Jim Patterson and Park Elevator are the only two names I can recall.

About two weeks ago, I had no trouble ordering a step-start contactor retrofit kit for a HT-10. I had far more trouble finding all the other damage caused by the lightning hit that took the step-start contactor. The plate transformer primary wires were right up against the bobbin of the transformer ...

Every quarter, one of our local Chevy dealers runs 30-second spots that are silent...black background with supers that slowly fade in and out. They get my attention!

Oh boy...when did this happen?

Not having a backup STL option is...wow. We heard a horror story of a station that didn't have a backup encoder and spent (I think) 4 days off the air. We still have our original Flexicoder and a NetVX still around for doomsday duty, and two matching Selenios as our main and backup encoders. What's ...

I've only had one Z PA failure, and I didn't fix it myself because I didn't have the time, but Paul Thurst's broadcast engineering blog has details on swapping Z PA FETs. I don't believe he had to align anything. One thing to be mindful of is the age of the transmitter. Harris changed the FET suppli...

I'm working on an AM-1A with a similar problem...symptom was high reflected power, even when running into a good dummy load. I was advised to first try the balance adjustment procedure on the Directional Coupler replacement manual (you can download it from the BE website). That got the reflected pow...

I have a RF client that is still running a version that predates me... Probably early 90's in what looks like DOS. I have never had to touch it since a guy at the station is intimately familiar with it and keeps it limping along. One of my clients has two DOS Smartcaster chassis sitting in the base...

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Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:21 pm

http://www.smartsbroadcast.com/manuals.htm

Dang it...you're quick on the draw.

http://smartsbroadcast.com/library/ Here you'll find manuals for the current Skylla product and the older Smartcaster 2002 product that merged the DOS Smartcaster program with On Air Digital's RS-HD Linux-based audio playout...the Smartcaster software runs in a DOS emulation window within Linux. If...

Yup, they are only doing 608 apparently. This started on May 13th with Fallon. Commercials come though with 708. I have my encoders set to translate 608 to 708 when 708 is missing, so that explains why I still have CC on my Volicon recordings. I just found out NBC has moved network master control t...

Make it three thumbs-up for Compusat. It works, and it controls a lot more than receivers. It costs, but if you have to automate receiver switching, dish moves, recordings, etc...this is the way to go.

I spot-checked our Volicon and all looks good.

We finally had a chance to test this end-to-end today, and it worked! Thanks again NECRAT!

Thanks for all of the great replies everyone! I actually have a new question regarding Namedropper. This is the box that just wont stop! After all of the drama with getting the triggers to receive properly, I now have an issue with LTC. When we set it up initially, we just set the time manually unt...