sure to do the procedure on copies of the originals or else have Convert save the newly normalized files to new cut numbers, especially if your music files are MPEG instead of WAV. This is because Convert has to make the f...

Adobe Audition and its Cool Edit predecessor will batch normalize but not sure if the metadata is then saved. One could test it to see. I was thinking the same thing as Kevin: maybe one output level in the sound card virtual mixer is set hot. Another question is whether that setting is getting jacke...

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“...the last AM filing window was in 2004...”

The FCC, being composed primarily of lawyers*, does not seem to grasp that eventually people die.

Or they do and that is their strategy.

*no offense intended to our own TPT

The original point of the expanded band was to make a place to which stations could migrate that would alleviate interference in the traditional AM band while making a place that was relatively free of interference for the stations which chose to move. So, in order to be on the expanded band a stati...

Happy birthday, Tim. Glad you still choose to hang out with us!

As well, an STA request was filed that same day to “return” to silent status, so they claim to have been on the air for some short space of time before the end of May, which at that time would have been the license saving maneuver, since it was due to expire May 31st. Anyways, it looks like there ar...

RGORJANCE wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:19 am Chuck:

That could be it. Although, I have this "Instrument Calibration Services" name rattlin round in dah noggin, hey. They could have changed names over the years.

Fossil

Aren’t they in Minneapolis?

There you go. From now on no more EAS propaganda during election years!

Where are the meters?