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Quote of Note
Stephen Pierce:
"Never let what you cannot do stop you from doing what you CAN do!"
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"And now, a word from our sponsor..."
TWiT - that  acronym stands for "This Week in Technology," a family of netcasts and radio shows anchored by Leo Laporte and his technology-minded friends. (Leo installed a new Axia Element in his Petaluma, California studios earlier this year.) It happens that the TWiT Network show "This Week in Radio Tech" is hosted by Telos / Omnia / Axia's own Kirk Harnack. This month, we become an official sponsor of TWiRT, which is chock-full each week with discussions of new gear, observations and anecdotes from guest engineers, and tech tips to help keep busy radio pros on top of their game. We invite you to check out This Week in Radio Tech to hear the latest show, subscribe to the podcast and browse the show archives.
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Congratulations, Smitty!
 Hearty congratulations to Greater Media's Milford Smith Jr., better known as "Smitty," for his pick to receive the 2010 "Excellence in Engineering" award from Radio World magazine. Besides being VP of Radio Engineering for Greater Media, he's also the chairman of the National Radio Systems Committee, the US' technical standards body for radio. Many of us have known Smitty for years, yet are continually impressed by his attention to details, knowledge of often-arcane technical ephemera, and unfailing helpfulness. Read the announcement at Read RW's announcement here..
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Omnia.11 is on the air
 Have you heard our new Omnia.11 audio processor yet?: You might have, and not even known it! Omnia.11 is on the air in "stealth mode" at stations across the US, drawing rave reviews from radio pros everywhere.
On second thought, you couldn't have heard an Omnia.11 and NOT known it, because there's no other audio processor out there that sounds like it. "11 is on the air now. With minor tweaking, we are really freaking LOUD!" writes one anonymous, yet well-known, engineer. "This thing is a game changer!"
For details about Omnia.11 from "the man" himself, Frank Foti, hop over to the Omnia website and check out the video on the homepage, straight from the Audio Processing Man-Cave.
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News from the Field
Who's getting new gear?
Telos Zephyr Xstream connecting at:
- Children's Healthcare of
Atlanta, Georgia - Curtis Media's WQDR, WPTF, WBBB, WYMY & WPLW, Raleigh, North Carolina
- WTMD-FM, Towson, Maryland
Omnia ONE is loud and proud at:
- WBBM-FM, Chicago, Illinois
- KZTB-FM, Pasco, Washington
- WTRU-FM, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Axia consoles and networks are on:
- KXUA-FM, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
- SuperQ 100.9 FM, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Club FM, Kerala, India
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Software Update:
Telos Zephyr iPort v1.5.1b. iPort is a multi-channel audio gateway that can encode 8 bi-directional MPEG streams (or 16 one-way streams) over any IP connection with QoS. The new software update enables 16-decoder operation, GPIO tied to MPEG audio streams, Shoutcast support and more.
Download it here, cost-free.
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Join Axia on Facebook
 If you're on Facebook (who isn't, these days?), type "Axia Audio" into the search box. Voila! You've found Axia's new Facebook home. It's really a natural for us... after all, we're a network company! Be sure to hit the "Like" button to keep apprised of the latest from Team Axia. Don't worry - we won't clutter up your News Feed with unimportant twaddle, but you will get to some cool studio photos, tech tips and engineering tidbits. You can shortcut directly to our Facebook page from www.AxiaAudio.com/facebook/ as well.
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Southern California Public Radio builds new studios with Axia
Five years, 30,000 square feet and 15 Element 2.0 radio consoles - that's just some of what went into building Southern California Public Radio's beautiful new KPCC-FM studios in Pasadena, California. How, exactly, do you build studios to compensate for a railroad running just feet away from your building? Read about this beautiful facility - built around Axia Livewire IP-Audio networking - in KPCC Director of Broadcasting Doug Johnson's article in the December 1 issue of Radio World. Don't have it yet? Read it online here.
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Burli becomes Axia's newest partner
 Simplicity is one of the biggest benefits of networked studios. Simpler audio infrastructure, less wiring, logic-follows-audio routing... and the ability to plug audio equipment together with a single CAT-5 cable and have it just work. Multiple channels of audio, all flowing on one connection; two machines in perfect sync.
Axia networks give you this advantage with our huge network of partner companies (over 30!) making gear that plugs right into your Livewire system - no muss, no fuss. Burli Software is the latest to become an Axia partner, which means your Burli Newsroom software will now be able to work natively with your Axia network using the Axia IP-Audio Driver. Cool, huh? Read more here.
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What about the C.A.L.M. Act?
Any questions on the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation law? Get answers from Linear Acoustic. The C.A.L.M. Act passed the Senate, the House of Representatives, and now awaits Presidential approval. Tim Carroll, president of Linear Acoustic, worked 2.5 years with other ATSC members to produce ATSC Recommended Practice A/85 - the standards document on which the C.A.L.M. Act is based, so he knows whereof he speaks. Check out his FAQ for real-world answers to TV broadcasters' questions.
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Tech Tip of the Month
EAS and Axia
 Daniel Somes, CE at Journal Broadcast Group in Tucson, writes "What's the best way to integrate TFT EAS receivers into Axia? Do I simply connect the EAS to an audio node for insertion to the Axia system?"
Axia go-to guy Marc Johnson replies:
"There are a couple different ways you can do this. The simplest way to make the TFT EAS unit part of your STL chain. Feed the output of a node into the EAS unit and then out to the STL. The other way is to use our PathfinderPC software to monitor the unit's closures (using GPIO), or just monitor the audio from the unit using Pathfinder's audio sensing capabilities. When you receive a closure or audio, you can have Pathfinder switch your STL path from the output of a node to the TFT/EAS unit... and then back when the alert is complete. Both of these methods will work fine - it just depends on how you would like to approach it."
Got a tech tip to share or a question you'd like answered? Email us - if we use it in eNews, we'll send you some cool swag!
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Discrepancy Sheet
By the Glow of the Tuning Dial
 You can't work in radio without finding a certain attraction to old receivers. Some of us like 70's pop-art portables, some like space-age 50's tabletops, others have a thing for early transistor sets. But there's an almost universal appreciation for the big tabletop and console radios from the 20s and 30s; sets with hand finished wooden cabinets housing big, glowing tubes. Radio collector Michael Feldt of IndianaRadios.com has been buying them since 1965, and he's amassed quite the selection of these big beauties. A huge photo gallery of sets is online, but must-see page is the gallery of tuning dials, many backlit and glowing brightly... as if DXing the night sky.
Until next time - Cheers!
Clark Novak + Angi Roberson + Denny Sanders
Axia, Telos & Omnia
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