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The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource
... edited by Barry Mishkind - the Eclectic Engineer
The Virtual Lunch Gathering!
Each Thursday at 2 PM Eastern, 11 AM Pacific, we get together to
discuss topics of interest to broadcasters and learn things.
- The meeting is held using Zoom - to prevent Zoombombing the URL is not published on the web.
All Broadcasters are invited, just Click here to get an invite.
Upcoming Events:
- June 30th - Monitoring HD Radio - Ben Barber - Inonvonics
- July 7th - Jeff Welton
- July 14th - The Next Best Thing - Greg Dahl
- July 21st - FM Pylon and the FM Software.
- Some useful information. Just click here.
Recordings of our Lunch Gatherings are usually posted a day or so afterward on the Youtube theBDRnet channel.
We sure would encourage you to subscribe and click on the little "bell" to have notice when the latest videos are posted.
| TOPICS | ||||
| THE LATEST VIDEOS | ||||
| Getting the best out of Comrex BRIClink Codecs- Mike Freidman & Chris Crump - 6/16/22 | Video | |||
| Remote Control Hacks- Joe Flemming - 6/9/22 | Video | |||
| Getting Help in Difficult Times- - 6/9/22 | Video | |||
| Update on Nautel AUI and VX transmitters- Matt Herdon and Mike Woods - 6/2/22 | Video | |||
| DASDEC III and new features, including TTS- Bill Robertson - 5/26/22 | Video | |||
| Making sure your ground is ground- John Belk, Tom LaBarge - 5/19/22 | Video | |||
| Magnetic Light- Duncan Crane - 5/12/22 | Video | |||
| DASDEC-III and new EAS features- Bill Robertson - 4/21/22 | Video | |||
| The Solderless Studio- Ed Bukont - 3/31/22 | Video | |||
| AUDIO CONSOLES | ||||
| iQs - Kirk Harnack 9/23/21 | Video | |||
| Audio Consoles move from analog to digital - Tag Borland (Logitek) (12/3/20) | Video | |||
| AM TRANSMISSION | ||||
| Multiplexing AMs - Tom King - 1/28/22 | Video | |||
| Digital AM at WFAS - Conrad Trautmann 10/7/21 | Video | |||
| High Efficiency Broadband Antenna - Grady Moates (11/12/20) | Video | |||
| High Efficiency BroadBand Antenna with Grady Moates ( 4/30/20) | Video | |||
| Method of Moments - Ben Dawson & Stephen Lockwood (1/21/21) | Video | |||
| Digital AM Operations - Dave Kolesar (10/8/20) | Video | |||
| NRSC Measurements with Burt Weiner (5/28/20) | Video | |||
| AUDIO & VIDEO STREAMING | ||||
| StreamGuys - Robert Minnix (7/15/21) | Video | |||
| Handling Streaming Audio - Joh Kean and Corny Gould 10/28/21 | Video | |||
| HLS Audio - Greg Ogonowski - StreamS (3/18/21) | Video | |||
| Multi-Cam Systems - Mary Ann Seidler/Stan Walbert (9/10/20) | Video | |||
| Right Streaming Choices - Mike Erickson (Wireless Media) (7/9/20) | Video | |||
| RadioDJ - Greg Ogonowski (6/24/21) | Video | |||
| AUDIO PROCESSING | ||||
| The Audio Chameleon - Corny Gould/Mike "Catfish" Dosch - 3/10/22 | Video | |||
| Omnia 11 V4 and the Silvio Clipper - Frank Foti - 1/21/22 | Video | |||
| Audio Processing, Streaming, and Podcasts - Cornelius Gould (10/29/20) | Video | |||
| The XPN-AM Audio Processor - Bob Orban (7/16/20) | Video | |||
| Audio Processing vs Multipath - Frank Foti (Telos Alliance) (6/18/20) | Video | |||
| CODECS | ||||
| Solving the Problems of audio over IP- Tony Gervasi - 2/17/22 | Video | |||
