This Week in Radio Tech HD
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Broadcast Engineers – especially Radio engineers – work behind the scenes to bring you most everything we listen to, including web-delivered audio.Broadcast engineer and radio station owner Kirk Harnack brings you “This Week in Radio Tech”. Along with co-hosts Tom Ray, Chris Tobin, and Chris Tarr, TWiRT episodes feature sage audio advice, “There I was…” stories, and instruction from some of the sharpest minds in audio media technology today. TWiRT is smart, informative, and lots of fun for audio, RF, and packet-loving geeks.
- Website
- https://gfqnetwork.com
- Description
- “TWiRT” is your go to show if you want to get behind the scenes on what makes broadcasting possible. The show addresses common issues as well as explaining past experiences from a wide array of hosts who each come from a different background in radio technology. This show is a must for any tech geek or for anyone who is interested in what goes on behind the boards and wires.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-18 15:08
- last episode published
- 2024-05-17 16:36
- publication frequency
- 7.12 days
- Contributors
- guysfromqueens
- Owner
- guysfromqueens
- Author
- guysfromqueens@gmail.com (guysfromqueens)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 346
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Technology
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-05-17 | Dan Case just retired from full-time broadcast engineering - and some key projects are fresh on his mind. Dan started his radio career in Erie, Pennsylvania, and quickly moved up with more responsibility and some engineering management. Dan believes in... |
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| 2024-05-10 |
TWiRT Ep. 695 - Big Tech for Smaller Markets with Dave Radigan Boasting 17 signals in 4 radio markets - in New York and Pennsylvania - Radigan Media represents the kind of local radio that’s not only serving its local communities, but doing so with newer technologies. Dave Radigan wears many hats in his growing ne... |
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| 2024-05-03 |
TWiRT Ep. 694 - CHR Radio Engineering in Santo Domingo with Rafael Recio Many radio engineers love to visit other radio stations. We get ideas to perhaps implement in our own stations. Or sometimes we may get a sense of satisfaction thinking that we’ve done a superlative job in our own facilities - compared to others. Today... |
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| 2024-04-26 | Chris Tarr just finished a long-anticipated FM transmitter move. Big implications attended this move all the way across a metro area. The new site needed a directional FM antenna, and they decided that a new transmitter made more sense than moving the ... |
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| 2024-04-17 | What’s happening at NAB 2024 in Las Vegas? No way can anyone bring you ALL of the highlights, but we’re bringing seven outstanding engineers and corporate leaders to you on this episode of TWiRT! Our broadcast studio is the Bionic Table at Broadcast Bi... |
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| 2024-04-14 | The Public Radio Engineering Conference (PREC) seems to get better and better each year. Attendees were frequently held in wrapped attention by captivating and informative presentations about audio and RF technologies and techniques. Our guests on TWi... |
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| 2024-04-05 |
TWiRT Ep. 690 - Mics & Mic Processing with Cornelius Gould & Tom Ray Search the web and you’ll find hundreds of articles videos - and thousands of opinions - on the best mics to use for radio and podcasting. One of our sponsors is Angry Audio, makers of two novel mic processors to improve and control the sound of two po... |
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| 2024-03-29 |
TWiRT Ep. 689 - Transmitters: Brand New or New to Me, with Dominic Mitchum and Robert Combs Can you imagine installing 60 broadcast transmitters over the past 8 years? Robert Combs, Corporate Director of Engineering at Cumulus Media has been doing exactly that. Transmitters of all sizes and from several major manufacturers. The most recent tr... |
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| 2024-03-22 | Over 50 years ago, Mike Dorrough introduced the Discriminate Audio Processor - the DAP 310. Broadcasters that cared about audio quality started buying and installing DAP310s to improve the audio quality of their stations. Five decades later these old a... |
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| 2024-03-15 | Most broadcasters either own towers or lease antenna space on them. But only the tallest towers are outfitted with elevators to bring workers and light tools up to desired working levels without spending half the day getting tired from climbing. Jim Ti... |
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