This Week in Radio Tech (Video HI)

by TWiT
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Broadcast Engineers – especially Radio engineers – work behind the scenes to bring you most everything we listen to, including web-delivered audio. With encouragement from Leo himself, broadcast engineer and radio station owner Kirk Harnack brings you This Week in Radio Tech. Along with co-hosts Tom Ray, Chris Tobin, and Chris Tarr, TWiRT episodes feature sage audio advice, "There I was..." stories, and instruction from some of the sharpest minds in audio media technology today. TWiRT is smart, informative, and lots of fun for audio, RF, and packet-loving geeks.Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy these older episodes from the TWiT Archives.

Recent Episodes
  • TWiRT 134: Bees in the Feed Horn - This week we talk about nanotechnology, tiny capacitors, skin effect, and bees in the feed horn.
    Jun 21, 2012 – 1:10:38
  • TWiRT 133: Friday Night is for Calculus - This week, Chris Tarr and I tackle tough issues including Friday night calculus, dead birds and strobe lights.
    Jun 14, 2012 – 57:40
  • TWiRT 132: Time, Ticks, and Tarr - This week, Tom Ray gives us a tour of WWV, the station that's all time all the time.
    Jun 7, 2012 – 1:02:26
  • TWiRT 131: Tennessee Car Zapper - Gentlemen, start your bulldozers! And a story about the Tennessee car zapper.
    May 31, 2012 – 1:06:05
  • TWiRT 130: War Stories - War stories of radio engineering from the trenches with our guest Curt Yengst, Assistant Engineer at WAWZ radio.
    May 24, 2012 – 1:09:32
  • TWiRT 129: Bill Harland gives us a tour of the ERI factory and how to put two big signals together efficiently.
    May 22, 2012 – 1:09:04
  • TWiRT 128: John Poray joins us to talk about where are all the new young engineers, and more.
    May 9, 2012 – 1:05:31
  • TWiRT 127: Tune for Darkness - The Space Shuttle Enterprise does a flyby of New York, is Harris Corp. getting rid of its broadcast division, and more.
    May 2, 2012 – 1:04:10
  • TWiRT 126: Kirk NAB's Tom's Beer - What we saw at NAB in Vegas, streaming, filters, transmitters, and more.
    Apr 25, 2012 – 1:13:43
  • TWiRT 125: Live at NAB - TWiRT live from NAB Show 2012!
    Apr 18, 2012 – 2:02:05
  • TWiRT 124: We NAB'ed Gary Kline - NAB is coming up next week, we get a chance to talk to Gary Kline Senior VP of Engineering and IT at Cumulus Media.
    Apr 11, 2012 – 1:04:28
  • TWiRT 123: Engineering for Content - We engineers tell programers what to do all over again, and more.
    Apr 4, 2012 – 1:04:15
  • TWiRT 122: Chewy in the Middle - Online help forum for radio engineers, we open up a "Pandoras" box of online streaming philosophy, and more.
    Mar 28, 2012 – 1:15:21
  • TWiRT 121: Big Bottoms and Aural Excitement - Explore the tech of the APHEX Aural Exciter, and big bottom a staples of audio production.
    Mar 21, 2012 – 1:05:53
  • TWiRT 120: Can You Repair These Tubes? - War stories of radio engineering from the trenches with our guest Dana Puopolo Chief Engineer WURD Radio.
    Mar 14, 2012 – 1:13:06
  • TWiRT 119: Paul Shulins - HD Radios, personal people meters, complacency in the engineering office, and more.
    Mar 7, 2012 – 1:06:14
  • TWiRT 118: Distorted Monkeys - We talk about the social network just for broadcasters, Commotion, and more.
    Feb 29, 2012 – 1:18:02
  • TWiRT 117: 4 Kilovolts and Counting - Kirks is broadcasting from Riga Latvia, EM testing, a tour of a radio station and more.
    Feb 22, 2012 – 1:19:51
  • TWiRT 116: Decoding HE-AAC - Tutorial of HE-AAC, digital audio info, High-Fidelity Streaming Audio Player, and more.
    Feb 15, 2012 – 1:20:03
  • TWiRT 115: 13 Studios and a Engineer - Take a tour with Kirk and Chief Engineer Dylan Scott at COX Media Group in Tampa Florida, to see the inter workings of a Radio Station and more.
    Feb 8, 2012 – 59:52
  • TWiRT 114: This Old Birdhouse - Coming at your from WHBC in Canton Ohio with some retro radio equipment, and more.
    Feb 2, 2012 – 1:11:48
  • TWiRT 113: All Over the Map - We drive all over the engineering map, radio apps, QR codes, and more.
    Jan 25, 2012 – 1:05:49
  • TWiRT 112: Dude Where's My Satellite - Kirk and Chris catch up on lightsquared, Radio vs TV, SOPA, and pointing your dish.
    Jan 18, 2012 – 1:14:24
  • TWiRT 111: Now That's a Twisted Pair - This week we talk to Stephen H. Lampen, MultiMedia Technology Manager at Belden, a manufacturer of the cables we use to connect just about everything.
