https://www.fema.gov/emergency-alert-test The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on the backup date of October 3, 2018 due...

In our area, this has just been turned on: https://www.rbr.com/a-bustos-media-fm-boosts-with-maxxcasting-plan/ In practice, I think the network has helped the situation a lot. I haven't listened enough to decide to what extent it's "seamless", or whether (in my opinion) the net result might be wort...

So here at the Virtual Engineer, we use a color coding system for identifying who members are. Members who have a username in deep red, which is Doc, Tim Burke and myself, are forum administrators Members who have a username in green are forum administrators Members who have a username in violet are...

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Have you looked at the satellite downlink on a Spectrum analyzer to see what it looks like? It's not unusual for LNBs to start "spiking" across the band, and you could have an issue where one of those spikes are near your desired carrier. Could also be cross-pole. Your cross pole could be a touch of...

Anytime. I know those MTX units inside and out.
Spent a lot of time on them, even working with the developers/special projects guys at MRC modifying HD preset parameters.

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Thu Aug 30, 2018 4:36 pm

Anyone know the pinout for the power input on the ODU?

Yes.

http://www.necrat.us/skippy/ODU.pdf

J and K = +
L and M = -

See attached PDF. It also shows connections to A, F, and G, but in my experience, those aren't needed.

Several decades ago [edit: about 40 years ago!] , the local NBC affiliate bought a package deal from Central Dynamics that included a large production switcher and a fairly large routing switcher (the video crosspoint frames took up a whole rack, as I recall). The production switcher was fine, but ...

BTW I was at your tower last week getting some nice weather updated pictures of it. I saw a van there but didn't want to bother who was inside. Hmmmm... I wonder who that would have been? Of our two people who normally work there, neither drives a van. Maybe it was a tech working on some of the LMR...

According to the manual, pressing the right arrow button during powerup loads the secondary flash code. As far as I know, the best way to unlock the front panel is through the web interface, advanced page, "Device Info" tab. Jeff My co-worker make the mistake of doing an update with windows firewal...

Anyone remember the front panel reset procedure.

The 1290 Push and Hold Right arrow trick isn't the same on the 8200 apparently.

Hey all. My background is as a video producer, but teaching high school broadcasting for almost twenty years, I've become fairly adept at basic TV engineering. That said, our current control room space, which is next door to our news set and has cables run loose, needs to move to a room down the ha...

Hello. I just wanted you to know I split this into it's own topic. You'll get better visibility this way.

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If you have an IPA problem you may have your IPA sent to Michael Patton & Associates in Baton Rouge, LA. They repair and Calibrate your IPA. You may have one of your Pallet Amps that is Burnt and only making half the power and Your IPA is only working on one Pallet. Not sure if your ECO 10 has 2 or...