Station Pics
Any one willing to share there pics of there station or studio..
I am in the process of moving my studio into my "man room" AKA the "Byte Bar"
The room contians my beer and wine making items, my kegerator, wine storage rack and my MAME arcade machine.. This will be converted to my manroom /studio and I will segrigate all my studio equipment from my computer room stuff where it resides now in in its temparary location..
So im planning this move and once i get my new antenna made and before my station goes public..meaning I advertise it to the community. I will be moving into the new studio.. The advantage of this studio is its right off the foyer to the house so i can have guests in the studio and not havethem walking all over the house to get to the studio.. ANd for me it will provide more room,as right now my studio is a 4 foot b 2 foot part of my desk in the computer room.
So photos diagrams and descriptions etc would be great... i think the photos would make a very interesting thread.. i suspect some people are just broadcasting in from ther pc and others are broadcasting in a dedicated studio with pro quality equipment and setups.. i think the varity would be great to see.. a added bonus would be if you broadcast over the net to post a link so we can see what the station looks like while we listen 🙂
Large or small neet or just tossed together, I think the diversity of studios would be great to see here.
Jason
Jason,
I have a picture of my studio that I can email to anyone that wants to see it. It's not hosted on a site so I don't know how to post it here.
The studio contains turntables, 2 Spotmaster cart machines, CD players,
cassette decks and a reel-to-reel and now a computer for streaming.
You can email me at [email protected].
The streaming link is www.live365.com/stations/alanmccall
Kindest regards,
radioboy
Alan
send pic to [email protected] and i'll host it on my webspace and that goes for anyone needing pic hosting for station/studio pic's only. JPG only please limit size to 100kb
Thanks,
Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis
kc8gpd, Nice of you to offer pic space 🙂
My website is under [b:7889f719df]heavy[/b:7889f719df] construction but you can check it here.
"removed 11/28
Just got everything going in the last month. Wanted to have something on the air before Halloween. Here's a few pictures of the station's "temporary studio" a short list of the equipment shown in the picture.
hey Ebach- I wanna roll back a little and go off topic: The MAME machine - I bought the X Arcade 2 player controller in hopes of building a mame system, i'm almost down to just saying "screw it" and buying the gamecube adapter, a gamecube, and the midway classics.
I've had zero luck gettin the controller to work right. What did you use when you built yours?
If you wanna take this offline, shoot over an email to rick at root dot sh
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Ipam, Nice pics.. what kind of speakers are those?
MLR.. as for the mame machine, I use a "i-pac" controller, its usb circiut board manly designed for MAME.. it has screw down conectors for your buttons and joysticks, i bought my buttonsand joysticks of of ebay.. mounted them in a piece of plywood for the controlboard.. my setup is 2 players with 6 buttons each...
My setup is a 1.4 athlon board, with a ATI vide card with TV out to a 27" TV.. and i made a base that resembles a arcade machine, I have not gotten around to making the top part with the lighted marque.. But it works great and gives that real arcade feel... Having a few thousand games on hand makes entertaining very easy, i fire up the machine befor ethe party and when people see it they naturaly ask about it and then i show them all thegames on it.. there hooked.. we usually congrigate around and chat whileothers play a game then we swith around.. makes a great conversatio starter and great way for people to interact and share there arcade memories.. Every one on tehe face of the planet has played some arcade games. so it makes a great mixer type activity.. USuslly by the end of the nigh they forget about the machine and are just haveing a blast chatting etc..
My machine run windows xp with MAME 32.. I would have to say the project is fairly involved if you do everything your self but as anything if you do it your self you get what you want, you have satisfaction in building it and you learn some skills by doing it.. its a great project..
I have always wated to build a miniture mame machine like those little single game arcade machines.. they were about 10" high and has frogger pack man and other early games.. they looked like a small arcade machine with the base chopped of.. i figured it would be a cool thing for the desk at work.. a 10" high arcade machine with a couple thousand games on it 🙂
Jason
Ipam, Nice pics.. what kind of speakers are those?
Made me check. They are the BOSE 4001 .
Pictures of my studios are below...for info on the equipment, I can post it too. The SSTRAN transmitter is not shown and I have an FM transmitter, rack mounted that is not shown also.... My daughter is programming our shows in the picture... we don't have a banner for our station yet.
Radiopilot 😀
Thanks to Rev. Chrysafis, my pic is now hosted.
I've placed a link to it on my station's website at
The pic is of the main control room.
Also shown: UREI peak limiter and CBS Volumax on left of the
left side turntable.
EVERYTHING works, even the 5-deck Spotmaster (that only has 4 decks in it now..previous owner took the bottom one out!)
Rev. Robert..thank you again!
Also shown: UREI peak limiter and CBS Volumax on left of the
left side turntable.EVERYTHING works, even the 5-deck Spotmaster (that only has 4 decks in it now..previous owner took the bottom one out!)!
Some awesome radio history there. Hard to beat the sound of the CBS Volumax.
Last 3-decker I worked with, don't remember who made it, think it was a "Gates", was wired "hot" so that the motor was always running. The owner of the station was too cheap to replace one of the "cart present" micro switches. Ran for more then 6 years 24/7 like that. Made the console desk vibrate but never really made any noticible noise.
A power surge finally knocked out the audio on it. We replaced it with 3 single cart BE units.
It was heavy and obviously always hot near the bottom. Wish I'd got to it before they canned it. Would have been great to get running [u:2c7d4b5b24]right[/u:2c7d4b5b24] again.
Ebacherville: Well, now you have resparked my need to get the mame box running. I went to home depot tonight and bought all the stuff needed to build the full-size upright cabinet.
I have a couple of Bose speakers and a 40 watt RS amp I'm going to use, and a 27" TV for the monitor.
I'll have to dig to see if I still have the vid card witht he tv out, if not, I'll snag one off ebay. I went ahead and bought the USB adapter from X-Arcade for my console, and set aside a 3.2GHz HT P4 computer I had built when the HT 3.2's were brandy new..
My wife says "thanks....alot..." (very dry tone...)...
But my 8 yr old is getting excited again.
MLR,
That 3.4 should be awsome, you should be able to run some of the really mew games like cruising USA on that.. thats a sweet machine for a mame rig.. DOnt forget to get allthe NES SNES SEGA and other emulators for you machine.. Heck with that machine in there you should be able to run all the N64 games also..
Take your time but don't dont do the same thing i did.. got half done and hooked it all up for a "test run" its totaly playable but no paint on it.. I spend to much time playing it and still havent painted it.. I love MAME.. Al my freinds love it also.. we have xbox parties with 8 players at once.. and inbetween rounds we play MAME... kind of funny going from a 8 foot screen ona current gen machine to a old 1985 arcade emulation and it still jsut as much fun...
Any way 1 thing i would do if i did it over again would be a 4 way joystick for those old classics like pacman.. 8 way sucks on pacman.. that may be my next upgreade to my cabinet.
OK back to radio...
Love the studio pics.. whom ever that gal is in the photo, she it to cute for radio .. she needs a tv show 🙂
AS for the other studio, that is some nice older equipment you got there.. Sweet setups.. I have a complex now. Now i must build my antenna and then redo my studio....... Make it actually lok like a studio instead of a work bench.
Keep posting them Pics!
Jason
I don't have a studio yet; just my Linux workstation connected to the transmitter.
You can view my station installation online at http://robinvalley.org/about-photos.shtml
Regards,
Scott