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Let’s Break Down the Anti-HD Radio Arguments
It continues to amaze me how many knowledgeable broadcast engineers and industry observers persist...
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Avoid the AM IBOC Train Wreck Ahead
We've recently heard and read in some trade publications about a growing number of...
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Unspinning the LPFM Threat
Everyone saw this coming. The NAB, aka the National Association of Existing Broadcasters, came...
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Overhauling EAS
Fortunately some key government folks charged with emergency alerting and management appear to have...
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Sobering Realities for Engineers
The New Year is a good time to look back and ponder what we've...
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HD Radio Is Here to Stay
It took about 13 years for digital radio in the United States to evolve...
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Ibiquity Charts a New Course
In recent months, a mixed bag of both promising and disturbing news has flowed...
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Fixing the HD Radio Breakdown
We were just getting ready to leave the on-ramp and join all the other...
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Shifting the Paradigm: IBOC Is Not Your Father’s Radio
It's amazing what some think HD-R will deliver over analog in the way of...
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HD Radio Ship Sets Sail
Like a proud admiral smashing champagne over the bow of a sleek new battleship,...
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Reflections and Predictions on Satellite Radio
As we celebrate the holiday season and the close of 2002, the urge to...
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A Better Way to Implement AM IBOC
Will the controversial invention now called HD Radio steadily grow and gather more speed...
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Soaking up the waves. RF might hurt you.
Other than this obvious effect of tissue heating, we still don't know what the...
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Building a Better Model for Ibiquity
It's like we're all watching a troubled sci-fi movie: "The Day the IBOC World...
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A Bumpy Ride for Ibiquity at NAB2002
It wasn't quite what the Ibiquity Digital brass had been hoping for. The long-awaited...
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Deriving the Real IBOC Equation
My colleague Skip Pizzi spends a lot of time gazing at the crystal ball...
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Death Star Strikes Planet Earth Radio
We saw it coming. Some said it could never work. Others said no one...
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EAS: Not Even a Glass Half Empty
The Emergency Alert System. That morphed version of Conelrad and EBS held over from...
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Radio: The Longest Running Survivor Show
These are becoming rather dark days for radio. The deepening recession. Shrinking staffs with...
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LPFM: Idolatry for disbelievers
Guy Wire gets his share of e-mail from LPFM proponents who believe our existing...