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Another industry first from Radio World: CoolCast Video Demos give our readers a first-hand look at this year’s “Cool Stuff” Award Winning products.
The Radio World “Cool Stuff” Award, radio’s most prestigious technical honor, is given by a panel of engineering judges at the annual NAB convention in Las Vegas. Now you can experience up close and personal demos from the manufacturers and product gurus who bring exciting new tech to market at the show. Be among the first to see and hear why you may want to put these tools to use at your station today.
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Play Video Broadcast Electronics
TRE Revenue Center

Here’s a module for BE’s TRE Message Manager to track Messagecasting advertisers, campaigns and messages. Non-traditional revenue gets more sophisticated.
  Play Video Digital Radio Express Inc.
Aruba FMeXtra Receiver

The Aruba receives both analog FM broadcasts as well as FMeXtra digital programs. The company also announced at NAB that the receiver is conditional access programmable.
Play Video Broadcast Bionics
PhoneBOX Solo

“A terrific combination of a traditional broadcast call director and audio file editor.”
  Play Video Global Security Systems LLC
AlertFM USB

A portable FM receiver that allows emergency alerts and messages to be viewed on any device with a USB port, such as a laptop or desktop, without the need for an Internet or network connection.
Play Video Broadcast Tools Inc.
ProMix 12

It’s a mixing console for broadcast and audio production facilities that need an affordable compact solution.
  Play Video Henry Engineering
USB-AES Matchbox

“Skip the D-to-A converter or the S/PDIF-to-AES interface in addition to your semipro DAW audio interface,” the judges wrote. “This little blue box does it all.”
Play Video Burk Technology
Watchband Remote AM/FM/RDS Receiver

This receiver delivers Web-based market monitoring tools to engineers, managers and PDs.
  Play Video Inovonics Inc.
BandScanner, Model 512

A “Cool Concept” winner, this is the company’s product vision for a simple, inexpensive FM scanning receiver developed as a tool to evaluate FM band congestion and to log station ID parameters.
Play Video Burk Technology
AFD-1 Arc and Flame Detector

The device interfaces with a remote facility management system to notify personnel of electrical arcs and flame.
  Play Video JK Audio Inc.
Daptor Three Wireless Audio Interface

A professional audio interface that connects to the phone like any other Bluetooth Wireless Technology enabled headset.
Play Video Comrex Corp.
ACCESS Portable

Comrex is shipping its codec that allows high-quality, low-delay mono or stereo audio to be delivered over wired or wireless public Internet. A company that has led in the creation of the Internet codec niche.
  Play Video Kowa
PX10 Flash Memory Audio Player

Here’s a player that fills a familiar spot in your studio but uses convenient USB Flash memory drives and Compact Flash cards. No headaches replacing noisy or dead hard drives.
Play Video DaySequerra
Model M3 HD Radio Precision Multi-Monitor

A trio of separate AM, FM and HD Radio tuners in a 2RU box to monitor and alarm virtually everything.
  Play Video Nautel
Nautel Reliable HD Transport Suite

This technology aims to solve IBOC transport issues inherent in current HD delivery protocols.
Play Video NDS Ltd.
NDS RadioGuard

A “Cool Concept” recipient, this is an HD Radio conditional access system. The future of conditional access for radio has yet to play out; and with potential customers using the Internet for targeted and protected content distribution, we’ll watch with interest.
  Play Video NewTek Inc.TriCaster Studio with Pizazz Productions’ Auto-switch
It’s “a TV live truck that fits in a backpack,” helping radio stations shoot video of special events in and out of their air studios to put on their Web sites and live streams.
Play Video Omnia Audio
Omnia ONE

An audio processor for multicasting, satellite uplinks, Webcasting, podcasting, cellcasting and other coded audio channels.
  Play Video Roland Systems Group
RSS S-1608 Digital Snake System

A compact digital audio snake system that is portable and easy to install. It offers 16 audio channels in and eight out at 24-bit/96 kHz through a CAT-5 cable.
Play Video Sierra Automated Systems
Dees Digital Rubicon-SL Retro

“What’s more cool than this? An old-school rotary pot console with networked digital guts lets you build a modern radio studio with a retro vibe.”
  Play Video Telos Systems
Telos Zephyr/IP

A codec that combines RTP/UDP and TCP/IP streaming capabilities with MPEG coding to deliver broadcast-quality audio over IP connections.
Play Video TowerSwitch LLC
Talking Alert-Mini!

A solar-powered, outdoor audio messaging safety system that provides RF and tower site info to employees, contractors and visitors and optionally can detect unauthorized tower climbing activity.
  Play Video V-Soft Communications
AM-Pro Ver: 2.0

Software designed to perform the studies required of a spectrum designer in working with AM standard-band broadcast allocations and coverage.
Play Video Yellow Jacket Inc.
WASP AMS

WASP stands for “walkway access for special purposes.” The company calls this the first cable ramp to incorporate Barrier Free access for all by eliminating side rails and the associated trip hazards.
     
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