I've given up thinking that stopping Windows updates is possible, and it is moderately undesirable in the absence of "proper" IT support.

I now just accept it happens, and plan to have a backup audio source on the silence detector.

Some true on-line units are very picky about the incoming power quality, which to me makes no sense, as all the incoming power really has to do is charge the battery and provide DC for the always-running inverter. TrippLite in particular wouldn't run on a mechanically-governed generator at an AM st...

If you do have translators on multiple channels, then make sure you list all the frequencies in the AF section of the RDS data, and then radios will automagically select the strongest signal. We are about to experience the fun that two non-syncronised translators on the same frequency with some over...

"Tie lines"

kkiddkkidd wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:40 pm

Another rule of thumb is that if you are uncomfortably warm, so shall modern equipment be...

I hear you on that

I remember being told about a semiconductor rule of thumb: every 10C extra temperature halves operational life.

Our little one-studio station currently operates fine using a Soundcraft analogue radio desk, but, we're looking to change our way of operation. Basically, we'd like to be able to have remote studios, effectively in people's homes. These homes will be connected using no more than a VPN over the inte...

jantonuk wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:13 pm

AM talk morning show interviews and phone calls.

For that kind of use the dbx will be just fine. It's done all the time with this kind of tool in live and conference settings. Talk is different to full programme material where a multiband excels.

Although the dbx compressors are great tools, they are probably the wrong shaped tools for the job you want.

This is a compressor intended to be inserted in the channel of a mixer for a single instrument, not a compressor intended to tame an entire mix.

Instead of typing <ip address>, type http://<ip address>

If one goes to http://nautel.com and click "NUG sign-in" at the top of every page, and then register, one gets access to a coverage calculator, which knows about terrain, and thus can give you an attempt at seeing where you can reach from where you might want to transmit from.

Thanks; the Marti SCD/SGC pair look the ticket, and BE still appear to make them!!! Or, at least, they are not listed as discontinued.

Funnily enough I have a Metrosonic receiver...

Conventional SCA encoders/ decoders still widely available, using 67 Khz subcarrier--with DTMF tones Help me out here, TPT; could you name a couple of brands? My google fu is failing to find anything at all. Edited to ad: it's the SCA bit I'm having trouble with, DTMF encoders and decoders not so m...

Here is a hardware solution. It decodes DTMF itself and specifically mentions commercial insertion in it's propaganda sheet. DEVA Broadcast DB8000 You posted whilst I was writing... This will make you laugh. I like the Deva stuff, we've got a couple of their DB7000s. I've looked at their solutions ...

For the most part, not legal--unless you are outside the U.S. Yes, am outside the US; I've not looked at the licence docs, but I've had it suggested to me that what we have is multiple transmit licences, so we could in theory produce a completely different programme for each transmit location and b...