    Jan 5, 2012 – 1:06:37
  • TWiRT 110: Bob Orban - This week we talk to Bob Orban, who developed the OPTIMOD solution that combines several processing structures into a single box to maximize loudness and still meet government broadcast regulations.
    Dec 14, 2011 – 1:11:12
  • TWiRT 109: Adapt or Die - This week we talk to Terry Baun, Director of Engineering and Operations for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.
    Dec 7, 2011 – 1:08:02
  • TWiRT 108: Of Mics and Men - This week we chat with George Whittam, a leading expert in voice over studio design.
    Nov 30, 2011 – 1:12:48
  • TWiRT 107: You're Grounded - We talk about RF interference, how to keep it out of audio circuits and how to fix it.
    Nov 16, 2011 – 1:03:18
  • TWiRT 106: Duck Farts - We talk about duck farts, otherwise known as the National EAS Test.
    Nov 9, 2011 – 1:05:43
  • TWiRT 105: Multi-Label Packet Switching - We talk about the basics of IP service from Telco and other providers as it pertains to broadcasters.
    Nov 2, 2011 – 1:14:26
  • TWiRT 104: Kiss My EAS - This week we talk tubes: the glowing kind, and counting down to the National EAS Test.
    Oct 26, 2011 – 58:35
  • TWiRT 103: This Is Just a Test - In this episode we're cramming for the national EAS test coming in November.
    Oct 19, 2011 – 1:14:40
  • TWiRT 102: OK, Pay Me Later - In this episode we'll help you decide when it is OK to hire that expensive engineer.
    Oct 12, 2011 – 1:12:13
  • TWiRT 101: North to Alaska - We talk about the costs of AM broadcasting in Alaska and how going green saves the green.
    Sep 28, 2011 – 59:06
  • TWiRT 100: Thwap, Thwap, Thwap - Join us for a war stories episode complete with transmitter sound effects.
    Sep 21, 2011 – 1:09:40
  • TWiRT 99: When 110% Is Too Much - When is giving 110% not such a good idea? When it's modulation!
    Sep 14, 2011 – 1:10:39
  • TWiRT 98: Stump the Chumps - In this episode we play "Stump the Chump" with the radio engineering fanatics in the chatroom.
    Sep 7, 2011 – 1:09:02
  • TWiRT 97: Goodnight Irene, and Good Riddance! - We talk about Hurricane Irene and staying on air in her aftermath.
    Aug 31, 2011 – 1:05:55
  • TWiRT 96: Big Red Button - We talk about earthquake warnings, Chris Tarr's big red button, the general radio sexless connector, and more.
    Aug 24, 2011 – 1:05:05
  • TWiRT 95: Audio Connectors - We talk about the right way to connect audio connectors to your audio cable.
    Aug 17, 2011 – 1:06:45
  • TWiRT 94: AES and AOIP - In this episode we talk about the upcoming AES convention in New York and AOIP developments for broadcasters.
    Aug 10, 2011 – 1:22:28
  • TWiRT 93: Benchwork - In this episode we talk about troubleshooting and repair of broadcast equipment including tips and techniques from industry veteran, Mark Persons.
    Aug 3, 2011 – 1:09:37
  • TWiRT 92: Donna Halper - In this episode we talk about programming, promotions and some positive reports about radio listening with Donna Halper.
    Jul 20, 2011 – 1:09:42
  • TWiRT 91: Devices in Aggregate - In this episode we talk about noise. RF noise is increasing and making radio communications more difficult in some places.
    Jul 13, 2011 – 1:05:20
  • TWiRT 90: War Stories - The national EAS test, where's my copper?, radio war stories, and more.
    Jul 6, 2011 – 1:10:26
  • TWiRT 89: Audio Snobbery - Our favorite radios, radio pet peeves, audio snobbery, will 64Hz always be, and more.
    Jun 29, 2011 – 1:01:57
  • TWiRT 88: The Radio Experience - Penalties for pirate broadcasters, an in depth look at RDS and web metadata interactivity tools, and more.
    Jun 22, 2011 – 1:07:01
  • TWiRT 87: Reports of Our Demise - A resurgence in radio listening, interactivity for radio audiences, an HD radio tip, and more.
    Jun 15, 2011 – 1:01:26
  • TWiRT 86: Bill Putney Builds a New FM Station - Guest Bill Putney tells us how he put together a new community FM station. From equipment selection to installation to testing.
    Jun 8, 2011 – 1:08:37
  • TWiRT 85: In the Field - Balancing crazy work hours and home life, building radio station studios in Afghanistan, AM field strength readings, and more.
    Jun 1, 2011 – 1:06:51
Recent Reviews
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    Great Idea to Join TWiT!
    It was a great idea to move TWiRT to the TWiT network. I would always try to watch TWiRT when it was live, but if I missed it I was too lazy to go to the TWiRT page to download new episodes and since it wasn't in video. Now that they are on TWiT I don't have to go anywhere special to download it and there is a video format, so I will never miss another episode!
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