Free Talk Live with Ian and Mark airs daily on over 100 stations including KDX and about once a day a caller will seem very normal until they suddenly spring a banned word and get chopped-off at the delay.
The internet version is not dumped, so we get to hear the whole thing plus the usual host comment about why certain words can't be said on licensed radio.
There's probably a name for these people like "obscenity trolls" or some such.
KDX is probably sticking its neck out because I've stopped censoring the banned words because so many otherwise good programs from the internet have so-called "adult language".
I never have used vulgar talk either personally or professionally with some exceptions that I later deny.
Even though the Evintide I have serves the purpose fine.. If I had the spare $$, I'd consider taking a chance on this one which is much nicer and a more capable, it's in Australia, shipping to U.S. about $72, buy it now for $150 (U.S.) - But something is wrong with it..
"The unit powers and appears to work well. However, after 10 minutes of use, the unit reboots itself for some unknown reason. It could be a simple fix for those in the industry."
I have no idea.. The seller is just selling a lot of misc surplus items. Maybe it's worth looking in the manual, it might be nothing but a setting -- I don't know, but it sure is a premium model: https://www.eventideaudio.com/products/rackmount/profanity-delay-dump-button/bd500 Grand total about $225 buy it now on ebay, at the moment it has 3 and half days to go http://www.ebay.com/itm/Eventide-BD500-Broadcast-Delay-Profanity-Delay-BD-500-For-Parts-or-Repair-/401258172681
Centinel --- I dont know if you're still asking about technical aspects, but these days broadcast delay is technically achieved with a box that digitizes an incoming signal, then rolls it through a ton of RAM until it reaches the other end. If someone utters a poopy word, the operator hits a DUMP button which "zeroes out" whatever is passing thru the RAM at that moment and jumps right to real-time audio. The delay is slowly built back up until it has reached a "safe" period.
The reason Seven Seconds became the defacto delay standard years ago is because of the physical distance between the tape machines and the tape speed. It took that long for the tape to pass from the head cluster of the first machine to the pickup head of the second. Truth is, you can now use as much or as little delay as you desire. Word has it that syndicated conservative talk host Laura Ingraham uses 30 seconds worth ... just in case.
If you have a friend who is a coding maniac, it is possible to use modern LAN routers as "free" delay units -- assuming you are running AoIP in your system. But that's going to require a lot of research. And if that is possible, then ARSE just became the worst bargain on the market.
There are plenty of delay boxes - used and new - out there. The Airtools box from Symetrix is very good, but power supplies can be a stinker to find, and they'll be the first component to go bad. The Symetrix 610 is probably the best value out there. Eventide wrote the book on delay systems, but back in the mid-90s they made one that just used to mute for five seconds and fire off some filler material on a cart machine (yep). The reboot issue can typically be traced to a voltage regulator. Either add more cooling to it or replace it outright.
I've found most participants of a Part 15er call-in show are polite, and tow the line when told ahead of time not to be a jerk. You may not need a delay, but that's your call. Good luck.
Freely available software can be used to establish a delay.
For example, using a Shoutcast Legacy 1 Server set to Non-Public with Listener Count "1" and using VLC Player to internally access this digital stream and routing the audio to the radio transmitter delays of a few seconds to a minute can be achieved by manipulating the stream Rate.
Experimentation can find other software combinations to do the same thing.
No virtual cable. The soundcard allows two separate audio streams.
My setup is: Soundcard front audio out feeds one stereo channel input of the external audio mixer. Anything playing from that soundcard output (Zara program) is controlled by that channel level control.
That signal plus any other channel of the mixer (CD player, microphones, aux send for phone patch) is mixed down and fed into the soundcard front audio line input.
The "Delay" app is set to use the soundcard front audio line input as its audio source.
The "Delay" app output is sent to the soundcard 2nd audio output at the rear line output. That audio is fed to the Barix Instreamer STL.
Sending the front audio line out to the mixer stereo channel input allows me to send any app playing audio to the mixer (Zara, Skype, Winamp, etc.).
Since there are two separate audio outputs there is no feedback due to looping.
Time permitting I will make a quickie one-handed video on the setup.
MRAM1500 said: "Time permitting I will make a quickie one-handed video on the setup."
As a veteren video producer I can tell you that if you aim the camera into a row of mirrors you will have enough hands and cameras to do a very professional job.
That was spelled out nicely Mram