Remote Trailers

[Brian Bowers]

Summer remote broadcast season is here. Is there anyone that rents broadcast trailers in the Midwest area? I'm sure there isn't a lot of demand for this, so I wouldn't be surprised if one didn't exist. Equipment is not needed. The available footprint is 10' x 20'. No air conditioning is needed. I am fielding this question for a colleague, so I don't know every bit of info, but at this point, we are looking for any suggestions.   

[Chuck]

I don't know of any for rent, but why don't you just build one? We took a lightly used 22 foot travel trailer and converted it.  There are some pictures on our web site www.kzqx.com under the "station tour" button.  It wasn't that hard or expensive.  You might even be able to a trade out with a local RV dealer.

[PirateJohnny]

Every time one of your KZQX pages load on my Mac, Quicktime opens with an alert that "the URL is not valid".

[Chuck]

Every time one of your KZQX pages load on my Mac, Quicktime opens with an alert that "the URL is not valid".

That's weird.  Maybe your Mac doesn't like the fact that there is a Windows Media Player embedded in the page.  It works fine on a PC or Android device.  Sorry, I don't have a Mac to try it.  Try this link instead: http://chalkhillmedia.org/kzqx/
Or maybe http://www.qx-fm.com/

[Chuck]

Incidentally, a couple of pictures of the trailer are located at the bottom of the home page.  Interior shots are found on the "Station Tour" page.

[PirateJohnny]

That's a nice trailer, Chuck.  A station I worked at in 1992 had a Winnebago!  More recently they had a trailer that was painted like a giant boom box.  How is that BE board working for you?  I have a similar 8 pot board (8S250) in my home studio.

[Chuck]

The BE board is a real nightmare.  It picks up RF like it is going out of style.  It looks cool, but I think its days in the trailer are numbered.   

[amos]

chuck,
i really enjoyed seeing your pages, especially the museum photos.  i'd seen your dumont telecruiser pages before.  great work!

i have a point to make about your vintage mic photos.  the turner 999 has a WAYS charlotte mic flag.  according to what i've read the turner 999 is a 1930s to 1950s vintage mic.  the WAYS mic flag is circa 1973.  http://www.thatwasradio.com/images/logo1973.gif. 

 in the 1970s WAYS had an EV-RE20 with its 309A shock mount in the main studio.   it didn't, however, have a mic flag.

an appropriate mic for the flag could be something like a EV 635A or the like.

here's a youtube video from WAYS in 1982  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRKb8qB5sF0

-amos

[kenglish]

WMDM-FM tried one of those BE boards back in 1976, about ten feet from the WPTX-AM transmitter. No luck  !

Have you thought of renting (trade-out) an RV, and using a WillBurt "Hurry-Up" mast for your antennas? Decorate the rig with some stick on signage, or even a "wrap", if the RV company will go along with it. An RV would give you plenty of room to work, and will have air conditioning and electrical power, too.

[Chuck]

i have a point to make about your vintage mic photos.  the turner 999 has a WAYS charlotte mic flag.  according to what i've read the turner 999 is a 1930s to 1950s vintage mic.  the WAYS mic flag is circa 1973.

Well, you are quite right.  In my previous life, I was in the concert sound business.  I got the WAYS flag at a Rare Earth concert we were doing in Charlotte.  A very obnoxious DJ slapped it on one of my mics (probably a Shure SM-58) while he kept the crowd "entertained" during a set change.  He never retreived the mic flag, and it ended up in one of our equipment trunks.  That was probably 1973, maybe 1974.  About 25 years later, it became affixed to that Turner mic.  I'm not sure why, but is still there. In the interest of accuracy, I suppose I should move it to a different mic, but most people would never notice the difference.