I'm at WBAS in West Yarmouth
Jan. 31st, 2014 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
necturusJust under four hours from now, WBUR AM 1240 in West Yarmouth, MA will become WBAS, with a Brazilian format. I have spent an immense amount of time getting this to work. The studio in Centervile is still not ready -- no heat, for one thing -- so the programming is going to come from my client's other station, WSRO in Framingham. There is a local automation system and a switcher capable of accommodating up to eight different audio sources; a lot of the programming is eventually going to come from people with home studios.
My biggest problem right now is that there is no way to monitor the station from off Cape, as the signal doesn't reach the Boston area. If we spent the money we could get something like the Comrex BRIClink, which can pass audio in two directions, allowing the folks in Framingham to hear the station. But the BRIClink is not cheap, and my client doesn't want to spend the money.
I have something with me called a Barix Instreamer, and I could use it to encode an Internet stream, but I need to install it in Centerville tomorrow.
Hmm. I wonder if there's something I can do with this automation computer...
My biggest problem right now is that there is no way to monitor the station from off Cape, as the signal doesn't reach the Boston area. If we spent the money we could get something like the Comrex BRIClink, which can pass audio in two directions, allowing the folks in Framingham to hear the station. But the BRIClink is not cheap, and my client doesn't want to spend the money.
I have something with me called a Barix Instreamer, and I could use it to encode an Internet stream, but I need to install it in Centerville tomorrow.
Hmm. I wonder if there's something I can do with this automation computer...
