[BC] Re: No more remotes

[Chris Oradat]

Luckily, Dallas is a mostly flat city.  All remotes were supposed to be on
my books by 1 week out (most were in a month out because we were that busy),
and we just knew what areas were good.  If we didn't, then usually we could
send a tech out to do a shot check.  Our receive sites were at Cedar Hill
(2), just north of downtown (3), Grapevine (2), Van Alystine, and Mountain
Springs.  There were several times I went back to the station and said we
couldn't do the show because of not enough signal; about half the time the
client agreed to an ISDN.  Those who didn't either changed locations, or
didn't get a remote.

POTS codecs were NOT allowed on the air for a long-form broadcast (more than
call-ins)

--
Chris Oradat


-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Dan Kelley
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:42 PM
To: 'Broadcasters' Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [BC] Re: No more remotes

Chris:

What was your procedure to determine link requirements ahead
of broadcast?

-dan in lansing
 http://classicrockfm.blogspot.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:broadcast-
> bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Chris Oradat
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:37 PM
> To: 'Broadcasters' Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: [BC] Re: No more remotes
> 
> We had DBX Type 2 encoding on all marti shots.  That, along with the
> occasional 100W shot really helped.  Trucks had dual 10 db antennas,
> studio
> had 13 db antennas, and tower sites had 15' omni poles (dunno actual
> gain).
> No show was put on the air with less than '100%', about 100 mV.  In a
> couple
> of instances, we wound up two hopping (eight freqs helped) or running the
> signal through an EQ to make it sound better (not much you can do about
> the
> hiss)
> 
> --
> Chris Oradat


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