Sometimes trying to explain things to somebody who's neither in the biz or has any tech savvy can be a challenge. I'm dealing with somebody who is insistent in wanting to migrate their station on-air automation (as well as other systems) over to Windows 10. While some might argue that Win10 is much ...

All worked here on the East Coast. I was at my 9-to-5 job in a classroom where students weren't suppose to have their phones on them. I can tell how many paid attention as they got ratted out by the alert.

@Bob: For removal the Chip Quik works fine with a decent soldering pencil as it keeps the solder molten for quite a while. Of course when you're out of it you need to find an alternative, considering I rarely do SMT board repairs. Without Chip Quik I use Kaowool insulation and cut a hold big enough ...

I usually get it from Mouser when placing regular parts orders:

https://www.mouser.com/Tools-Supplies/S ... 2eZ1yzskbq

I wonder if the de-soldering alloy I use for surface mounted chip removal would have made things easier to remove. I never think of using it for other han SMD repair.

Anybody have an idea of the manufacturer of this transmitter? It appears it was a SanDisk Compact Flash memory card

KEXP returns to Seattle airwaves after 11-year-old digital memory card takes station down

Sorry, but windows 10 is garbage. they keep taking out features from PRO, they reinstall "Apss" and change your settings with every update (that you have little control over when they are installed, you can defer them for up to 60 days max I believe). Don't have my notes handy, but changing the wir...

The OP mentioned it was a USB device. Depending on driver and hardware I usually make sure that the power can't be inadvertantly powered down by the computer.
I was having a problem with other hardware failing until I disabled this setting across all the USB ports.

The beauty of it is that it is so typical of how radio was in the 70’s. Not real far from the truth. 70's? I worked at a station in the mid-late 1980's where they could have scripts for the next 10 seasons! I note that all the WKRPs in Dave’s database were named after the show first came on. Reckon...

It's even more hilarious when I hear the local AM carry a Yankees game where there's dead carrier throughout the game except for the commercials, which fire off and play fine. Considering this particular station is owned by a major group who recently shed a billion off their debt you'd think they'd ...

I've used a couple of the BW transmitters and experienced two problems. I had the final output go soft, not making maximum power output after a year or two, and the backlight on the transmitter had gone dim. It's used as a backup for the backup so it's not a pressing matter, especially back before t...

Looks like an EV 666 to me (if that's a clip I see holding them). Had a few of them at the high school FM station I started out at back in the mid 1970's.

I don't know why it took me this long to think about it, but how about loading Win7 or something older in a virtual machine using VirtualBox? I do that when I need software that doesn't run natively under Win10.

I was meaning to share this as it was told by a technical scientist I'm acquainted with: A user had apparent spilled some portion of a cup of coffee into a laptop they had been working on. The scientist picked it up and started walking to their lab hurriedly due to the spill. Unbeknownst to him one ...

I wonder if the soup is/was less toxic to the PC board than the incident I heard, which was when a jock dumped a large orange juice into a PR&E BMX console. Took out the entire backplane and then some. Luckily it wasn't at any of my stations.