Phone lines - How many and what kind does your station have?

Types of Phone Lines

KDX today has VOIP with a single cordless phone. We canceled cable land-line and prior to that canceled copper-pair land-line.

In yesteryear, when responsible for a remote public radio studio we had a 15 kHz equalized pair, a low-bandpass fixed connection for the remote control unit, and two public land-line phones for radio business.

We have never had cellphone.

i have a xfinity voip for station listeners, a Verizon home phone connect cell to pots line for transmitter remote control, and then a cell for personal use.

Radio by Telephone

I've already described the physical aspect of the phone system here at KDX, and now I'll discuss how we utilize the telephone in our radio work.

Many of the Low Power Hour radio programs contain long-form conversations using our phone line and a modified Radio Shack speaker phone working as a so-called "hybrid" which couples the call to the mixer and the microphone to the phone call. It sounds the same as call-in systems at well engineered stations.

Noticing that some internet radio stations manage to have real-time listeners who willingly phone in to join topical talk programs we are not in that position because the only listener common to KDX is myself, for whose benefit the station operates.

As an academic exercise we think about methods that might enlarge our listenership for live caller involvement, but so far that is not our mission.

We believe that radio management should be aware of everything, including things we do not do.