Introducing OpenOB
The next post will be part 3 of my Engineering FM series but it’s time for a quick diversion to introduce a tool I ended up producing, initially as a contingency plan, but later as a serious project, for implementing outside broadcast audio links and studio-transmitter links using the Real Time Protocol. That tool is [...]
Engineering FM – Part 2
This is the second in my series of posts looking at the engineering side of running a community radio station broadcasting on FM. For part one, look here. This post will be focusing on telemetry, focusing on doing telemetry over IP and integrating bidirectional telemetry for radio metadata. In our TX system we’ve got a [...]
Engineering FM – Part 1
This post is the first in a series of posts I’m going to do covering some of the engineering aspects of setting up a Community FM Radio station in the UK, and the lessons I and others learned while setting up the system. First a bit of background. The station I helped set up, Insanity [...]