[BC] Emergency studio

[Glen Kippel]

If you are using a dual-mono analog STL, you must put the Optimod (or other
combined processor-stereo generator) at the transmitter.  If you are running
a composite STL, you must put the Optimod or equivalent at the studio.  If
you have to have a studio at the transmitter site, then in that case you
would need a processor up there, with a coax switch to put it on the air.  I
would not worry about having EAS capability for the XMTR studio if it is for
emergency use only.  If it appears that you would need to program from there
for more than a few days, move the EAS unit.

On 7/14/06, Wade Giddens <wg345 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>   At  the  station  I  work for, we have discussed having a backup audio
>   source  at  the FM transmitter site, in case of disaster at the studio
>   building.   The  transmitter  building has room for a PC, a tiny mixer
>   board  and  a  microphone.   It  would  be  better  than  nothing in a
>   disaster.   To  do this, we would need a processor at the transmitter.
>   When  I asked one engineer about the possibility of moving the Optimod
>   from  the studio to the transmitter, he reacted like it was an idiotic
>   idea.   We  have  an  Optimod  2200 at the studio, with digital output
>   going  to  a  Harris CD Link STL.  At the transmitter end, the CD Link
>   goes  into  a  Harris  Platinum  Z  transmitter  with  the Digit CD FM
>   exciter.    What  do  you  think? Would  having  the  Optimod  at  the
>   transmitter  be  a  good  idea  or  a bad idea?  Would having a backup
>   processor  at  the transmitter be a better idea?   Would there need to
>   be  some  sort  of  limiter  at  the  studio  prior to the STL, in the
>   position  where  the  Optimod  is  now?  I would think that having the
>   Optimod  at  the  transmitter  would  make  using  a Marti as a backup
>   emergency  STL  easier to set up.  What about EAS in a case like this?
>   The EAS is at the main studio, not at the transmitter.
>
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