This Week in Radio Tech (Video)
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Episodes: 56
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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. With encouragement from Leo himself, 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.
Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy these older episodes from the TWiT Archives.
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TWiRT 134: Bees in the Feed Horn - This week we talk about nanotechnology, tiny capacitors, skin effect, and bees in the feed horn.
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Jun 21, 2012 |
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TWiRT 133: Friday Night is for Calculus - This week, Chris Tarr and I tackle tough issues including Friday night calculus, dead birds and strobe lights.
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Jun 14, 2012 |
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TWiRT 132: Time, Ticks, and Tarr - This week, Tom Ray gives us a tour of WWV, the station that's all time all the time.
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Jun 07, 2012 |
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TWiRT 131: Tennessee Car Zapper - Gentlemen, start your bulldozers! And a story about the Tennessee car zapper.
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May 31, 2012 |
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TWiRT 130: War Stories - War stories of radio engineering from the trenches with our guest Curt Yengst, Assistant Engineer at WAWZ radio.
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May 24, 2012 |
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TWiRT 129: Bill Harland gives us a tour of the ERI factory and how to put two big signals together efficiently.
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May 23, 2012 |
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TWiRT 128: John Poray joins us to talk about where are all the new young engineers, and more.
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May 10, 2012 |
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TWiRT 127: Tune for Darkness - The Space Shuttle Enterprise does a flyby of New York, is Harris Corp. getting rid of its broadcast division, and more.
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May 02, 2012 |
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TWiRT 126: Kirk NAB's Tom's Beer - What we saw at NAB in Vegas, streaming, filters, transmitters, and more.
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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TWiRT 125: Live at NAB - TWiRT live from NAB Show 2012!
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Apr 18, 2012 |
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TWiRT 124: We NAB'ed Gary Kline - NAB is coming up next week, we get a chance to talk to Gary Kline Senior VP of Engineering and IT at Cumulus Media.
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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TWiRT 123: Engineering for Content - We engineers tell programers what to do all over again, and more.
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Apr 05, 2012 |
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TWiRT 122: Chewy in the Middle - Online help forum for radio engineers, we open up a "Pandoras" box of online streaming philosophy, and more.
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Mar 29, 2012 |
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TWiRT 121: Big Bottoms and Aural Excitement - Explore the tech of the APHEX Aural Exciter, and big bottom a staples of audio production.
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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TWiRT 120: Can You Repair These Tubes? - War stories of radio engineering from the trenches with our guest Dana Puopolo Chief Engineer WURD Radio.
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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TWiRT 119: Paul Shulins - HD Radios, personal people meters, complacency in the engineering office, and more.
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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TWiRT 118: Distorted Monkeys - We talk about the social network just for broadcasters, Commotion, and more.
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Feb 29, 2012 |
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TWiRT 117: 4 Kilovolts and Counting - Kirks is broadcasting from Riga Latvia, EM testing, a tour of a radio station and more.
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Feb 22, 2012 |
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TWiRT 116: Decoding HE-AAC - Tutorial of HE-AAC, digital audio info, High-Fidelity Streaming Audio Player, and more.
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Feb 16, 2012 |
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TWiRT 115: 13 Studios and a Engineer - Take a tour with Kirk and Chief Engineer Dylan Scott at COX Media Group in Tampa Florida, to see the inter workings of a Radio Station and more.
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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TWiRT 114: This Old Birdhouse - Coming at your from WHBC in Canton Ohio with some retro radio equipment, and more.
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Feb 03, 2012 |
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TWiRT 113: All Over the Map - We drive all over the engineering map, radio apps, QR codes, and more.
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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TWiRT 112: Dude Where's My Satellite - Kirk and Chris catch up on lightsquared, Radio vs TV, SOPA, and pointing your dish.
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Jan 19, 2012 |
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TWiRT 111: Now That's a Twisted Pair - This week we talk to Stephen H. Lampen, MultiMedia Technology Manager at Belden, a manufacturer of the cables we use to connect just about everything.
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Jan 06, 2012 |
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TWiRT 110: Bob Orban - This week we talk to Bob Orban, who developed the OPTIMOD solution that combines several processing structures into a single box to maximize loudness and still meet government broadcast regulations.
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Dec 15, 2011 |
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TWiRT 109: Adapt or Die - This week we talk to Terry Baun, Director of Engineering and Operations for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.
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Dec 07, 2011 |
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TWiRT 108: Of Mics and Men - This week we chat with George Whittam, a leading expert in voice over studio design.
