IP STLs: Troubleshooting Interference

Just down from a New York skyscraper rooftop, Chris Tobin talks us through troubleshooting RF interference to to some legacy 5.8 GHz radios. And Kirk Harnack shows off a new airFiber IP radio, fresh from configuration and ready for the tower.

Topics: IP Technology

Vintage Audio: Radio Down on the Farm

This episode of Found in the Attic features a 1940 tabletop radio with a twist. This Philco model 40-90 is a farm radio. Although they were an important part of radio history, these radios are largely forgotten today.

When radio came on the scene in the 1920s, it was the first mass media. It brought Americans together as never before. Suddenly, geographic boundaries didn't matter. Once the sun went down, clear channel AM radio stations sent their signals coast to coast.

AES67 Breaks Out at ISE 2016

Typically, when you think of a trade show in Amsterdam, you probably think IBC. Certainly the late-summer show is an important convention, but one geared specifically to broadcasters. Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), on the other hand, is aimed at the larger international Audio Video industry, with an emphasis on A/V technologies for live performance settings and business applications – anything from boardroom videoconference systems to the latest speakers for live venues.

AoIP Planning Tips with Stephen Poole

We compare two different brands of AoIP mixing and routing systems and find - they’re pretty similar in terms of network planning and wiring. Stephen Poole of Crawford Broadcasting joins Chris Tobin and Kirk Harnack, looking at Wheatnet and Livewire+. Plus we’re discussing options for secure remote access.

Adventures in Big Sky Country

Ron Huckeby is a Contract Engineer for Your Network of Praise, a Christian radio network of roughly 50 stations and translators across Big Sky Country, operating in four states and two Canadian provinces. Along with YNOP, Ron, who is based out of Butte, Montana, also serves as engineer for several other broadcast operations, both commercial and non-commercial, across the Treasure State and beyond.

To Russia with Egor Tyagunov

Egor Tyagunov has been around high-tech all his life.  Much of his childhood was spent living near Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Now in Riga, Latvia - another technology center - Egor works with radio and TV broadcasters in Eastern Europe, Russia, and other CIS countries, demonstrating best audio engineering practices on behalf of The Telos Alliance. 

Topics: Broadcast Engineering

AoIP in a Nutshell

If you travel to Fremont, Nebraska and tour the studios of Walnut Radio's KHUB 1340 AM and KFMT 105.5 FM, you won't see very much equipment; just a console, three computer screens, and a few microphones in each room. But that's a good thing. Chief Engineer Tom Russell designed it that way for several reasons. “It gives the studios a clean look, it eliminates fan noise and is just easier for our operators to work in.” He adds that all the stations' programming comes from automation, voice tracking, or live announcements.

Zeno and KPISS with Sheri Barclay

Radio production and distribution in its newest forms is the world of Sheri Barclay.  She’s a producer and test engineer at Zeno Radio. Her latest project there, Zeno Live, connects hosts and listeners like never before. Plus Sheri reveals the struggles building her own Internet station that has a “storefront” location.

Vintage Audio: Broadcast Electronics 500

An earlier installment of Found in the Attic looked at the ATC/Collins P-190 cart machine, which was the first commercially available tape cartridge deck, and the hit of the show at NAB '59. Around that time, Ross Beville, Chief Engineer of WWDC in Washington, DC had the same idea, and also began to develop tape cartridge machines. He apparently did not know about the work of ATC's Bailey and Jenkins until NAB '59. In June of 1959, Beville founded Broadcast Electronics in Silver Springs, MD, to manufacture Spotmaster cart machines. The first production runs were built in the station's garage.

The Xcuse Box with Dick Debartolo

The Giz Wiz, Dick Debartolo, admits he’s no engineer. But he does have an eye - and ear - for fascinating devices and products. Some are useful - others, not so much. MAD magazine’s maddest writer joins Chris Tobin and me, Kirk Harnack, to ooh, ahh, and snicker at the some gizmos he found at CES.