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Georgia Public Telecommunications, a long-standing RF Specialties of Florida customer, recently installed a new remote control system in order to get a handle on its nine TV and 11 FM stations throughout the state of Georgia.
The new remote control is based on the building block approach of Moseley MRC-2s, with the majority of inter-transmitter site communication relayed over 9600 bps leased data lines.
Three of the public network's FM stations and three of its TV stations are being controlled from one transmitter site in Cochran, Georgia, and two TV and three FM stations are being controlled from another transmitter site in Pelham, Georgia. Another controlling transmitter site controls two TV stations and another controls two TV and five FM stations. "Our controlling stations can crank up the power on another station 60 miles away. And that is all fed to the computer, which takes daily meter readings. It'll do a number of things other than just remote control," commented Guy Cochran, Georgia Public Telecommunications' engineer in charge of the project.