Radio Brandy has relocated its west coast operations to Kern County. The relocation gives us access to faster broadband and all things living in a town offers like: A post office, grocery store, people and paved roads. Being out in the middle of nowhere had it drawbacks; like having to drive 40 miles for everything.
Radio Brandy Staff
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Radio Brandy Is Following Abby
Radio Brandy is proud to be following Abby Sunderland, on her Voyage home. Abby is a winner to us; no matter which way she home. Very few of us, would even have the guts to take on the world; like Abby has.
We are very proud of you! Abby! It's good to know you are safe.
Follow Abby here
Radio Brandy
Staff & Students
We are very proud of you! Abby! It's good to know you are safe.
Follow Abby here
Radio Brandy
Staff & Students
Monday, December 07, 2009
New AM & FM Stations Sign On
Monday, October 19, 2009
Rebuilding Transmitters & Antennas
We spent the weekend rebuilding a transmitter and cable assemblies. With the wind blowing endlessly around here; antennas and cables take a real beating. The areas around the fittings, receive the greatest abuse; so fittings were replaced first.
Murphy's law was definitely in effect this weekend: For the maintenance project; it was necessary to switch to our auxiliary transmitter and antenna. What should have been a quick switchover; took well over two hours. You name, and it failed! cables assemblies, SWR meter, antenna; you would never know we just tested it the week before.
Two weeks ago our original main transmitter failed after four and half years of service. Nothing major; just the RF final transistor opening up! It was at that time our auxiliary transmitter was placed into service; so we know it was working before a spare transmitter was assigned to main service; and the auxiliary transmitter was returned to standby service.
Another change was made: Since 90 percent of the programming is News-Talk; it was decided to drop the stereo signal. The advantage to dropping the stereo signal is improved coverage and less noise.
Radio Brandy staff
Murphy's law was definitely in effect this weekend: For the maintenance project; it was necessary to switch to our auxiliary transmitter and antenna. What should have been a quick switchover; took well over two hours. You name, and it failed! cables assemblies, SWR meter, antenna; you would never know we just tested it the week before.
Two weeks ago our original main transmitter failed after four and half years of service. Nothing major; just the RF final transistor opening up! It was at that time our auxiliary transmitter was placed into service; so we know it was working before a spare transmitter was assigned to main service; and the auxiliary transmitter was returned to standby service.
Another change was made: Since 90 percent of the programming is News-Talk; it was decided to drop the stereo signal. The advantage to dropping the stereo signal is improved coverage and less noise.
Radio Brandy staff
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Summer May Be Canceled In High Desert
It's June here in the High Desert, while normal temps should be in the high 90's during the day; the temps have been in the 60's with strong winds blowing nearly everyday since the first of June. Even our Arizona location has been below average, with temps in the mid 90's. Normal for this time of the year is 118 plus.
So much for global warming!
Staff
Radio Brandy
So much for global warming!
Staff
Radio Brandy
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Radio Brandy Adds New Elements
Radio Brandy will be adding new elements to its website and other sites it host. The new elements will include instructional videos; designed to help with the construction and operation of part 15 AM radio stations. The videos will be located on a new page, to be added soon.
Staff
Radio Brandy
Staff
Radio Brandy
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Vista Arrives At Radio Campus
Windows Vista Business is now on the Radio Campus; nobody can accuse us of jumping into things on a whim. Radio Brandy's homepage for the first time was created with Vista, using Site Spinner 2.7f. Up to this point, our website has been created with an old 350mhz running Windows 98SE; everything we use to create the site was on the old computer. From images, to paint programs and other editing tool were on it. The one advantage to the old computer; is that we knew our site was available to anyone with an older computer, and it still loaded pretty fast even with a slow computer.
One loophole we have found with Vista Business is you can't RIP CD's, even if it's your own work. Others have reported the problem; but nobody at Microsoft can explain why. We will work around that problem by upgrading an older Compaq Pasario 6000 running XP, but only has 128mb on board.
Staff
Radio Brandy
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