| webRTC and Opal - Chris Crump - Comrex 10/14/21 | Video | |||
| APT MPX Links - Tony Peterle (3/11/21) | Video | |||
| The Tieline Gateway - Doug Ferber/Jacob Daniluck (2/11/21) | Video | |||
| CallMe IP codec family - Mike Dosch/Ian Prowse (2/25/21) | Video | |||
| Blade 4 - Jay Tyler (Wheatstone) (8/27/20) | Video | |||
| IP audio transport with Tony Gervasi (GatesAir) (5/21/20) | Video | |||
| CYBER SECURITY | ||||
| IT Security at the transmitter - Jeff Welton- 2/3/22 | Video | |||
| Cybersecurity - Wayne Pecena (8/26/21) | Video | |||
| Station IT Security with Fred Gleason (Paravel) (4/23/20) | Video | |||
| DIGITAL TRANSMISSION | ||||
| ATSC3- Dave Folsom - 4/14/22 | Video | |||
| Digital AM at WFAS - Conrad Trautmann 10/7/21 | Video | |||
| Digital AM Operations - Dave Kolesar (10/8/20) | Video | |||
| EAS | ||||
| DASDEC-III and new EAS features- Bill Robertson - 4/21/22 | Video | |||
| DASDEC-III and new EAS features- Bill Robertson - 4/21/22 | Video | |||
| Reviewing the NPT (8/12/21) | Video | |||
| EAS for the NPT (7/22/21) | Video | |||
| A Chat with the FEMA - Mark Lucero (4/29/21) | Video | |||
| NWS Partical County Activations - Schott, Berc, Hart (4/22/21) | Video | |||
| FEMA uses IPAWS to link non-weather alerts to NWR - Ed Czarnecki (9/17/20) | Video | |||
| FCC ISSUES | ||||
| Inside the ABIP - Mike Langner (8/19/21) | Video | |||
| FCC Exposure Rules - Raj Mathur (5/27/21) | Video | |||
| ABIP and you - Ken Benner (9/17/20) | Video | |||
| FM ANTENNAS AND TRANSMISSION | ||||
| Update on Nautel AUI and VX transmitters- Matt Herdon and Mike Woods - 6/2/22 | Video | |||
| FM Antenna Patterns - Shively (7/10/21) | Video | |||
| Antenna Patterning - Sean Edwards, Bob Surette, Kyle Sanders - Shively (10/22/20) | Video | |||
| Slug Tuning for a Better Antenna Match - Steve Wilde - American Amplifier Tech (1/28/21) | Video | |||
| Antenna Matching 102 - Steve Wilde - American Amplifier Tech (4/15/21) | Video | |||
| Maxxcasting & Zonecasting - Bert Goldman (12/10/20) | Video | |||
| Diplexing FMs - Steve Moreen (Dielectric) (8/13/20) | Video | |||
| Liquid-Cooled FM with Don Backus (Rohde & Schwarz) (6/11/20) | Video | |||
| As the Antenna Burns - Clay Freinwald (3/25/21) | Video | |||
| HISTORY | ||||
| Centenary Radio - WBZ 9/16/21 | Video | |||
| A Century of Broadcasting: Fact & Myth - Donna Halper & Barry Mishkind (11/26/20) | Video | |||
| Audio Recording History - Jack Mullin (AES) (12/24/20) | Video | |||
| Drake-Chenault Radio Automation - Hank Landsberg | Video | |||
| Texas Broadcast Museum - Chuck Conrad (9/3/20) | Video | |||
| THE MAINTENANCE SHIFT | ||||
| The New PowerClamp/Talent Pod II - Hank Landsberg - 2/24/22 | Video | |||
| The New PowerClamp/Talent Pod II - Hank Landsberg - 2/24/22 | Video | |||
| Maintenance - How, Where, When? - 1/14/22 | Video | |||
| What Can Your Transmitter Tell You? - Jeff Welton - Nautel- 12/2/21 | Video | |||
| Things You Didn't Know You Needed - Jeff Welton - Nautel 11/4/21 | Video | |||
| How Long is Long Enough? - - Jeff Welton - Nautel - 9/2/21 | Video | |||
| Effective Troubleshooting Policies- Gordon Carter - (8/12/21) | Video | |||
| Planning for Maintenance - Jeff Welton - (3/4/21) | Video | |||
| Maintenance Issues - Group Discussion - (11/19/20) | Video | |||
