Dead air this morning on KNHC and KXSU. I left the house about 0600 and listened to dead air on both of them for about 10 minutes and then switched over to KUOW for the rest of the commute into my broadcasting facility. Found a bunch of windows updates either having been done and waiting for a restart or wanting to be done. Guessing that is the issue here, too.
With windows being nothing but a nightmare of updates and restarts, why don't stations use Linux or Mac for playback, and if you have to use windows why not keep these machines off the network, or disable auto-updates?
And aren't stations supposed to have a fail safe type of thing if you lose control of your transmitter, like a silence detector to shut the thing off after say 10 or 15 minutes?
I noted that KNHC still had the RDS info scrolling from the last song.
Val
With windows being nothing but a nightmare of updates and restarts, why don't stations use Linux or Mac for playback, and if you have to use windows why not keep these machines off the network, or disable auto-updates?
And aren't stations supposed to have a fail safe type of thing if you lose control of your transmitter, like a silence detector to shut the thing off after say 10 or 15 minutes?
I noted that KNHC still had the RDS info scrolling from the last song.
Val