I usually won't be caught dead in an equipment rack during a newscast. Twenty-some years ago I bumped a prompter DA once during a newscast and made it blank for a second. Caught more hell from that (all from the on-air anchor) than the three times I messed up the station signal in front of three dif...

... I remember thinking, back when we bought the 40x40 Utah AVS-1 back in 1984, that it was big enough that we would never outgrow it... :lol: I think our AVS-1 started out 40x40 mono, then expanded to 60x40 stereo (but only for the first 40 inputs). Full long before I arrived in '94. Kinda miss it...

So to review, all ISO temps, module current, etc, are about the same? I recall one conversation with Walter that mentioned an occasional issue can be the ribbon cables themselves. I assume you've reseated them all. In some rare instances, they can become intermittent due to air currents moving them ...

...Did you notice that last month Evertz bought Quintech?... No I didn't...great. :roll: We do use Quintech active splitters and LNB supplies. Rolling your own sounds like a fun project. I had to build up some small perfboards with terminal blocks and optos earlier this year, and I wondered when wa...

We use Compusat software... I'd give Andrew a call and see what he recommends. You have to buy something he can talk to anyway. :wink: We've never used a matrix control at my TV day-job, all of the receivers we use have four-port switches built-in, and along with active splitters for each dish, we ...

I am spending Thanksgiving on-call for my 35th straight year... You old! On-call since 1981...does that make me old too? :lol: I did have one call...someone screwed up a shared video folder. A quick VPN session took care of it, then out to the grill to burn some burgers...the family turkey meal is ...

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Sun Nov 18, 2018 8:35 am

Worked out in SW Iowa on a directional...

There are only a couple of directionals in SW Iowa that I'm aware of...KMA and KYFR. Found any burned-up OIB leads in your TX buildings, Mr. Brockmeyer?

Thanks, Deep!

I'll be picking away at this project over the winter in between other problems, but I'll let you all know how it goes.

325 feet of 7/8" foam

I'll accept either a whine or a beg. No need to go overboard. :mrgreen: If you give me a description of the tower and what is on it, I can model it and get pretty close to the right phase shift for optimum bandwidth without having to do a full sweep. Thank you...I won't whine because my wife HATES ...

Greg, if this rebuild is for KSIB-AM, then I was around when the 'new' ATU got built. I think that it happened when the FM Class A went on the air. The carpenters at the Farmer's Coop built the doghouse and Harold Bauman, the engineer at the time, moved the ATU components from the old decrepit meta...

An OIB-1 is not going to give you an accurate tower self resistance for a tower with that high an R and X. Design to the last measured tower impedance unless you have a reason to think it has changed. If you have the last measured impedance I hope it was a full sweep, which will let you optimize th...

DO NOT--repeat--DO NOT try to do this with a "single coil" network. It will be unstable as hell, almost impossible to tune due to the stray reactances and cross coupling between the turns on the coil, and will have shit for bandwidth... Ahhh, yessss! The infamous "Phantom Tee". As stated by others-...

No, and that will have to wait until I recover from Election night broadcasts.

One of my current projects is to replace a rotted-out shack on a ND 1KW site. The existing network is spread out linearly on a shelf, it's a pi network with an extra series inductor on the input and a capacitor in the output line, presumably to cancel Xl of the tower. The licensed R is 425 ohms, but...