CH 03

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Transmission 06 · 2022

DEAD_AIR

Outage monitoring dashboard for regional broadcast relays.

View source →github.com/amercer/dead-air
DEAD_AIR interface
FIG.01 — DEAD_AIR index capture
Role
Solo — design & build
Stack
Svelte · D3 · SQLite
Timeline
Sep — Dec 2022
Status
Handed over · 2024

// Briefing

A regional network learns a relay is down when listeners phone in — which for a night transmitter can be hours of dead air before anyone official knows. The relays report telemetry; nothing was listening to it for silence.

DEAD_AIR listens. Every relay's carrier and audio level lands in SQLite, a Svelte board draws the region as a strip of signal traces, and a flatline pages the duty engineer before the first listener reaches for the phone.

// Highlights

  • — Detection in seconds, not hours
  • — One board for 30 relays
  • — Runs on the transmitter-site PC
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