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BBG: Don’t Close Shortwaves, Improve Them!
The Broadcast Board of Governors has done enough damage to the U.S. public diplomacy.
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Zero In on RF Hot Spots
What better way to celebrate Groundhog Day than with a resolution to commit to...
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Editorial: Future Imperfect
The Second Report and Order on a next-generation Emergency Alert System finally was published...
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Who Let the Smoke Out, Uh, Uhhh?
I’m grateful for the hundreds of captions readers sent for our contest a few...
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Case Study: How Do You Lug Your Gear?
If like me you have been in the business for a few years and...
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We Need to Mend Some Fences
Broadcasters don’t want to pay more than they have to for content, so it’s...
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Editorial: On LPFM, FCC Acts Wisely But Raises More Questions
Low-power FM stations fill a public service niche. As small, decidedly local stations, they...
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Why Does SBE Subsidize the NFL?
Recently, the SBE sent out a press release announcing the renewal of its contract...
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FM-based Broadcast, WiFi Key to EAS
In recent years, local emergency management personnel have used radio and television broadcast stations,...
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Deedleheads Are Wiry & Scrappy
This collection of 25-pair CAT-5 Deedleheads lives on the desktop of Meg Buenting, a...
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A Crisis Is a Good Time to Be Carded
Imagine you’re the chief of a station in Madison, Wis. It’s summertime, peak tornado...
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Another View: Hey, AM HD-R Critics: Got a Better Idea?
As a market chief engineer who has installed HD-R systems on two AMs and...
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One View: Time for a Reality Check on IBOC
As an owner/engineer who has been around this crazy business since the ‘60s, I...
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Microwave Oven Tester Evaluates WAP Operation
Ed Dulaney is the market engineer for Crawford Broadcasting’s Denver cluster. He writes that...
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Battle for the Band: AM IBOC Under Siege
The interference fallout of full-time AM HD operations has been scattered and largely anecdotal....
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Hear It Now: IBOC Disappoints (Letter)
I made a series of short recordings at my cottage at Klinger Lake near...
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Lubricant Can Be Your Enemy
The beauty of LEDs is that they are solid-state devices that offer high shock...
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Editorial: AM IBOC in Distress?
Some people predicted an “IBOCalypse” when AM HD operations went full-time on Sept. 14....
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From the Editor: Who’s Speaking to the Students?
Two years ago I decided RW would present occasional articles profiling young engineers. I...
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Merger Ad Nauseum
We’ve made this point but we feel compelled to reiterate it in the wake...
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Commentary: Commit to ‘Staggering’ Potential of 3G
Three years ago, the hot buzzword in media was “convergence.” This referred not only...
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Eliminate Pesky Peromyscus Leucopus
Peromyscus leucopus is the white-footed mouse, which seems to love nesting in phasors and...
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Rational Discussion or Luddite Rants?
“Just taking a run-through of the latest Radio World issue, Oct. 10, and what...
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Seeing Radio’s Challenges Clearly
As the old adage goes, hindsight is 20/20. What radio needs is more clarity...
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Big Oil: Primary Issue Is Public Safety
The oil company makes it clear that its primary issue is the threat to...
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‘Bellwether’ BE Makes Some Changes
Broadcast Electronics is approaching its 50th anniversary in 2009 and I was pleased to...
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Tackle the Cell Phone Interface
Darren admits to a certain amount of pleasure in hacking apart and/or destroying anything...
Roots of Radio
The General Electric Phasitron FM Transmitter
In the early 1950s, many saw the emergence of FM on a new band...
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Fiber Optics Provides Site Safety
The module senses a break in the fiber optic loops, which would be cut...
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Retired CE Tackles Toughest Job Yet
After I retired from my position as chief engineer for KFI(AM) and KOST(FM) in...
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Clip and Save: NOTAM Info You Can Use
Greg Muir of Cherry Creek Radio offers additional links regarding the new FAA Automated...
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This Is Not a Test: Freinwald Honored
When broadcast leaders recently realized they needed to meet with regulatory and weather officials...
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Premium Subscription Service FAQs
WQED(FM) is a fine arts radio service for Pittsburgh that is, frankly, just getting...
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Ducting Isn’t Figment of Engineer’s Mind
Perhaps one of the most difficult tasks I experienced as a chief engineer was...
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Article Skips Second Coding Family
Having taken some time to carefully read through Skip Pizzi’s article “Moving On Up...
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Editorial: Try Something
Franklin Roosevelt’s administration was only weeks old when a newspaper reporter asked him how...
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Keep Racks Organized, Toolboxes Dry
Last issue Mark Ward offered a warning to broadcasters to check the phone number...
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Conditional Access Is in the Public Interest
There is an issue brewing in the radio industry and it revolves around nothing...
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A Sense of Emergency
Winding its way through the Senate is the First Response Broadcasters Act of 2007....
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Trees Don’t Improve AM Propagation
An important reminder to have the transmitter field mowed regularly. Even if this area...
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Harris Swims in Some New Channels
“Rather than be a mile wide and an inch deep, we want to go...
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iPhone: Smart Phone Worth Waiting For
The panting over the most hyped smart phone on the planet will subside but...