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Nov 30, 2011 |
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TWiRT 107: You're Grounded - We talk about RF interference, how to keep it out of audio circuits and how to fix it.
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Nov 16, 2011 |
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TWiRT 106: Duck Farts - We talk about duck farts, otherwise known as the National EAS Test.
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Nov 09, 2011 |
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TWiRT 105: Multi-Label Packet Switching - We talk about the basics of IP service from Telco and other providers as it pertains to broadcasters.
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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TWiRT 104: Kiss My EAS - This week we talk tubes: the glowing kind, and counting down to the National EAS Test.
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Oct 26, 2011 |
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TWiRT 103: This Is Just a Test - In this episode we're cramming for the national EAS test coming in November.
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Oct 19, 2011 |
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TWiRT 102: OK, Pay Me Later - In this episode we'll help you decide when it is OK to hire that expensive engineer.
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Oct 12, 2011 |
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TWiRT 101: North to Alaska - We talk about the costs of AM broadcasting in Alaska and how going green saves the green.
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Sep 28, 2011 |
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TWiRT 100: Thwap, Thwap, Thwap - Join us for a war stories episode complete with transmitter sound effects.
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Sep 21, 2011 |
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TWiRT 99: When 110% Is Too Much - When is giving 110% not such a good idea? When it's modulation!
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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TWiRT 98: Stump the Chumps - In this episode we play "Stump the Chump" with the radio engineering fanatics in the chatroom.
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Sep 07, 2011 |
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TWiRT 97: Goodnight Irene, and Good Riddance! - We talk about Hurricane Irene and staying on air in her aftermath.
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Aug 31, 2011 |
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TWiRT 96: Big Red Button - We talk about earthquake warnings, Chris Tarr's big red button, the general radio sexless connector, and more.
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Aug 24, 2011 |
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TWiRT 95: Audio Connectors - We talk about the right way to connect audio connectors to your audio cable.
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Aug 17, 2011 |
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TWiRT 94: AES and AOIP - In this episode we talk about the upcoming AES convention in New York and AOIP developments for broadcasters.
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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TWiRT 93: Benchwork - In this episode we talk about troubleshooting and repair of broadcast equipment including tips and techniques from industry veteran, Mark Persons.
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Aug 03, 2011 |
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TWiRT 92: Donna Halper - In this episode we talk about programming, promotions and some positive reports about radio listening with Donna Halper.
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Jul 20, 2011 |
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TWiRT 91: Devices in Aggregate - In this episode we talk about noise. RF noise is increasing and making radio communications more difficult in some places.
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Jul 13, 2011 |
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TWiRT 90: War Stories - The national EAS test, where's my copper?, radio war stories, and more.
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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TWiRT 89: Audio Snobbery - Our favorite radios, radio pet peeves, audio snobbery, will 64Hz always be, and more.
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Jun 29, 2011 |
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TWiRT 88: The Radio Experience - Penalties for pirate broadcasters, an in depth look at RDS and web metadata interactivity tools, and more.
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Jun 22, 2011 |
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TWiRT 87: Reports of Our Demise - A resurgence in radio listening, interactivity for radio audiences, an HD radio tip, and more.
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Jun 15, 2011 |
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TWiRT 86: Bill Putney Builds a New FM Station - Guest Bill Putney tells us how he put together a new community FM station. From equipment selection to installation to testing.
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Jun 08, 2011 |
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TWiRT 85: In the Field - Balancing crazy work hours and home life, building radio station studios in Afghanistan, AM field strength readings, and more.
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Jun 01, 2011 |
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TWiRT 84: Mary Ann Seidler - Kirk chats with Mary Ann Seidler about her work in developing MPEG technology.
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May 25, 2011 |
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TWiRT 83: Amateur Radio for Professional Engineers - Hamvention in Dayton, amateur radio experience for professional engineers is good for experience, and more!
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May 18, 2011 |
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TWiRT 82: Transmitter Sharks - Rising flood waters, the public file, more audio processing, the "public" airwaves, and more!
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May 11, 2011 |
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TWiRT 81: From Toilets to Transmitters - Ground Zero broadcasting when the President visits, crowd-sourced news, trouble shooting expectations, and more!
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May 04, 2011 |
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TWiRT 80: War Stories - Find out what it's really like behind the scenes in professional radio.
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Apr 27, 2011 |
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TWiRT 79: Palagi Joe - Have you ever replaced a fallen STL antenna in a hurricane? Joey Cummings has. Have you ever actually sent a Tsunami warning over EAS? Joey Cummings has.
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Apr 21, 2011 |