Once it landed in its new home, the GV15 was a breeze to install. (Hey, if it worked for the ancient Egyptians …) The Gates was placed in an adjoining building on the site, where it will likely reside as a museum piece of sorts. With little room to maneuver dollies or hand trucks, we resorted to using sections of 2-inch steel pipe as rollers. Even though the GV15 is smaller than the Gates, it’s much heavier. The GV15 would then occupy the same space in our small building as the Gates once the latter was moved out. This also affected power to our FMi-1405, which would become our backup, and we had to carefully choreograph switching to the old Gates one last time before it would be decommissioned.
STAR99 1 RADIO GENERATOR
Ron and I, with the help of our longtime electrician Bob Fernandez, had to plan out some rerouting of the utility wiring to ensure the GV15 would have proper UPS protection and generator backup. Installation of something this critical obviously takes careful planning. And built-in asymmetrical HD capability, ready to go with a finger tap on the UI screen, is something WAWZ will be taking advantage of in the near future.”Īnother feature that got our attention is the ability of the GV15’s exciter to accept the MPX output of our Orban 8600 processor directly via AES/EBU digital format. WAWZ’s General Manager Scott Taylor said, “Nautel’s reputation precedes them, but after doing the research it was the reliability and efficiency that sold the day.”Ĭhief Engineer Ron Habegger echoed that sentiment and added, “It has much higher efficiency in hybrid FM mode than we were accustomed to. Every time we put it on the air was like taking a small step backwards. The Gates was, and still is, a beautiful piece of engineering, and saved our bacon more times than we can recall but it operated at a lower TPO and wasn’t capable of HD Radio broadcasting. Our backup transmitter was a Gates FM10H3 tube transmitter that WAWZ purchased new in 1975! The BE FMi-1405 has been very good to us during its tenure, but when maintenance or component failure made it necessary to switch to the backup transmitter, we found ourselves hobbled. Our 99.1 MHz HD2 features a Gospel format, while 99.1 HD3 features Christian rap and hip-hop.
This has also allowed us to add two additional program channels to our main offering of contemporary Christian music.
STAR99 1 RADIO INSTALL
And while the install went smoothly, it wasn’t without a fair amount of fancy footwork.įor nearly 15 years, Star 99.1 has been able to broadcast in HD Radio with a Broadcast Electronics FMi-1405. With the recent installation of a new Nautel GV15 FM IBOC transmitter, WAWZ(FM) in Zarephath, N.J., finally has both feet firmly planted in the 21st Century.
STAR99 1 RADIO FULL
Read full story with photos at > A new transmitter for a radio station has the same effect that a new car for everyone else Radio World, by Curt Yengst, January 10, 2019
0 kommentar(er)
