tgorter [vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]WIFI is everywhere, WIFI is your lifeline in many places, where would we be without that wireless connection! How often do you look at the top of the screen on your mobile to see if you have at least 2 or 3 bars on the WIFI symbol? Are you really connected? … Read more
If trouble has hit, and the internet has stopped working or the connectivity has ground to snails-pace, just as your guest tries to access his email, or stream his favourite song… the alarm is rung in so many ways, and the rush to solve the mystery hampers all normal activity. In this article I’ll run … Read more
Most people are familiar with corrosion due to the visual aspect that it leaves behind. With superficial corrosion on the exposed superstructure leaving stains or bubbling of the paint, and the degradation of installed sacrificial anodes. The invisible danger though lies in the corrosion when it is not directly spotted and causes unexpected damage resulting … Read more
Technology moves at such a high pace these days, that interactions between systems is ever more difficult to predict and the resulting effects on performance or worse the potential for failure is harder to identify. It is undeniable that business need to stay at the leading edge with innovation and need to adapt to the … Read more
It’s 4am in the morning, 1st of September 1995, and I’m on board a converted fishing trawler, the S/V Rainbow Warrior acquired by Greenpeace after the original Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland harbour, 10 years ago. I hadn’t slept in 24 hours, and I knew the coming day wasn’t going to be a short … Read more
16/2 Amsterdam, Netherlands Tim Gorter’s passport is one of the most heavily stamped in the TV news industry. He lives out of a suitcase, sometimes not knowing where he’ll be tomorrow, let alone next week or next month. Tim Gorter He’s one of the small band of uplink engineers who travel to the world’s major … Read more
by Tim Gorter, Teletechnics Afield Sunday, August 08, 1999 In today’s fast moving newsgathering market, the wish for a lightweight portable SNG facility is becoming increasingly requested. Both Toko and Livewire have responded to this, with a unit enabling video transmission over portable satellite terminals. Using their encoding terminal and an Inmarsat HSD (High Speed … Read more