To Daystar TV Network--           08/18/14

I also am a Christian.  I get Daystar on channel 48-1 in Omaha, NE.  

Don't you know that your sound and picture are very much not synchronized with each other?  

I believe you are bringing shame on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ with your very bad technology.  

In addition to being a Christian author, with many books at Amazon.com, and at Barnesandnoble.com, I am also a retired Engineer.  

I was an Engineer for Christian TV station KHOF-TV, channel 30, in the Los Angeles area.  I have my lifetime General Radio Telephone Operator's License from the Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC.  

That Christian TV station no longer exists.  It became part of the PAX network, and then ION, I think.  

The technology has existed for more than half a century for synchronizing audio and video.  

Whichever of the two is in advance of the other, you need to delay it.  And it appears that you need to delay by a matter of seconds.  There are electronic components that are resistors.  There are capacitors.  There are inductors.  

There is an electronic component called a "delay line."  You can connect them in series to get a longer delay.  

Another way to get a delay is by using a tape recorder.  You record the signal on tape with a record head on the tape recorder, and then you read it back off almost right away with a read head.  

Arrange to have an idler wheel in the tape transport.  The read back head will read back with a delay proportional to the length of tape between the record head and the playback head.  Adjust the position of the idler wheel to change the amount of delay.  

I believe a home-made delay line can be made from coaxial cable, if you don't want to purchase a delay line.  

You would have a selector switch to select any of various positions along the length of the coaxial cable, which are tapped into by the selector switch.  

Before building the device, try a length of coaxial cable, perhaps one thousand feet long.  Put your signal in at one end of the cable, and take it out after one thousand feet, and measure the amount of delay.  

If your selector switch has ten positions, you would probably want a delay of about 1/10 second between positions of the selector switch.  

Frederick Hoehn
fredhoehn@outlook.com