Broadcast television engineering related tech topics, rants and outright pontifications.
Many, many, many projects over the years…. I certainly don’t like to sit around doing nothing (take this web site for example), but I have only recently (since about 2000) begun to memorialize the more significant events in my career through photographs and recorded details. I used to note just the major projects I was [...]
Here is a project I am justifiably proud of. Our corporate engineering management had determined that we were to use a Harris Flexicoder as the core of our HDTV encoding, but outside of that we were to determine what we needed to best integrate it into our facility. Initially, I was not pleased with the [...]
A few grainy images of the Andrew side-mounted antenna we ordered for the KHBS DTV transmitter in Poteau, Oklahoma (which serves the Fort Smith, Arkansas market).
I’d love to take all the credit for this project, but who would believe me?!?! This required the experience and assistance of not only our station’s engineering department, but also the combined efforts of contracted electricians, transmitter installers, HVAC installers, a local construction company and tower riggers.
What follows is a blow-by-blow retelling by Larry Friddle (my Asst. Chief Engineer at the time) on 10 JAN 2001 of a very difficult and stressful couple of weeks where everything seemed to be going wrong and the weather was definitely set against us… My name is Larry Friddle. I am the Assistant Chief Engineer [...]
The existing news and weather sets at KHBS were in a small set adjacent to the newsroom, called studio ‘A’ and overdue for an updated look and layout since they had been in use for over 10 years. The new sets were built in the ‘studio next door’, studio ‘B’. Most of that studio was [...]
When I arrived to the KHBS/KHOG TV market in 1998 the tertiary station KHOG in Fayetteville was running its locally sold spots by manually breaking away from the programming they were receiving from KHBS. The Master Control Operator on duty would change a crosspoint on their router and then manually trigger a series of spots [...]