I had heard rumors of a new version of the Video Toaster that had run on Amiga hardware. I assume if it's been resurrected that it would run on more modern, likely Intel, hardware. I had one of the originals in our district before I was able to score a Chyron VP-2, which we used until it got so tire...

There was a BW TX-5 V2 5 watt transmitter on ebay last week. I've used a BW TX-50 as a standby. It has a simple 4 band processor included, The only problem is the display seems to go bad with time. Has a good remote interface. I had a couple of TX-5 original versions and that was the problem. I sti...

I don't know if any of the lower power Broadcast Warehouse products are type accepted / certified for LPFM operation but I used one of their TX5 FM transmitters for a radiating coax in-building FM signal for a high school radio station project a number of years ago and it kept chugging happily witho...

I have the 286a versions. I can't find my copy of the schematics at the moment but it's possible the ones I previously linked to may be close enough for troubleshooting. I don't recall what I did to the one I repaired and it's no longer available to me to examine which components I replaced. Does th...

You don't mention which version of the 286 you have. I do recall something similar to what your speaking of with the original Project 1 version, which has the separate wall-wart power supply. I have a few of the updated 286a units and have never had that issue, although I found them a bit too transp...

I've often used the Lattice Combiner/Splitter

That's hilarious! They lived with the problem for all the time they occupied the house and it could have been resolved simply if they had made a query to the station. I had a business on the opposite side of the transmitter site from a 1KW daytimer that would hear our station in their phone system. ...

Thankfully not on call, but never know what will happen if the phone rings. For those of you who haven't gotten your fill of falling turkeys: WKRP Turkey Drop in 30 Seconds Hope everyone has/had a wonderful holiday without a call from "Ms. Burke" or your favorite silence sensor or transmitter monitor.

None on my end. Sorry.

Otherwise, all mission critical stuff at my sites is still Win-7. As for stability, I've had Win-7 on mountaintops for years, with zero problems. Yank out everything you don't need, make sure your drivers are compatible with what you're doing, turn off updates and lock the thing down. Most of the t...

Unless I missed things while skimming, as in TL;DR, the suggestion I noted was the disable the update service which from the last time I tried that it didn't work. It's been ahile but I think it was this article, How to set an Ethernet connection as metered on Windows 10 , that I used at one of my s...

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