[BC] New Years Resolutions, or a tale in two acts.

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/6/2006 10:42:14 AM Central Standard Time,  
tpt at eurekanet.com writes:

P.S. In  case you are wondering why the remote control happened to be that   
handy to the control console, we used to have  remote meters in the  old  
live programming days, since the transmitter is in it's own  little  
building.  Just as easy to put the Sine in the studio  building since we  
already had a multi-wire control cable strung into  the control room from  
the transmitter  building.





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The Sine Systems remote control is a fina piece of gear,  they also  have the 
remote audio switcher that allows you to do telephone remote using your  
touchtone phone.  The tones are cut by a built-in audio delay.  A one  man 
operatiion can call in to the control panel, enter the pass word,  hit  the right num
ber for "Next break",  listen on the line for the end of  programming and push 
the button and be on the air live.  do the 60 second  spot over the phone and 
when finished touch another key and step the automation  to the next event.  
I know several folks that use them with high school  football games.
 
Also the remote RFC-1B is very economical,  I know several large  market 
stations with permanent remote controls that have a Sine System parallel  to allow 
the engineers to dial into the studio to control or reset the  transmitter.
 
I also have another station that moved to a new tower but still owned the  
old tower.  The installed an RFC-1B at the old site to monitor the tower  
lights.  It calls the radio station every night when the old tower lights  come on 
so it can be logged.  It also calls whenever anyone enters the  building,  it 
has a smoke alarm call out.
 
Creative bunch all these broadcast engineers.
 
Dave Hultsman