Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 17:56:28 GMT
Ideas Come Into the Head
Life's greatest high is sitting there with a smooth-running radio station and getting an idea about how to make it even better.
People without the satisfaction of a radio station go to elaborate and expensive extremes in their attempt to make life tolerable, such as ocean cruises and European tours.
For the radio person reward comes as easily as sketching a new floor plan.
See this control position here? The work station, audio mixer and desk, all facing west. What we plan to do is turn everything so it faces north. Simple, manageable, and architectually brilliant!
This change is expected to attract new listeners.
|
|
|
|
Post by Boomer on May 19, 2017 20:11:38 GMT
True, I wish I would have been as clever when dad was getting on me for spending so much time in my basement building radios and broadcasting, he thought I was isolating myself in my hole down there. He didn't have to worry about racing in the streets or impregnating girls. I imagined that when my radio was successful, the girls would come to the studio to look at my power tubes.
What I need in the studio is more desk space for a bigger mixer. I'm using a student desk, and it has a Radio Shack mixer, 13 inches wide and tall, monitor, keyboard, mouse, mic stand, all on top of a spongy mat. The newer mixer is 19 inches wide. The old one works, but the new one would be much better and likely quieter.
Boomer
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 20:43:19 GMT
See?
Boomer is already getting into it: "What I need in the studio is more desk space for a bigger mixer."
You deserve to have that bigger mixer! Your happiness depends on it!
|
|
|
|
Post by Boomer on May 20, 2017 5:03:05 GMT
You're right Carl, I think it would bring the morale in the room up to have a new mixer. The Radio Shack is from 1980, a black metal cased line and mic mixer, top of the line at the time, with bass/treble EQ and pan pots on each of the 6 channels. I've had to change capacitors in a channel, and one pot isn't working. Lighted analog VU Meters. I have a semi-pro mixer with LED meters, RCA plugs in, PC port USB and stuff like that, but bigger. When I get that in, I'll be so protective, like covering it with a dust cover when I'm out of the room, it will just make more work..  It's like when computers were new, very expensive, and there wasn't a lot to do with them except homework or programming, so people actually turned them off sometimes. When they did, they had dust covers to put over your CPU, printer, etc., to seal it all up. I saw those and later, Mad Magazine noticed the high protection trend among computer users and offered a 'Computer dust cover, dust cover' a cover you put over your current dust cover to keep it from getting dust on it. Boomer |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 20, 2017 13:00:57 GMT
Furniture Report
Boomer on dust covers: "...and later, Mad Magazine noticed the high protection trend among computer users and offered a 'Computer dust cover, dust cover' a cover you put over your current dust cover to keep it from getting dust on it."
There is a dust cover on our Panasonic AVE-5 Video Mixer from the 1990s when we had a video studio. It now has all the dust from the last 20-years. We needed another dust cover, but now it's too late.
Last night I signed off early to start moving the radio furniture. To celebrate I watched a movie and had a nine-course dinner. That was so good I turned it into a double feature.
So, this morning I was going to start at 5 AM and move the furniture. But sleeping during the thunderstorm was too good and now KDX has to be on the air to carry the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra with host Alec Baldwin.
Tonight is the ALPB Meeting, which I already goofed up a few weeks ago when I took everything apart to expand the desk which never got done.
But this furniture will get moved by Monday morning.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 20, 2017 17:10:54 GMT
Furniture Report # 2
While the infinitely long Wagner opera is airing on KDX Worldround Radio we are slowly moving everything away from the control desk that isn't involved with keeping the broadcast on the air.
By identifying crucial wiring we are aware what must be moved around, re-patched, lengthened, to finally allow rotating the desk by 90-degrees.
The C.Crane monitor radio on a stool has been moved out of the way, the cordless telephone base needs to be somewhat re-connected, and the Ramsey FM30b will probably need to be moved until we get a longer audio cable.
We may be close to inching the desk around so our new control position will be in place for tonight's ALPB meeting.
|
|
|
|
Post by cthuskyman on May 26, 2017 19:25:04 GMT
Ideas Come Into the HeadLife's greatest high is sitting there with a smooth-running radio station and getting an idea about how to make it even better. It rocks, doesn't it? Knowing you're on the air, even if you're just on your own little Part 15 AM station, can be a real mind-blower. I get a lot of satisfaction out of it. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 19:31:19 GMT
Mind Blower
Matt CTHuskyman says: "Knowing you're on the air, even if you're just on your own little Part 15 AM station, can be a real mind-blower."
Carl adds... AND ALSO on the internet at the same time!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 27, 2017 20:12:27 GMT
The After Math
That might actually be one word. Let's see what the spellchecker thinks... "aftermath". Yep, it didn't turn the word red to indicate a misspelling.
Anyway, the "aftermath" is all the mathematics that was done wrong and needs to be re-done, like balancing a checkbook.
In our case at KDX we moved a desk with some wires. Everything seemed o.k. until this morning a scheduled broadcast from the TeamSpeak Open Room was futzed by a loud HUM caused by an unknown problem.
In a moment I will be crawling behind everything trying to figure out what's wrong. This has happened so many times over the years. Why am I no better at it than I ever was?
Carl's crying spell is sponsored in part by grilled cheese sandwiches. No one ever complains about them, you can eat them until you need to sit down.
|
|
It's like when computers were new, very expensive, and there wasn't a lot to do with them except homework or programming, so people actually turned them off sometimes. When they did, they had dust covers to put over your CPU, printer, etc., to seal it all up. 
