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Juggling the Fun
It is just crazy lately. I received a nice call today in regards to my comments on the Harris Flexstar. Thanks for that. I’m also busy with Nautel working out some little bugs with the NV20’s. These were to be expected as they are new products and will exhibit some strangeness. And that AM tower build, that is almost done though there are some details for the final city approval.
I am expecting my first software upgrade to the NV’s. This is necessary as we are experiencing an interesting little problem that may be commercial power related of which the NV’s are sensitive. Our Z10’s were also sensitive to something, but now it seems more apparent that a little phase brown-out situation may be occurring.
Overall I am quite please with the new transmitters, so these minor little things do not bother me. I feed information to Nautel and they are very receptive of the input. Daysequerra on the other hand….
Whomever decided that a shunt feed for an AM tower of odd-ball height is on drugs. Poor match that was closely matched shows signs of being unstable with some weather we are getting here. High VSWR that is random. A head-scratcher to say the least, but still annoying. It is a similar unstable thing our old tower exhibited in weather. Bad connections of the skirts? Poor design on how the skirts are installed. Rigidity of the skirts or lack thereof. Who knows.
All in all it is interesting, but very busy.
Cheers!
What’s Happening
I’ve done a number of posts on the Nautel NV20. What else is going on? Well, we are rebuilding our AM tower that “broke” in half 4 years ago. It is now at 445 feet. We intend to move the diplexed AM stations to the new tower this coming Tuesday. Hopefully we will match well. We are using the existing ATUs for this move. Insurance would not pay for the complete replacement. Go figure.
As you know we install our PPM equipment. This is a completed project included our Internet streams. We are using the Roku Soundbridge for our monitoring source to the PPM monitor. It works well. I have also given each station a selection on the console to monitor this feed, too. Nice what I can do quickly with the SAS system.
One morning show talent has moved out of state, again. Still part of the show we create a studio for her. Our feed back to the station is using a Tieline iMixG3 using IP. We’ve done it before and will do it again. I make sure we are ready for Monday tomorrow.
Hope you all have a Happy New Year. I hope we make it fine during this slow economic times. I will have some comments on the FCC and their weak backbones and the liberals that will try to ruin the industry. I still have thoughts on how greed has attempted to ruin the industry, too. We’ll see how it all pans out!
Tech Notes from the Field 