A student engineer at an Ohio university is going to have quite the announcement at their next station executive board meeting.
Telos Alliance has selected Wright State University’s 106.9 WWSU(FM) as the recipient of a Omnia.11 FM+HD audio processor. The school is located in Fairborn, Ohio, not far from Dayton.
The winning entry was submitted by Larkin Smith, WWSU’s student engineer and general manager.
As we had mentioned previously, Telos Alliance partnered with the College Radio Foundation, asking college radio students, engineers and faculty across the country to explain why they needed new audio processing for their campus radio stations.
In a release, Lori Quicke of the College Radio Foundation said that there were many worthy entries.
But Smith, a management information systems major at Wright State, explained the station’s needs in detail.
“WWSU needs the Omnia.11 because we do not have a true modern audio processor, and our listeners can hear the difference every time they tune in,” Smith wrote in his entry.
Its transmitter and tower equipment sustained major damage in 2008 when the remnants of Hurricane Ike hit the Miami Valley hard. One of the casualties was the station’s Omnia.3 processor, leaving the station with only 1990s-era limiters to manage its signal.
Telos Alliance said it was quite pleased to award WWSU the Omnia.11, adding that college radio is vital to training the air talent, engineers and programmers of the future.
Smith, an expected class of 2027 graduate, has been part of WWSU’s staff for the last two years.
With any luck, the processor will be on the air before the spring semester concludes.
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