A question: does the spur appear when operating into the dummy load, or only when working into the antenna? What happens when you add your ‘SWR inserter’ with the line feeding the antenna? Forgive me if you’ve already addressed these ideas - the thread’s getting too long for me to remember everything!

I don’t know about you, but I feel a whole lot better now.

All part of the job I suppose

Hey, fixing toilets and plumbing is traditionally part of the job description, right?

Yeah I’m sure Simian is way different today than WaveStation was then. Does anyone see any problem doing that? No. I think that’s exactly what you need. In that previous WaveStation installation of mine, the studios were moved while I was on what turned out to be a sabbatical. Someone else set it up...

Simian may or may not be different from WaveStation in this regard — and I have no experience with Simian yet — but I found WS would play files from a network drive if UNC paths to the folders were used rather than mapped drives. I had one station with a lot of long-form (block) programs with all fi...

By my high-level mathematics I think that makes you even older!

I actually started being on-call in 1977 but had a long break from that from ‘79 to ‘93. Wasn’t smart enough to avoid getting sucked back in, I guess. We’ll see how long it lasts this time.

kkiddkkidd wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 22, 2018 9:05 am

I am spending Thanksgiving on-call for my 35th straight year...

You old!

Happy Thanksgiving, all. Mine will be marked by not being on call for the first time since 2003 (and before that back to 1993). Goes with being on the beach. I am starting a new job out of the business Monday. I may yet find a way to screw this up by Christmas!

I've had Win7 boxes with 80gb drives pretty much self-distruct over time due to limited drive space, even on limited use hardware such as digital signage or kiosk operations. A lot of this is Windows bloating up a certain subfolder under the Windows folder. I’m typing on an Apple device so I can’t ...

northpine.com keeps pretty good track of DTV and FM-HD subchannels but only for the Upper Midwest. They do change a lot, probably one reason the FCC doesn’t keep track of them.

So does a news story count? (i.e.: part of a newscast rather than a separate “announcement” as we in the industry typically think of as a PSA?) Reading 11.46, it’s just unclear enough (what with the qualifications “...infomercials or programs” [infering that length or being paid for are not issues] ...

My VZ flip fone got it, at least it was on the screen for me when I was reunited with it. Didn’t hear it sound off and everything was on. The screen message was not date-time stamped which was less than helpful had it been real. I have an iPhone which isn’t a phone at the moment. (No longer on compa...

Excellent creative solution to the legal problem! Needs to be a textbook example. NAB?

awsherrill wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:55 pm

On the other hand, here's a Denver TV reporter who found a way to do a story on the WEA without using prohibited tones, but actual duck noises:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYRv_ZkU3sA

quack quack

Don’t know if they’re available for the 3CX and the rig in question but a constant voltage transformer on the filament supply would take care of part of the filament voltage management. Drawback is you can’t adjust it either but it would get rid of the +- 4% variation. At a much lower power level I ...

Another BTW. The hybrid we used in that late 70’s/early 80’s scenario was made by Studer. You might find one of those inexpensively. Check with engineer types from local full service stations to see if they might have one they’d let you have free.