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- Sensors Help Bonneville Manage Farnsworth
Barry McLellan This is one in a series about trends in remote control and RF facility management. Barry McLellan is a site engineer for Bonneville International. He lives on Farnsworth Peak in Utah, where the company operates three FM stations and recently modernized the site’s master antenna infrastructure. Radio World: What do you consider the most important recent trend in how broadcasters control and monitor transmission facilities? Barry McLellan: When something goes wrong at the transmitter site, remote controls are the one device in a broadcast plant that can make or break your BBQ, vacation or just potentially let you get back to sleep for the slim remainder of the night. The old days were not so good. I’m sure we’ve experienced an overnight part-timer calling late at night from the studios, and you would need to explain how to get readings out of the Moseley MRC-1600 and maybe talk them through a complex process for turning on the aux transmitter in the hope you wouldn’t have to drive to a snowy mountain-top transmitter site at 2 a.m. A modern remote control at a transmitter site is crucial for monitoring, compliance and control. These systems have improved so much over early remotes that tied monitoring and alarming to a fixed control point. Along came improved remotes that used a POTs line or cellular connection to get the remote’s data to/from a remote transmitter site. Could anyone else, while almost completely asleep, answer the phone while practically asleep, enter the password, go through the alarm list, run the appropriate macro to get your station back on the air and fall right back to sleep? I was a DTMF master! These were a big improvement but had limits. The cellular link could be sketchy, it might not pass DTMF tones well, and we’ve all experienced the disappearance of POTs lines. The biggest improvement I’ve experienced with modern remote controls is the installation of solid IP connectivity at our sites. If a local IP provider is not available, sometimes this means a 5.8 GHz ISM link, a 900 MHz modem diplexed on your STL link, or possibly working with a WISP provider. The newer IP-based remote controls have so much information available on-screen at once, configured just the way you want these readings to appear. The connection can be left open all day on your work desktop or phone showing all your sites at… [TheTopNews] Read More.40 mins ago - BREAKING: UAE Oil Facility Catches Fire After Iran Drone Strike Amid US Troop De...
The conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel is continuing to escalate with Iran threatening UAE oil ports and a drone attack soon following. President Donald Trump announced on Friday strikes on Kharg Island, a hub where a majority of Iran’s oil goes through. He said military targets on the island were “obliterated.” “Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Iran responded by threatening United Arab Emirates (UAE), specifically vowing to target “ports, docks and hideouts within” cities. Reuters reported not long after those public threats that some oil-loading operations were suspended in the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah emirate, citing sources. CNN and others later aired video showing the oil hub on fire. “Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” Trump announced about the Kharg strikes. The Port of Fujairah sits near the Strait of Hormuz where Iran has targeted cargo ships and tied up oil shipments. The emirate’s media office said on Saturday that the fire at the port was caused by an Iranian drone being intercepted. No injuries were reported. Approximately one million barrels of oil go through the port every day. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, made the original threat against UAE cities after the Kharg attack, saying they will target “all oil, economic, and energy infrastructures belonging to oil companies across the region that have American shares or cooperate with America.” The port fire comes amid reports that the U.S. is moving warships and thousands of soldiers to the Middle East to respond to the conflict. Watch above via CNN.The post BREAKING: UAE Oil Facility Catches Fire After Iran Drone Strike Amid US Troop Deployment first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - US Embassy Burns After Being Struck By Missiles As Trump War on Iran Rages The United States embassy complex in Iraq was struck by missiles and burned as President Donald Trump’s Operation Epic Fury raged toward its third week. As the second week of the Iran war comes to a close, 13 U.S. servicemembers have been killed, a preliminary military investigation has determined the US is responsible for the strike on an elementary school that killed at least 160 children, and attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have exacerbated surging prices and roiled the stock market. Trump has consistently made statements to the effect that the United States has “already won” and derided news coverage suggesting otherwise. While the US has dominated Iran militarily, attacks continued into the weekend as Trump headed to Florida. As he departed on Friday he was asked when the war will end, and he said “We’re way ahead of schedule” but would not give a timeframe. Just after midnight in the U.S., Reuters reported on a missile attack in Baghdad: March 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad was hit in a missiles attack, Iraqi security sources told Reuters on Saturday. The attack caused smoke to rise from the embassy’s building, the sources said, without providing details on the damage. According to The Associated Press, missiles hit a helipad inside the embassy no claim of credit has been made, but noted Iranian proxies have targeted the complex before: No one immediately claimed responsibility for the strike on the embassy’s helipad. The embassy complex, one of the largest U.S. diplomatic facilities in the world, has been repeatedly targeted by rockets and drones fired by Iran-aligned militias. There was no immediate comment from the embassy. On Friday, it renewed its Level 4 security alert for Iraq, warning that Iran and Iran-aligned militia groups have previously carried out attacks against U.S. citizens, interests and infrastructure and “may continue to target them.” Watch above via CNN and AP.The post US Embassy Burns After Being Struck By Missiles As Trump War on Iran Rages first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- White House Insiders Say Trump’s Private Phone Number Is Out There Being Sold:...