Workbench

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...

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...

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....

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...

Here are two Web sites you'll find useful.

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.

... doesn't mean he knows the law!

If you maintain an older tower, lit with traditional red lighting, you might want...

How does that nursery rhyme go, "Hickory, dickory, doc-tor ... the mouse climbed up...

Tower light monitoring is still high on the "hit lists" of the FCC and...

Budgeting; doing more with less; saving money...These are the "new" rules of radio engineering

We'll start off with a simple yet effective tip from Fred Greaves Jr., director...

John Stortz of the Moody stations in Florida protects his VRC-2000 remote control from...

Like it or not, at some point in your career you'll probably need to...

Now that summer is in full swing, consider adding a safety "insurance" tray designed...