[BC] Remote Control Access via Internet

[Robert Meuser]

Can you get DJB to respond to a GPI closure? If so you are half way 
home. You just need to sense the parameters you need to alarm.

R


Bailey, Scott wrote:

>I have Verizon, so I think the same applies here as well.
>
>But this is what I'm thinking Chris, why spend the money on a Burk
>ARC-16, when my automation system can do this. I'm using Digital Juke
>Box, and Jim Barcus has a program that can send you an email if
>something goes wrong with any part of DJB or if an event didn't occur.
>
>Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
>[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Chris Oradat
>Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:59 AM
>To: 'Broadcasters' Mailing List'
>Subject: RE: [BC] Remote Control Access via Internet
>
>Most remote controls that allow TCP/IP connections have a provision for
>e-mailing alerts.  If you can adjust what is sent out, that message can
>be
>sent to a cell phone.  It just requires knowing the e-mail address of
>the
>phone.  For at least two providers (Cingular, T-Mobile), this is
>included
>with text messaging.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
>[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Glen Kippel
>Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:52 AM
>To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [BC] Remote Control Access via Internet
>
>You will need to have some way of having it contact you if something
>falls
>out of tolerance.  How you do this is up to you, and if you get
>inspected,
>be prepared to show how/that it works.  I don't know about internet,
>having
>used only dialup and/or SCA remote control, but at my previous station I
>had
>the ARC-16 call if the output power fell below 90% (this could be
>optional),
>rose above 105% (this is not), and if the ModMinder (R) showed
>consistently
>over modulation.  Of course, we had other things that are not
>FCC-required,
>like if the AC power was off, the building temperature got above 95
>degrees,
>or we lost an STL -- stuff like that.  You do not have to remotely
>monitor
>plate voltage, plate current, etc. unless you want to.  It can be handy
>to
>know these things before you get to the transmitter site, but the FCC
>doesn't require it.
>
>On 2/21/07, Bailey, Scott <sbailey at nespower.com> wrote:
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>>Question to the brain trust:
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>>I've read over the rules of unattended operation, and I have a
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>question.
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>>Does a station have to have a dial up phone line installed at the
>>transmitter for remote control or can a station control it transmitter
>>by internet access only, and do away with the dial up phone line?
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>>My thoughts were, and a discussion with another engineer was, the last
>>update of the remote control rules was around 1995, almost 12 years
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>ago,
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>>before we had wide open internet access.  My studio is with the
>>transmitter, and I can access my studio automation with my pocket pc,
>>via Verizon Broadband Wireless, or even Wi-fi. My studio automation
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>can
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>>lower and raise power on my transmitter, and turn it off. I can access
>>my automation system via logmein.com at home and control the
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>transmitter
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>>as well.
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>>What are the thoughts you guys have on this subject?  Do we really
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>have
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>>to have a "dedicated" phone line at the transmitter, if I'm using that
>>line for DSL service and my pc controls the transmitter, and I have
>>constant access to it?
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