[BC] Emergency studio

[Wade Giddens]

   At  the  station  I  work for, we have discussed having a backup audio
   source  at  the FM transmitter site, in case of disaster at the studio
   building.   The  transmitter  building has room for a PC, a tiny mixer
   board  and  a  microphone.   It  would  be  better  than  nothing in a
   disaster.   To  do this, we would need a processor at the transmitter.
   When  I asked one engineer about the possibility of moving the Optimod
   from  the studio to the transmitter, he reacted like it was an idiotic
   idea.   We  have  an  Optimod  2200 at the studio, with digital output
   going  to  a  Harris CD Link STL.  At the transmitter end, the CD Link
   goes  into  a  Harris  Platinum  Z  transmitter  with  the Digit CD FM
   exciter.    What  do  you  think? Would  having  the  Optimod  at  the
   transmitter  be  a  good  idea  or  a bad idea?  Would having a backup
   processor  at  the transmitter be a better idea?   Would there need to
   be  some  sort  of  limiter  at  the  studio  prior to the STL, in the
   position  where  the  Optimod  is  now?  I would think that having the
   Optimod  at  the  transmitter  would  make  using  a Marti as a backup
   emergency  STL  easier to set up.  What about EAS in a case like this?
   The EAS is at the main studio, not at the transmitter.