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With the prices dropping, hopefully everyone has a DMM in their toolbox.

Construction supply companies can really come in handy when you're building a transmitter site.

Fall is a wet time of year, and you may have been challenged recently...

Obtaining the longest life from a high-power tube - whether a triode or tetrode...

Mark Ward of WTSN(AM) in Dover, N.H., writes on the subject of Sage Endecs....

At least once in your engineering career, move a transmitter...Not you personally, mind you....

Kinko's and other copy centers can do marvelous things. Copying your large transmitter schematics...

Here's an inexpensive add-on that will help you sleep at night and enjoy long...

Charlie Rohde is an old DFW, Texas, broadcast engineer who'd gotten tired of calls...

If you want to move big rectangular devices with care, consider people who do...

A way to make Cool Edit Pro version 2.0 and higher, including Adobe Audition,...

If you don't have surge suppression at your studio and transmitter site, make it...

We've heard the phrase "out of sight, out of mind." Sometimes it refers to...

Two-thirds of the way into spring, it's time - past time - to take...

The Public Inspection File is one of the big inspection items, so don't blow...

I've only worked with one engineer, now many years retired, who made soldered RCA...

Danger comes in many forms in our profession. Some situations might seem harmless.

Let's have a "can you spot what's wrong" photo.

Bob Gonsett's CGC Communicator newsletter had an interesting item recently, about an electric mattress...

Given the catastrophic calamities experienced by some engineers over the past couple of years,...

This series of photos is a good example of why an engineering due-diligence inspection...

Given the catastrophic calamities experienced by engineers over the past couple of years, reliable...

Every engineer has recurring needs for small electronic parts from time to time, as...

A number of years ago, I picked up what has become an engineering classic,...

To say the weather throughout the country has been bizarre recently is an understatement....

Most satellite receivers are located inside dark equipment racks. I've had numerous suggestions from...

Maintaining order in your station's computer systems can be as difficult as keeping the...

Multiple sites or cluster stations usually mean multiple satellite feeds and their associated multiple...

I recently spoke with an engineer who told me of nests of black snakes...

Larry Schropp of Schropp Electronic Services was called in to work with Winston Hawkins,...

The new engineer made his first trip to the transmitter site, camera in hand....

What a season of storms! Severe damage to both sites and equipment.

Aaron Read at Broadcast Signal Lab in Massachusetts has discovered a free, nifty Web...

We've all visited transmitter sites where the grass, vegetation, weeds, vines and trees seem...