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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.
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...
A discussion developed at one of my NAB transmitter workshops about cleaning these specialized...
The dog days of summer upon us and so are all the cooling deficiencies...
Jeff Loughridge is the market engineer for Infinity in Washington. He and his staff...
Summertime is construction time. If you maintain an AM and the signal seems a...
From the "why didn't I think of that" department: Have you spotted the new...
We highlighted a station in Thomas Jefferson's hometown of Charlottesville, Va., a while back....
Our recent stories about technically challenged operators generated a number of replies recounting similar...
Scott Dennis runs InfoTech Alaska in Anchorage. He tells about a studio technician who...
This story is true. Names are omitted to protect the innocent. A medium-market chief...
College students scrounge for furniture. Usually they end up with hand-me-downs from home or...
For too many years, engineers have included the title of plumber, electrician, even exterminator...
ISDN is a mainstay for many stations - so much so that most stations...
Fred Greaves, Jr., is director of engineering for Susquehanna Radio Corp., and got a...
A few months ago, engineers visiting Dave Biondi's radio-tech list serve on broadcast.net discussed...
I've been fortunate during the past year to receive and share a number of...
Maintaining older transmitters can be fun, if you know what you're looking for.