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RDS encoding from 2 sites

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LeighNash

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Our station originates from two locations/markets. In AM Drive, one market is the master and the other station simulcasts it. The rest of the day, the other market's studio is the master.

We have a nice switching system that tells our transmitters where to take the feed from.

However, we are unsure how to tell each site where to get our RDS information from.

Anybody here knowledgeable about this kind of thing?
 
> Our station originates from two locations/markets. In AM
> Drive, one market is the master and the other station
> simulcasts it. The rest of the day, the other market's
> studio is the master.
>
> We have a nice switching system that tells our transmitters
> where to take the feed from.
>
> However, we are unsure how to tell each site where to get
> our RDS information from.
>
> Anybody here knowledgeable about this kind of thing?
>
Ahhh what is your STL feed and how are you switching? (Composite, T1, etc?)
 
> However, we are unsure how to tell each site where to get
> our RDS information from.

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> Our station originates from two locations/markets. In AM
> Drive, one market is the master and the other station
> simulcasts it. The rest of the day, the other market's
> studio is the master.
>
> We have a nice switching system that tells our transmitters
> where to take the feed from.
>
> However, we are unsure how to tell each site where to get
> our RDS information from.
>
> Anybody here knowledgeable about this kind of thing?
>
Well if you send RS-232 like some stations with digital STL systems you could use a magnet latching relay with the wipers going to the RDS encoder and connect the STL RX RS-232 to the other contacts. You have 4 poles but you should need only 2 TX Data and RX Data and keep the ground common.

The other method would be switching the composite and that could be done with a broadcast tools switcher. The have a nice BNC switcher that will do the job nicely.

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> > However, we are unsure how to tell each site where to get
> > our RDS information from.
>
> What are you using to encode the RDS and how is it currently
> sent?

Equipment-wise, I do not know the name. Our current set up just has a piece of RDS hardware at our transmitter site. We aren't doing song-title yet, and won't until we can figure out the answer to how to make each transmitter understand where (which studio) we are sending RDS from.
 
> > Our station originates from two locations/markets. In AM
> > Drive, one market is the master and the other station
> > simulcasts it. The rest of the day, the other market's
> > studio is the master.
> >
> > We have a nice switching system that tells our
> transmitters
> > where to take the feed from.
> >
> > However, we are unsure how to tell each site where to get
> > our RDS information from.
> >
> > Anybody here knowledgeable about this kind of thing?
> >
> Ahhh what is your STL feed and how are you switching?
> (Composite, T1, etc?)

Digital STL via microwave to each tower. However, T1 between stations. If we are master in one market, our T1 takes the audio to the other market's studio and then that station's STL, and vice versa.
 
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