There's no such thing...

Very little time today: just got back from the kickoff meeting for converting our stations' news microwave equipment to digital. The short version is, Sprint/Nextel is paying to move everyone to new equipment so that they can take part of the radio band we were using. This get-together explained the timetable and the steps we take over the next year. They even fed us, though nobody quite figured out what kind of soup that was. So maybe there really is a free lunch— the next year will tell.

Dad was there... not an especially festive way to celebrate a 70th birthday, but interesting.

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What you don't want to hear when you walk in the door: "Come quick! Everything's gone squirrely in the control room!" Guess I'd better go see.

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Breaking news! A double post! A bifurcated blog!

I just finished yet another project, making the final connections for emergency bypass controls for each of the channels we control. So if the automation goes belly up, we can keep the stations on the air the old fashioned way: panicing and pushing buttons. These panels have been in the rack for a few weeks, running in a passive mode so people can touch them and get used to them. Now that the buttons actually do things, I went about and attached stickers to each panel: