Life was much easier when everything was analog, there was no boot-up (except maybe for tubes warming up), and you could troubleshoot it with a meter and scope. (Yup, said like an old fart!) Except for dealing with the video bandwidth noise, and trying to get the sparklies out of the picture. (Espe...

The Tandberg RX-1290 receivers were nice receivers, except the internal upconversion and cross-conversion never worked. So you were always stuck with using outboard converters. After extensive calls with Tandberg, they admitted their hardware did the conversions in a funky route, which didn't work w...

Make contact with the chief engineer of Entercom in Buffalo, NY. He has a site surrounded by Wind Turbines out in the country, that is essentially a rim shot to the city.

Yes, you do not have a license for the format which you are running. On the Ericcson receivers, certain video formats, such as 4:2:2 (or is it 4:2:0) you need a license to have the receiver decode the video. If you go into the webpage of the receiver, and look at the video it is trying to decode, it...

Yes. I have the solution at work, I will post it when I get in tomorrow.

No problem. We run the feed through a compressor/limiter: there's an enormous variation in level, depending on who is speaking and how excited they are. Dierdre has come close to launching me through the drop ceiling on more than one occasion with her "ATTENTION STATIONS!". :lol: We DA ours into se...

KPJL FM wrote: ↑

Thu May 24, 2018 7:13 am

From now on:
No Soup for You!

If I could "like" a post here, this would be it...

WPRO in Providence took theirs and modified the bar-graphs to be a dimmer, easier on the eyes green color. I remember their engineer telling me how they modified the unit because the blue was too harsh.

A little nerdy humor from LinkedIn.

kkiddkkidd wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 7:46 am

To find out what C-band freq you are looking at, subtract the indicated freq on the specan from the LO of the LNB (5150mhz).

And hope the LNB is using a standard L.O. of 5150 and not one of those odd-balls. While 5150 is normal, I have seen some unusual ones on older dishes.

Let me see if I have a copy of the routerworks software I can let you borrow.

I am having a brain fart on this. On our Windows 10 Burk Auto Pilot machine, the display is all screwed up. The file-edit-view bar is at the bottom and windows are strangley stacked on each other. IIRC, the fix for this is to delete a file, but I can't remember which one. Their support is gone for t...

I worked for an AM station awhile back that had a sponsor for pattern change. I had heard a story, not sure if it was just internet fodder or true, of an oil company that sponsored a pattern change. Would list towns they serve in the day pattern, then it would switch, and continue to list towns ser...

Or the Hollywood Exchange spot, that aired on NBC Network. Started out with bars and tone.

That was a fun one when it aired, and because it was on network, we got no local indication it was going to air.

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Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:09 pm

RGORJANCE wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 28, 2018 6:20 am

They sold reasonably well in the international market, but pretty much bombed in the US.

I seem to recall they used vapor phase cooling in their UHF transmitters back in the 1970s.

WSBK-TV in Boston had a vapor cooled UHF transmitter.