From BillyBurg

Spare —

Bag all that paid-for support.

You can post free support questions to the group at

rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org

Me neither, but if you haven’t checked out Rivendell as a potential automation system for your station, you really need to.  It is totally free, it runs under Linux which is also free, it does voicetracking and dayparting and is just the cat’s ass. As a bonus, it works on inexpensive second-hand 64-bit hardware you probably already own.

There is…[Read more]

One of the towns shown on TV getting hit the worst is New Bern, North Carolina. That is where the WHEATSTONE company is; the manufacturer of high-end broadcast consoles, AoIP audio systems and processors.

One of the reasons they moved out of Syracuse NY is because the weather up there sucked.

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Carl said, “…it does allow ‘adding distortion’ which is something to have even if there’s no use for it.”

Yeah, still not interested. I’ve spent the last 18 years trying to remove distortion from my signal path.

In the interests of technical accuracy, the Kerwax studio/company is pushing this as a two-channel preamp, based on the 24-channel tube mixer installed at their studio. With only two channels, it is definitely not being marketed as a mixer. You might tack it in the signal chain between the mixer output and the airchain processor if you want to…[Read more]

Noble idea, but impractical.

Given the 10 kHz spacing on the medium wave broadcast band, we would still have a very choked frequency range on our signals. The noise would indeed be nearly entirely eliminated, but there’s not enough room for a stereo signal, much less a signal with much in the way of highs.

Dont get me started on the public…[Read more]

Carl asked: “Since there’s already a parade every year, why doesn’t Trump just invite himself to that one instead of holding a separate parade?”

Because this one is about veterans — alive and dead — and their service to America, not about how many tanks we can roll down Pennsylvania Ave without buckling the pavement.  New Yorkers have know…[Read more]

Carl, you’ve got my curiosity aroused. How technically were you going to do the broadcast from Washington DC to your community? Your method might be something that would interest all of us.

If you want some event in the nation’s capital to broadcast, I would consider the National Memorial Day Parade held every May. It’s grandly patriotic (minus…[Read more]

Got to grudgingly hand it to the Apple folks … they certainly did not make it simple for hackers.

The company could have directed an analog output to the Lightning connector, making it a simple matter for someone to solder up a suitable adapter. But no, the Apple designers put the D-to-A converter inside the plug. That obligates you to buy…[Read more]

Game, can you sketch that circuit and post the image? Not everyone is going to intuitively know what a “bridging circuit” is.

From Carl:

But in over ten years of observation I have never heard about such a station.

And I doubt you will ever again. While I applaud your motives, the world (and technology) has evolved to the point where one’s audience will click their phones first for essential information on actual dangers, or to participate in any civil disobedience.…[Read more]

Who left the bra on top of the 2nd speaker from the left?

Free to view via the Internet, just not free to copy and repost. As the copyright holders, the author and publisher need to retain some degree of control over where and how their work is distributed.

I have had technical articles published here and there over the years and I know what it is like for this to happen. Thank you JPJ, for standing up…[Read more]

Stats? Probably not.  But if you have a week to kill, and a friend who works in Federal Court record-keeping, you can dig as deep as you need to.

Anytime anyone here or across the street wants to commit to a new challenge with a new set of refined rules, I’ll happily enjoin the effort as an educated, skilled, experienced and impartial participant.  And I heartily encourage all manufacturers to participate as well.

Until then, the shootout stands as the de facto document. Which says the…[Read more]

How are you going to collect $144K from someone that doesn’t have $144K?

You won’t … so you go after everything else: Property, 10-15% of their gross pay, assets, Social Security checks, any inheritance left to them, retirement accounts — there is plenty to tap, not just now but for years to come.

Sweet dreams.

Source: FederalPrisonTalk.Com

First-hand, no. But you may already know it placed as first-runner-up in an AM Transmitter “shoot-out” (behind the Rangemaster AM1000) on another low-power radio site. So it is a formidable unit.

The shootout has suffered considerable derision by some fellow Part15 members since it was published. As I see it, until which time another technically…[Read more]

Keith, synching distant transmitters to air on the same frequency is going to be problematic, especially if the signals overlap. The Barix box is going to introduce some latency which will cause the audio to drift to the point where its going to sound like a Memphis-style slap echo.

A few years ago, one poster suggested putting a signal up on two…[Read more]

The only configuration you can do with this mixer is one mic (or mono line-level signal) each on Channel 1 and 2; and the combined channel 3 & 4 input is good only for a stereo source, such as your Zara connection.

The USB socket is not a bidirectional bus to connect to a computer, but appears to be an internal player input that receives a…[Read more]

Hello Keith.

I do not have any tech advice for you but I would heartily encourage you to be LIVE as much and as often as possible. I realize that is a huge time-suck, but putting up a signal and then plugging the transmitter directly into a computer makes us no better than the sanitized commercial stations we are trying to combat.

If you cant be…[Read more]