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File President Donald Trump’s private digits have become a hot commodity and the White House is receiving reports about a growing market of people trying to nab them one way or another. The Atlantic’s Michael Sherer reported on Saturday, citing two administration officials, that the president’s private phone number is involved in “suspected horse-trading and black-market sales among influence brokers.” CEOs and crypto investors are reportedly offering money for the number while journalists are taking to trading the phone numbers of other world leaders in baseball card-like exchanges. According to the report, Trump’s number has been “offered for sale to deep-pocketed interests seeking influence.” What is unusual about the president is how accessible he is with journalists often noting with surprise that they can simply call the president’s private line. One of the officials speaking to The Atlantic said Trump can typically receive 10 calls from the press in two hours on his private line. “It is literally call after reporter call,” one of the officials said. “It is just boom, boom, boom.” Many of the numbers are reportedly not even saved under names. The number is now so widely circulated among press that White House officials have found themselves Googling independent names they’ve never heard before. “It’s out of control,” an administration official said. “It’s like a wrecking ball.” On top of CEOs offering money or “crypto bros” offering cryptocurrency, The Atlantic noted that they got their own offer for the president’s number. Scherer wrote: We were recently approached by another journalist who offered to trade more than two dozen cellphone numbers of significant stature for the one number of most significant stature. (We declined.) One person we talked with has heard that the going rate for this sort of swap is a one-to-one trade for another major world leader. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly responded to the new report on Trump’s phone number and said, “President Trump is the most transparent and accessible president in history. The press can’t get enough of Trump, and they know it.”The post White House Insiders Say Trump’s Private Phone Number Is Out There Being Sold: ‘It’s Out of Control!’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Confronted By Reporter On When War Will End — Claims Media Says Iran ‘... President Donald Trump attacked the media when a reporter asked him when the war will end, complaining that they report Iran is “doing wonderfully.” As the second week of the Iran war comes to a close, 13 U.S. servicemembers have been killed, a preliminary military investigation has determined the US is responsible for the strike on an elementary school that killed at least 160 children, and attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have exacerbated surging prices and roiled the stock market. Trump and his administration have also taken heavy criticism over a series of conflicting messages on the Iran war that include saying we’ve already won but also need to keep going until it feels right. President Trump spoke to reporters as he departed to Florida for the weekend, and was again asked how long the war will last after again bragging about the US “dominance” over Iran in the war. The president responded that he couldn’t say, but “I have my own idea” and “It’ll be as long as it’s necessary.” He also described some of the coverage as suggesting, of Iran, “Oh, they’re doing wonderfully” and claimed the war is “way ahead of schedule”: REPORTER: How long now do you think the war is likely to last? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I can’t tell you that. I mean, I have my own idea, but what good does it do? It’ll be as long as it’s necessary. They’ve been decimated. The country’s in bad shape. The whole thing is collapsing. If you read some of the fake news, it’s like, oh, they’re doing wonderfully. They’re not doing wonderfully, they are doing the opposite. They’re doing as bad as you can have. I would say this. I won’t give you time, but we’re way ahead of schedule. REPORTER: Can you comment on–. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Way ahead of schedule. Watch above via White House press pool.The post Trump Confronted By Reporter On When War Will End — Claims Media Says Iran ‘Doing Wonderfully’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Trump Gives Stunning Answer When Fox Host Asks How He’ll Know War Is OverPresident Donald Trump gave a stunning answer when Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked him “When are you going to know when (the Iran war is) over?” As the second week of the Iran war comes to a close, 13 U.S. servicemembers have been killed, a preliminary military investigation has determined the US is responsible for the strike on an elementary school that killed at least 160 children, and attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have exacerbated surging prices and roiled the stock market. Trump and his administration have also taken heavy criticism over a series of conflicting messages on the Iran war that have dogged the effort — in some cases emanating solely from Trump and in the same sentence. The president gave an interview to Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show that dropped Thursday morning with a flurry of newsworthy and noteworthy exchanges, many of which had to do with the war. After Trump once again called the war a “little excursion,” Kilmeade asked him the question that elicited a response befitting a jazz musician: KILMEADE: When are you going to know when it’s over? TRUMP: When I feel it. KILMEADE: OK. TRUMP: When I feel it in my bones. KILMEADE: Will you ask anybody in particular? Would that be some of these, a joint decision? TRUMP: Well, I deal with people. I have great people. KILMEADE: Yeah. TRUMP: I have General Raizin Caine. I have Pete. Pete’s turned out to be a star. Marco’s great. J.D. I’ve got all good people. I’ve got — we’ve got a great group. KILMEADE: So you — let’s talk about, if I can, looking back in history, George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, two smart guys disagreed in front of Reagan. Rumsfeld and Colin Powell disagreed in front of George W. Bush. In your cabinet, with the vice president, secretary of state, what is it like, what are the dynamics when you have a big decision like Iran or Venezuela? Are people speaking up and speaking their minds even if — TRUMP: They do. I let them speak their mind, and they do. And we have some differences, but they — they never end up being much. I convince them all to let’s do it my way. Watch above via Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show. and watch the full interview here.The post Trump Gives Stunning Answer When Fox Host Asks How He’ll Know War Is Over first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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