I have one FM station with an air studio, prod studio, tiny office and a bathroom in less than 1000sqft. The air studio occupies close to 1/3rd of the total space. It is very engineer unfriendly but is perfectly functional. The owners office is at his home where he also has a small studio. I have an...

jthorusen wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2019 1:49 am

Re Labeling:

Don't forget to put the shrink on BEFORE terminating the wire!

Regards,

I have hard enough time remembering to put the Nuetrik connector cap on ...

I have been using a Dymo Ryno 4200 for several years. Other than the obscenely expensive large format label maker that I have stashed at the shop, it is the best that I have every used. IF you get the good tape, the labels stay put. I bought some knockoff tape and it was a disaster... I too typicall...

Multi pair Gepco (or whatever the replacement for Gepco is these days). One pull, many pairs... Pull about 2x the pairs that you think you need. Punch it down onto your choice of terminal blocks and enjoy many years of not having to pull a wire every time something changes. Cat5 is great if you are ...

In case someone here hasn't heard... Ron Rackley passed away last Friday. The family is requesting privacy and no details are available at this time.

Ron was a good friend and brilliant mind. I will miss his wit and wisdom.

Regards,

I don't know enough about the sat receivers. Can they handle multiple programs at the same time? What is broadcast on this "test" channel? Is it tone or an actual audio source they don't care about? Bob M. It depends on the syndicator but it typically is an unencripted, repeating voice message with...

However, since the test channel is coming out of the LNB on a slightly different frequency than the program audio, I could be very well be wrong but I had understood that all of the audio streams were mass encoded (QAM?) data upon a certain syndicators carrier. Then the RX receives the RF signal, d...

Actually I did listen to another station last year, and never heard a single dropout. They could be getting the feed via a different source. They probably could easily record it as they record and delay other shows to be aired at a later time. It would be much easier to do during a day game, but th...

Yeppers. And it's NOT a vanity call...lol. Yeah, we lost the Super Bowl that year, along with dozens of other stations. Westwood claimed an instrument from a nearby marching band generated a sub-audible note of the right frequency that tripped their decoder. I guess they never heard of a high-pass ...

It could even be the transmitter but that currently seems unlikely. If we can bridge the balanced audio and record on a pc... once we hear the problem we can note the time and on air content.... then listen to the recording to see if it occurred at that node... Intermittent problems can be maddenin...

An RDL STA-1 (or STA2) is my goto for this kind of thing. Either will drive a set of headphones at low levels directly OR cleanly interface to a computer or audio amp. A DA is another option as you mentioned but more expensive. A telephone buttset is also a common quick test set. A camera recording ...

n8rat wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2019 9:53 am

Anyone remember WW-1 firing the EOM during the Super Bowl pre-game a few years ago? What a cluster **** that was!

I bet that went over like a "wardrobe malfunction"...

Is N8RAT your ham call?

There is a document that covers this from the RDS Forum. It is old, but still relevant: http://www.rds.org.uk/2010/pdf/R09_048_6_no%20pw_57.pdf . The important bits are highlighted on page 4. Page 40 of the NRSC guidelines also has some information on page 40: https://www.nrscstandards.org/standard...

I didn't think there was a way to make the PS "scroll" as the RT messages do. Like Kevin says, the PS text is actually static, it just changes every few seconds. I haven't seen too many car radios (if any) that will display actual scrolling RT messages, although most of them seem to work OK with "d...

The PS was always designed to be static in RDS, so scrolling it will give unpredictable results. Here in the UK, PS scrolling is not permitted. RadioText is the correct way to transmit dynamic text. Certainly in Europe, RT is increasingly displayed on car radios. I have turned off the PS scrolling ...