[time-nuts] can of worms: time-of-day in a community radio station
jimlux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 19 21:20:44 UTC 2019
On 10/18/19 12:20 PM, Eric Scace wrote:
> I fear that I am developing a reputation for bringing to the list rather oddball questions. In my rôle as agent provocateur, therefore, here is another such problem.
>
> Questions for you are at the end. Thanks for your thoughts,.
>
> — Eric
>
I think that one aspect is more the "display" than the
mechanism/implementation behind it. Digital displays are terrible for
this, you really want an analog display with the sweep second hand.
If you're reading copy to prep, and waiting for the cue, it's hard to
switch between reading copy and read digital display - the analog second
hand is a great indication of "how long til I'm live"
So, one thing that you might want to do is figure out an inexpensive,
easily duplicated, not depending on surplus, way to get that "analog
wall clock".
It seems that you should be able to get a LCD display (doesn't have to
be high res), hook it up to a RPi or something commodity, and find
software that displays a round wall clock, and syncs to NTP.
If you can find software that integrates cue-ing with the wall clock so
much the better - all the radio stations I've ever been at run their
operations on a fairly repetitive schedule -for instance, PBS stations
do station ID at the top, national news, local news, then network feed,
with well defined outserts and inserts.
Back in the day (i.e. more than 20 years ago) I saw an analog clock that
had LEDs around the dial that showed the *minute* when the various cues
were, and the "next cue" would blink. It was up to the talent and the
engineer to hit the mark with respect to the second hand crossing 12.
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