[BC] LPFM's, now, reliable remote closures

[Craig Bowman]

Tom,

If you have ISDN the zephyr sends four closures in MPEG stereo mode.  I 
used it for the Michigan Talk / Sports Networks to NPR when we moved the 
uplink last fall.  Of course for RPU you can use 25/35 for three 
different closures and soon (when wireless Internet) is more available 
you can always VNC into your automation and run it yourself.

Craig Bowman


Tom Bosscher wrote:
> Mark Humphrey wrote:
>
> >I tried to devise a simple and reliable way to insert local IDs at 
> the remote
> >sites way back then, but couldn't find a suitable (inexpensive) remote
> >control scheme, so they are still reading the list once an hour.
>
>    With all the advances in our broadcast technology, we still seem to 
> lack an easy way to get four to eight contact closures in the audible 
> region. I still would like to see someone come up with a box (puleez, 
> don't make it a card for one more cpu in the rack), that would use the 
> tone sequence like CBS/NBC/ABC used 20 years ago. Audible, yes, but 
> very quiet. These would be nice for triggering the translator ID's, 
> for controlling the automation at the studio by talent at the remote, 
> and for all the hundreds of programs that are sent live via ISDN or 
> whatever to ABC, but the contact closures aren't there. And again, 
> lets drop the DTMF,25/35 Hz stuff. We should be able to do better.
>
> tom bosscher
>
>
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