[EAS] General Question: Can't it be a software solution?

[Sam Roffe]

I don't get why side chaining a EAS like Tom has done is a bad idea?    More than one station has been doing this successfully for years.  There are reasons for doing this.

If you run AES out to the STL, with the old sage, there was no way to insert it into the program chain with out D to A and A to D converters.  In a digital TDM router system such as Logitek, they've effectively and reliably have side chained the EAS box for years, and hard coded a trigger so that every time the box would send an alert a relay closure  would trigger the command to re route the audio to the program out to STL every time.   The lousy power supply was less reliable on the units that the side chaining is. <grin>

With the new Sage Digital ENDEC, you now have both AES and Analog audio, so side chaining is unnecessary.  But now we have AoIP to deal with until Sage makes their boxes LiveWire compatible. <grin> 

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Ira Wilner <iwilner at monadnockradiogroup.com> wrote:
>I agree with Lowell.
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>So, why jump
>through hoops, complicate your air chain and thus expose it to more single
>points of failure?

>And BTW, the Endec Digital for CAP is 100% compatible with existing MSRP's.

>--Ira

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
>Behalf Of Lowell Kiesow

>That's fine, but what device controls the switchers?  The EAS box.

>On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Tom Taggart <tpt at literock93r.com> wrote:
>>I haven't run the program line through the EAS box in years.
>> The box triggers a pair of Broadcast Tools switchers --which then
>>switch the program lines.

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Sam Roffe