[BC] Need STL

[Robert Meuser]

2 miles?  Small station?  put in a WIFI link and a Barix. You will get 
out with a lot less expense than an STL and will have it on air faster.  
If you want something licensed, it will still buy you some time to get 
the real deal in place.

R

Scott Cason wrote:

>Reliability!  The station took a direct lightning hit Thursday.  Blew
>one of the balls off of the ball gap at the base of the tower!  Took out
>the fuse in the processor and took out the amplifiers in the Nautel
>J1000 transmitter.  We didn't know it took out the phone loop amp until
>after I got the transmitter back up and going and there was no audio.
>Called Windstream's repair center and they said they didn't make it a
>"policy" to send out repair crews for things like this on the weekends.
>Needless to say, as soon as I can find a good, reliable STL pair,
>Windstream will NOT be getting the $250 a month we pay for this loop
>anymore.  The studio and transmitter are two miles apart.  I can put a
>wet noodle out the window and get a link.  It's a ND station.  Little
>class C on 1450 kc.  
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>Before I left, we plugged a CD player into the processor.  The Man in
>Black never sounded so good.  That's got me wondering about the
>"quality" of the loop we have, also.
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>I'm still stunned over the response of the phone company about this.  I
>have several other stories about this particular Windstream office if
>anyone's interested.
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>>>Why do you need to get off the loop?  Cost?  Reliability?
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>If the loop is local (same CO end to end), it can't be more than 
>$200/mo.  That's a LOT of months to pay for a complete STL system.  And 
>many many more if the station is an AM DA and you need to mount the RX
>dish 
>on one of the active towers..read..partial proof.
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>Scott Cason
>LaGrange Communications
>www.lagrange-com.com
>(877)265-9773
>(502)213-0024
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