Unless you have someplace to stash it for a month or two.
We received ours for Delilah two weeks ago, but I didn't have the time to play with it until today. Found the satellite just fine, tech guy set it up, seemed happy. Two hours later it faulted out.
Official word is that they are not ready to launch, but they want you to keep the things hooked up to the satellite AND a LAN connection to the internet pending activation sometime in October. Apparently the west coast "suits" haven't been to a small station recently. Their contact with radio is to inspect some rack room in LA engineering.
I have just room enough in my control room kitchen cabinet-base rack* for one receiver, so the Starguide went back in. Not only that, I have only one network cable pulled in that side of the control room (over through an airless crawl space in the attic & down the partition wall---3 hour project the first time).
I actually do have a "rack room" (the whole station has 3 studios for 2 stations, plus offices in a 35X50 building)--two 5' racks in one studio with two other Starguides, and our network switch--as well as Sine remote control, studio switching, an Orban 424, two Orban ST's, a couple of DA's, EAS off-air receivers, monitor receivers, plus an MX 15 for a non-com translator on our tower. Bottom Line is we will have to sit the XDS receiver on top of the rack to keep it hot.
It goes back into the box until Premiere is ready to move.
*When we remodeled the control room 2 years ago the former ops mgr. wanted everything off the studio countertop except for the console and computer monitors. So we used a 24" kitchen cabinet base from Lowe's, cut down to about 32" high from 36" to create equipment racks. The door is removed, and 2X4's and shims (painted black) are used to hang two Middle Atlantic rack rails 19" apart (abt. 10 RU available). For ventilation, drawer removed and Middle Atlantic vented panel shimmed in place in that opening. We have two of these in the control room, along with other size cabinet bases to create a 15 X 7 ft. "T" shaped studio installation, the top of the "T" along one wall, short side of the "T" forms an island open in center where the console is installed. Designed so talent can face each other across console. Black marble Formica over the pecan colored cabinets. A 36" sink base with doors removed houses the computers. One "rack" has the console power supply, monitor amp, one Starguide, fan panel and another panel with some switching; the other the Premier receiver and EAS. A drawer is mounted in the bottom of this second base for a dot-matrix printer used for the EAS. It sits on a small stand in the drawer so we can pull it out to reload paper and collect alert printouts, then store it back in the base. Total cost including installation--abt $2k
We received ours for Delilah two weeks ago, but I didn't have the time to play with it until today. Found the satellite just fine, tech guy set it up, seemed happy. Two hours later it faulted out.
Official word is that they are not ready to launch, but they want you to keep the things hooked up to the satellite AND a LAN connection to the internet pending activation sometime in October. Apparently the west coast "suits" haven't been to a small station recently. Their contact with radio is to inspect some rack room in LA engineering.
I have just room enough in my control room kitchen cabinet-base rack* for one receiver, so the Starguide went back in. Not only that, I have only one network cable pulled in that side of the control room (over through an airless crawl space in the attic & down the partition wall---3 hour project the first time).
I actually do have a "rack room" (the whole station has 3 studios for 2 stations, plus offices in a 35X50 building)--two 5' racks in one studio with two other Starguides, and our network switch--as well as Sine remote control, studio switching, an Orban 424, two Orban ST's, a couple of DA's, EAS off-air receivers, monitor receivers, plus an MX 15 for a non-com translator on our tower. Bottom Line is we will have to sit the XDS receiver on top of the rack to keep it hot.
It goes back into the box until Premiere is ready to move.
*When we remodeled the control room 2 years ago the former ops mgr. wanted everything off the studio countertop except for the console and computer monitors. So we used a 24" kitchen cabinet base from Lowe's, cut down to about 32" high from 36" to create equipment racks. The door is removed, and 2X4's and shims (painted black) are used to hang two Middle Atlantic rack rails 19" apart (abt. 10 RU available). For ventilation, drawer removed and Middle Atlantic vented panel shimmed in place in that opening. We have two of these in the control room, along with other size cabinet bases to create a 15 X 7 ft. "T" shaped studio installation, the top of the "T" along one wall, short side of the "T" forms an island open in center where the console is installed. Designed so talent can face each other across console. Black marble Formica over the pecan colored cabinets. A 36" sink base with doors removed houses the computers. One "rack" has the console power supply, monitor amp, one Starguide, fan panel and another panel with some switching; the other the Premier receiver and EAS. A drawer is mounted in the bottom of this second base for a dot-matrix printer used for the EAS. It sits on a small stand in the drawer so we can pull it out to reload paper and collect alert printouts, then store it back in the base. Total cost including installation--abt $2k
I do the same thing with "cat2" when she crawls on top of the bed at 3 in the morning and starts yowling for no reason at all...