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Thursday, June 02, 2005
This week has been above all things.... BORING. Nothing good or even interesting has happened all week. When the highlight of my week is a lizard hanging on my car from Wal-Mart at 55MPH all the way to work where our resident lizard expert (the overnight guy for KARN) plucked him off the car and released him, you know that it's been one uneventful week.
Today, however will be a first for me. It's one of those things that I see as a rite of passage into this industry, and into Broadcast Engineering more specifically. Today an audio processor company is taking the Boss and I out to a (supposedly) nice lunch, and I get to play with their converted Suburban full o' processors. These are the big boys, ORBAN, which is what you will find processing about 60% of all commercial radio stations. Possibly more. It's kinda like a big EQ for the whole station, and they have some cool stuff, if you are a total radio dork like me. Orban has been around for a long time, and they are very good at what they do. We use alot of their products but we are looking at HD radio in the next few years, and that means NEW PROCCESORS!!! (Read: NEW TOYS!!!)
Some stations have already started broadcasting in digital. One for example, is WOR 700AM in New York. They have some audio samples availible to give you an idea of what HD radio can do. It's not perfect, but it sure is an improvement. I just worry that skywave will be a thing that I tell my grandkids about and they won't believe me
So the boredom will cease for a couple of hours today, but overall it will continue until tomorrow evening. Saturday morning we head to Branson for a day or two. I know... it's lame, but hey it's out of town again! I'll take all the out of town I can get right now!
We are looking at vacation in september too... BEACH!!!! W00T!
I have no spiritual insights to share right now, but I think maybe I will in a couple of days. That would be a nice change, wouldn't it!
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