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title: TWiRT 312 - Rx for TX with Mike Patton | Telos Alliance
description: What conditions bring radio transmitters to an early demise?  What items does a professional transmitter restoration job include?
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## TWiRT 312 - Rx for TX with Mike Patton | Telos Alliance

By [The Telos Alliance Team](https://blogs.telosalliance.com/author/telos-alliance-team) on Jul 15, 2016 1:00:00 PM

# ![TWIRT312.png](https://blogs.telosalliance.com/hs-fs/hubfs/TWIRT312.png?width=320&name=TWIRT312.png "TWIRT312.png")TWiRT 312 - Rx for TX with Mike Patton

What conditions bring radio transmitters to an early demise?  What items does a professional transmitter restoration job include?  And what technologies are worth maintaining versus those no longer appropriate for daily use?  Michael Patton helps radio station owners face these and other questions about keeping their stations on the air and viable.

**Guest: **[Michael Patton, Owner - Michael Patton & Associates](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-patton-451ba116)

**Hosts:  **Chris Tobin, [IP-Solutionist](mailto:support@ipcodecs.com)  and [Kirk Harnack](http://about.me/kirkharnack), [The Telos Alliance](https://www.telosalliance.com/), [Delta Radio](http://www.deltaradio.net/), & [South Seas Broadcasting](http://www.southseasbroadcasting.com/)

 

 

**Links from the show: **

[Michael Patton & Associates Transmitter Repairs](http://michaelpatton.com/transmitters/)

Nautel - Recommendations for Transmitter Site Preparation

[Lightning Strike Map](https://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzortung/america/index.php?lang=en)

Blitzortung Lightning Dynamic Map

[Industrial Risk Insurers’ Pre-Emergency Planning Guide](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B40lhS9746LcNGVCTElZRjd5ZjQ/view?usp=sharing)

 

**Watch the Video!**

 

Download direct: [https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp4/archive.org/download/TWIRT312/TWIRT312\_HD.mp4](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp4/archive.org/download/TWIRT312/TWIRT312_HD.mp4)

 

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