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Looking for Omnia.FM parts
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You mean like this??
http://bohnbroadcast.com/forsale/processing.htm
BTW-- I have one that likes to "blue screen"--audio gets either "tinny" sounding or even completely unintelligible. "Rebooting" cures the problem. Power supply--which would be logical suspect in a 10 year old unit--has already been replaced. Anyone else seen this problem?
http://bohnbroadcast.com/forsale/processing.htm
BTW-- I have one that likes to "blue screen"--audio gets either "tinny" sounding or even completely unintelligible. "Rebooting" cures the problem. Power supply--which would be logical suspect in a 10 year old unit--has already been replaced. Anyone else seen this problem?
I have what you're looking for !
It's an Omnia FM chassis to restore/for parts. I must say that it don't works, purshased for parts but never used due to the purshase of a newer processor.
It contains the motherboard (have signs of repair...) also 5 DSP cards (3 should work), power supply OK, display board (bad condition) and chassis have many signs of use, no top cover.
Shipping from Europe. Make offer and feel free to ask for pictures.
It's an Omnia FM chassis to restore/for parts. I must say that it don't works, purshased for parts but never used due to the purshase of a newer processor.
It contains the motherboard (have signs of repair...) also 5 DSP cards (3 should work), power supply OK, display board (bad condition) and chassis have many signs of use, no top cover.
Shipping from Europe. Make offer and feel free to ask for pictures.
JB1011 said:
No, everything looks normal on the display, but the audio sounds weird. In a mild seizure, just sounds tinny; unplugging the unit and rebooting gets it back to normal. The night of our Christmas party--30 miles from the station at a state resort, it went completely nuts--it was making some kind of noise, but nothing resembling audio. Almost like a badly out of tune radio. Again, rebooting cured it.
We tried a new power supply, but that proved not to be the problem. I bought the other one offered for sale by Bohn, it's now on the air.
We tried a new power supply, but that proved not to be the problem. I bought the other one offered for sale by Bohn, it's now on the air.
TomT,
How does the 802B analog stack up against digital exciters? There was someone on here a while back saying it was better than all of the current digital offerings. What is the ballpark cost of one? Thanks,
How does the 802B analog stack up against digital exciters? There was someone on here a while back saying it was better than all of the current digital offerings. What is the ballpark cost of one? Thanks,
TomT said:So far, no problems. I like the nice open sound I get (AC with lots of 80's), have a new 802B waiting in the rack to be installed once the snow melts & I can drive to the transmitter site.Station went up a point 12+ in the latest book, demos probably much better than that.
At the moment we have an 802A on this station (Parkersburg), feeding an Energy-Onix ECO-4; on our other two stations we have an FX-50 (feeding a Nautel V-2.5) and an 802B (feeding a Harris FM-10K). The other stations use Omnia 3T processors. All of these exciters were purchased used, and rebuilt.
I have a new 802B ($4995) in the rack at the Parkersburg station, awaiting install when the weather gets more stable (freezing rain forecast for tonight). It's a shared site, the common rack was too shallow for the "B" so I put in a short, 26" deep rack. However, in order to install the exciter I need to disentangle the STL coax and move it and the STL receiver into the new rack. Definitely a Sunday project.
Have no point of reference to compare any of my stations with a digital exciter; don't believe anyone in the market uses one. The used 802B was purchased with the intent of replacing an elderly Energy-Onix exciter on the Parkersburg station. When it would not fit the rack, I installed it at our St. Marys station, to drive the 10K and moved a 6 year old Armstrong exciter from there to Parkersburg instead. The improvement was so dramatic my business partner urged me to get another Continental exciter.
The Armstrong was pulled after a few weeks in Parkersburg because of interference to our STL (a long and messy story)--the interference caused a low, rumbling noise that unlocked the AFC in the Armstrong--taking the transmitter off the air. I stuck an 802A on a card table behind the rack to replace the Armstrong, the 802A has a better AFC and simply feeds the noise on through.
In theory, I prefer a good analog exciter over a digital exciter because it means one less analog to digital conversion. If you had a plant that was digital from studio straight into the exciter I kind of see the point. However, I still believe a well-engineered analog plant and path will sound just as good--or better, than a mixed analog and digital set-up.
One problem with the early Harris digital exciters (of the same era as the Omnia.FM) was they ran at a 38 khz digital rate--a lower rate than this processor was capable of. Sort of pointless in a way.
I have a new 802B ($4995) in the rack at the Parkersburg station, awaiting install when the weather gets more stable (freezing rain forecast for tonight). It's a shared site, the common rack was too shallow for the "B" so I put in a short, 26" deep rack. However, in order to install the exciter I need to disentangle the STL coax and move it and the STL receiver into the new rack. Definitely a Sunday project.
Have no point of reference to compare any of my stations with a digital exciter; don't believe anyone in the market uses one. The used 802B was purchased with the intent of replacing an elderly Energy-Onix exciter on the Parkersburg station. When it would not fit the rack, I installed it at our St. Marys station, to drive the 10K and moved a 6 year old Armstrong exciter from there to Parkersburg instead. The improvement was so dramatic my business partner urged me to get another Continental exciter.
The Armstrong was pulled after a few weeks in Parkersburg because of interference to our STL (a long and messy story)--the interference caused a low, rumbling noise that unlocked the AFC in the Armstrong--taking the transmitter off the air. I stuck an 802A on a card table behind the rack to replace the Armstrong, the 802A has a better AFC and simply feeds the noise on through.
In theory, I prefer a good analog exciter over a digital exciter because it means one less analog to digital conversion. If you had a plant that was digital from studio straight into the exciter I kind of see the point. However, I still believe a well-engineered analog plant and path will sound just as good--or better, than a mixed analog and digital set-up.
One problem with the early Harris digital exciters (of the same era as the Omnia.FM) was they ran at a 38 khz digital rate--a lower rate than this processor was capable of. Sort of pointless in a way.
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