[BC] Re: Copper program Loops

[ACN]

Steve. what station in Seattle?

Tom
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Newman" <shnewman at alaweb.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Re: Copper program Loops


> GOOD! Give me a good analog solution any day Bob. Digital is just not 
> forgiving. I guess, by default, I'm part of your club now. :)
> ....and proud of it. In a post a few months ago I spoke about the station 
> I put together with a friend. We had NO iron until we hit the 111-C. The 
> chief at the "big" station in town wondered why we were the best sounding 
> AM station in Seattle. I told him he how I setup the station and that he 
> was an iron factory BUT don't worry about the 111-C. It's invisible. 
> Amazing transformer.
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Newman
> Steve Walker Productions
> Opp, Alabama
>
>
>> Jeff, there's nothing "old fart" about this approach either. No need to 
>> be
>> paranoid. Just because it isn't a digital solution doesn't mean it won't
>> work! When I left WLTW in 1997 they were still using equalized loops to 
>> the
>> Empire State Building and were driven by BDI line drivers putting +10 dBm 
>> on
>> the lines. These amps were capable of +30 dBm so there was still 20 dB of
>> headroom. We were able to achieve 90 dB of dynamic range from the console
>> right to the input of the processor at the transmitter site. Come to 
>> think
>> of it, on my last visit down there about six months ago I think I saw 
>> that
>> chassis in the rack!
>>
>> Sorry for the long winded post but this is a topic that I spent a lot of
>> time on when I was an "old fart" station engineer! Happy Holiday!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bob Tarsio
>> President
>
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