| Burning Down the House - Jeff Welton - (4/1/21) | Video | |||
| Avoiding Single Points of Failure - Jeff Welton - (1/7/21) | Video | |||
| MICROPHONES | ||||
| Shure Microphones - Ben Escobedo 9/16/21 | Video | |||
| Designing Sennheiser Headphones & microphones - Brian Walker - (10/15/20) | Video | |||
| Shure Broadcast Microphones - Michael Petterson- (8/6/20) | Video | |||
| PROGRAM AUTOMATION | ||||
| Unscaring you about Rivendell - John Anderson (Paravel) - (7/23/20) | Video | |||
| SATELLITE ISSUES | ||||
| What is an 5G Update, and more- Mark Johnson - 3/17/22 | Video | |||
| 5G Update - Mark Johnson - LinkUp Communications 9/9/21 | Video | |||
| The C-Band Revamp status with Mark Johnson (LinkUp) - (4/16/20) | Video | |||
| C-Band Lump Sum payments - Mark Johnson - Linkup - (8/27/20) | Video | |||
| STREAMING | ||||
| Handling Streaming Audio - Joh Kean and Corny Gould 10/28/21 | Video | |||
| STUDIO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION | ||||
| NIRO - Acoustic analysis for studios - John Storyk and Peter D'Antonion | Video | |||
| Planning Your Studio - Gordon Carter - (11/5/20) | Video | |||
| Angry Audio/Studio Hub - Clark Novak, Mike Dosch - Angry Audio - (10/1/20) | Video | |||
| TEST AND MONITORING GEAR | ||||
| Monitoring and Control - Tony Peterle - WorldCast - 11/11/21 | Video | |||
| Nautel's HTML5 AUI - Matt Herndon - Nautel;- 10/22/21 | Video | |||
| RF Hawkeye - Dan Glavin (Dielectric (7/29/21) | Video | |||
| AVATAR - Chuck Kelly (BE/Elenos) (12/17/20) | ||||
| sUAS (drones) using IR cameras for antenna and tower inspection - Paul Shulins (4/8/21) | Video | |||
| IP Audio Monitoring with Ben Barber (Inovonics) (6/4/20) | Video | |||
| Getting Remote Delta Temperatures - John Ahern (Davicom) - (7/30/20) | Video | |||
| Remote Control Features and Flash Update - Bob Tarsio (BDI) - (8/20/20) | Video | |||
| Nautel's App: a bridge to HTML5 - Matt Herdon - (9/24/20) | Video | |||
| TRANSMITTER SITE OPERATIONS | ||||
| Making sure your ground is ground- John Belk, Tom LaBarge - 5/19/22 | Video | |||
| The Importance of a Grounding Audit - Tom LaBarge - Groundlinx- 2/10/22 | Video | |||
| Linking the Gozoutas to the Gozintas - - Jeff Welton - Nautel | Video | |||
| Grounding at the end of a Branch Circuit - Tom LaBarge - Groundlinx - (2/18/21) | Video | |||
| Static Dissipation - Jim Burt (Nott Limited) - (6/25/20) | Video | |||
| Getting the Best out of Ferrites - Jeff Welton - Nautel - (2/4/21) | Video | |||
| BackUPS with Hank Landsberg (Henry Engineering) - (5/14/20) | Video | |||
| Power Clamp - Hank Landsberg - Henry Engineering - (1/14/21) | Video | |||
| TRAINING PROGRAMS | ||||
| What is an Engineer? - Discussion - 11/18/21 | Video | |||
| Finding Elmers - not glue - Jeff Welton Nautel - (5/6/21) | Video | |||
Do you have any suggestions for topics to cover during the meeting or things you would like to learn from manufacturers or vendors, please let us know!
Thanks for being part of our group!
Lunch Gathering Info/Links
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1. This week's recording will show up here in a few days.
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2. Internet-based Broadcast Industry Mailing Lists: www.radiolists.net
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