[BC] STL transmitters

[steve at theengineeringbureau.com]

Have you tried to order a broadcast loop recently?  Between a numbskull
owner that didn't know how to order the thing and the equally spaced-out CSR
with AT&T and a technical guy in charge that didn't understand what the
station really wanted/needed and a mis-engineered line, I thought we were
lucky to get anything between the studio and transmitter in Reno.  The only
guy that had a clue was the transmitter-end installer who managed to get the
right people to reengineer the loop twice.  This was in Reno.

Did I mention that it was two or three weeks late?

-----Original Message-----

 From: Broadcast List USER

Have you actually looked at a T-1?

Very often they are very inexpensive in the same rate center.

If not, consider two dry pairs, and treat them as a T-1.  It may be  
possible to condition them yourself and make them work.

Better yet, get dry pairs, and condition them yourself and use them as  
broadcast loops.  This isn't hard for fairly short hops.

OH, and maybe the phone company will provide you with broadcast  
loops.  Maybe not, today.

--chip

On Jan 31, 2010, at 10:54 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 14
> From: Mark Earle <mearle at mearle.com>
>
> wmroradio at bellsouth.net wrote:
>> Mark,
>>   Do you not have any Verizon Service at your TX Site?  I was just  
>> thinking you could use Verizon's Internet Service until you found a  
>> STL. I don't know how reliable
> We have Verizon dial tone. Using many modems, the best that can  
> offer is
> 14.4-21.1. It is too far for any Internet - DSL, etc. Verizon took  
> over
> GTE - and GTE never was one to maintain anything!
>
> This leaves satellite or T1. Or Moseley LanLink, but all of those are
> beyond the budget.