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Post by sparepart on Jan 24, 2021 14:49:33 GMT
Busy weekend at the Makerspace studio - The usual suspects removed the legacy cabling between the podcast table, and the equipment rack. Split the rack into two modules, and used them to form the frame of the new engineers workstation. Welding the hardware to tie the two racks together (takes the stress off the countertop if the assembly is bumped or leaned on) New balanced cabling was installed, with a great deal of extra wiring being eliminated. Hard to see in the pictures, Track lighting above the new desk was installed, flown on Grip-Lock cable. Color temperature is much easier on the eyes
Before picture, with a spine severing edge on the counterop
Splitting the rack into two sections
Semi finished product. Track light fixtures are pulls (free)
SP
PS - Finally received permission to paint over the two-tone green walls as well.
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Post by Boomer on Jan 24, 2021 18:21:32 GMT
Great! You could have a major studio there, and be big on line, and ready for radio-TV.
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Post by sparepart on Jan 24, 2021 21:50:16 GMT
More along the lines of "hmmmm.....
.....that does not work the way we expected, lets try something else"
SP
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Post by sparepart on Feb 6, 2021 21:48:39 GMT
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Post by Boomer on Feb 7, 2021 0:53:06 GMT
I like how the hard drives are tucked in and ready to go, under the glass table. If the C: drive fails in a workstation, you're ready to go to keep the show rolling, like a fire extinguisher behind glass.
That's a system I should have, I never do the OS mirror backup, but I have a whole backup PC ready when my on-air computer fails.
How has the AM carrier current station been going? If it's causing trouble, ask around here, there are some carrier current techs here currently.
Boomer
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Post by sparepart on Feb 7, 2021 1:35:04 GMT
That's actually a PC enclosed in an aluminum framed, coffee table with a glass top! Fits right in with the Makerspace motif.
Keeping with the show must go on thingie - One of the other projects today was converting two used HP servers to a H/A firewall cluster running pfSense, and adding fiber optic network interfaces.
The black cable ladders are dumpster finds, the bracket to connect the ladder to the server rack rack is a cut-up steel bed from from from the curb!
SP
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Post by sparepart on Feb 7, 2021 15:49:32 GMT
Carrier current station runs with no intervention required. The TR6000 is feeding WWII and swing era music to the TCU via Rivendell automation.
SP
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Post by Boomer on Feb 8, 2021 21:04:19 GMT
That's new, I didn't know you had a Radio Systems transmitter. I've seen them on the market occasionally, but never sprang for one, since I haven't helped anyone get a station going for a while, and haven't been involved with another carrier current station yet.
Hope you get some use out of it and it generates some fun for those who like AM radio technology, or maybe sparks some interest, or memories, if they can hear your station in their cars on a visit. You can add some old radios and make a mini museum for 100 years of AM broadcasting.
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Post by sparepart on Feb 9, 2021 23:35:09 GMT
Our neighbors across the street
SP
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Post by mark on Feb 10, 2021 1:52:18 GMT
Gorgeous restoration of that TV and floor model radio!
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Post by sparepart on Feb 10, 2021 11:47:12 GMT
The RTM team is among the best. As an example, their restorations have gone to the detail of finding custom grill cloth woven so it's indistinguishable from the OEM part.
The longer term plan is to add transmitters (three if we can afford it) and diplex them into the carrier current system, each playing music and airchecks from legacy stations in the area. This way, visitors can experience radio as it was.
SP
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