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Why are we still using POTS broadcasts?

Juan Bodley said:
Like everybody's saying, "why fix what isn't broken?" Hey even the Komet hockey broadcasts on WOWO are on POTS. Even what they feed over the Internet is on POTS. That's the way the team wants it, and for years WOWO had a Marti feed, with a permanent antenna mounted on the Coliseum. (someone correct me if I'm wrong; I happened to see one up there once and based on where it was aimed I made an assumption.)

When I was doing games for CC's WJHS-FM we used Comrex into another school's phone line for away games, we used Martis if we couldn't run a long enough cord, and then we got the first era Cellcast (the big heavy honkin' box.) They all worked one way or another.

When it works keep with it until somebody reinvents the wheel.
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But part of the issue was really poor sound quality...for some of us, poor sound quality is no longer acceptable. POTS can be a lot better than it typically is...use it if needed, but use good quality equipment and protocols.
 
Actually -

The current Comrex Access units have a POTS mode that the average listener can't tell from IP ... capable of full stereo on a 24K connecttion ...

All codecs are NOT created equal ...
 
Many times I've helped stations get sports on the air with a cell phone plugged into a mini-mixer due to no landline at a school stadium. When the crew arrives and asks "where do we catch the phone line?", and an athletic director or booster person says "we only have one phone line in the press box, and it needs to be kept open for calling in the scores to the newspaper, and emergencies", you have to get the play by play back to the studio, you do what you can. Luck doesn't play on your side when you assume that away games have the same considerations for your station as the home school that you are actually broadcasting has for you.

I've been along with the station that shows up to the answer "what radio broadcast? don't know anything about a phone line for a broadcast..." Thank goodness for cell phone headset jack and the mini mixer.
 
Isn't POTS what Bernard Shaw (CNN) used in Baghdad for the start of the first Gulf War?
 
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