RF Engineering
NUG@NAB Ready to Roll in Las Vegas in April
The free event to be held on the second day of the 2022 NAB...
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Business and Law
Late Renewal Could Cost Arizona Station $3,000
Sonora Broadcasting filed a license renewal application for KAPR months after the deadline
Industry
Engineer Tells FCC to “Wake up and Smell the Coffee”
He urges commission to remember how much broadcasters are doing with limited resources
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ABA Engineering Academy Plans July ABIP Training Seminar
The two-day seminar is open to engineers from all states, whether or not they...
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Lyons Re-elected as AFCCE President
Association has announced the election results from its June 22 annual meeting.
Industry
What’s the Difference Between Broadcast and Sound Engineering?
UK broadcast engineer offers some insights into her career and the broadcast sector
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NATE Introduces New Spanish Language Resource
It’s a translation of the fourth edition of the “NATE Tower Climber Fall Protection...
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FCC Wants to Reclaim Part of 2.5 GHz Band
Educational Broadcast Service spectrum to be used for LTE and 5G
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KKLS Tower “Decapitated” by Blizzard
This isn’t the first time South Dakota's Results Radio has lost a tower to...
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GatesAir Debuts Program to Teach RF Fundamentals
New training initiative intended to fill in gaps for younger engineers with IT backgrounds
Industry
Rackley Calls on FCC, NAB to Address Interference Challenges
“Joint Keynote Address” featured several past winners of the NAB Engineering Achievement Award
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Not Attending NAB Show? Munn-Reese Has Some Suggestions
If you're unsure how to fill your time when your colleagues are in Vegas,...
Industry
FCC Schedules Auction for Mutually Exclusive Translator Applications
The auction will begin May 15
Industry
Weekly Tech Reminders: Translators, Repack, NAB Show & More
An excerpt from this week’s Monday Morning Coffee and Technical Notes
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California’s Eggman Supports Right to Repair
The Golden State joins 17 other states with similar legislation in the works
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WATCH: Engineers in Action
Broadcast engineers don't have it easy, but the work is critical to keep listeners...
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APRE Hands Out Four Scholarships to Attend 2018 PREC
Also includes APRE membership for one year
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Westwood One Readies for PyeongChang 2018
This is how the broadcaster makes sure U.S. fans across the world can tune...
Industry
Gifts for Engineers
If you are a broadcast engineer, your life has been a pin-ball game of...
Industry
AM Revitalization Efforts, Part Three
We now find ourselves a couple months downstream from the release of the Third...
Industry
Broadcasting Is Intimate — and Will Become Interactive
Radio was (and in many stations still is) all about customer relations
Industry
Put the “A” in “EAS”
Emergency communications are a complex topic, and an arena filled with special interests
Industry
Handle the Nuisance of Intermodulation Distortion
Systems that start talking together are kind of like the neighbors on either side...
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Under the Hood
In the era of components and wires, every piece of equipment came with documentation...
Industry
The Coming IT Apocalypse
The equation is simple: Maybe waste resources or risk being culpable when an IT...
Industry
Wanted: Broadcast Gypsies
Sometimes, while we’re good with the status quo — ownerships and goals change and...
Industry
2017 NAB Show in Retrospect
The Wandering Engineer is lucky enough (or unlucky enough) to be above the line...
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Loving the Manual
When hiring broadcast engineers, there are two particulars to which we give special attention.
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What To Do About Bad Monitor Points
In a more golden age of AM broadcasting, problematic monitor points struck fear into...
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Growing Old on the Radio
The Wandering Engineer first met Garrison Keillor in that most intimate of settings… on...
Industry
Synchronous AM Boosters Could Help Revive Senior Band
The concept of synchronous operation was initially suggested in 1924 by Frank Conrad of...
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Historians All
There are a lot of tasks in my informal job description that don’t appear...
Industry
Translators Are Still Top of Mind in 2017
Over the past couple of years, we have circled back around to the topic...
Industry
Opening a Window
Electronic media always involve a chicken and egg scenario in which the consumer has...
Industry
The Weaponized Internet
Media is a powerful tool for good and for evil — radio, especially so....
Industry
Radio Has Power Not Measured in Watts
One of the things, if not the thing, that makes working in radio worthwhile...
Industry
Introducing FM Class C4
There has been much discussion lately about a proposed new class of FM stations
Industry
From Trade to Profession
In the future, this will be a better profession than it currently is
Industry
The Allure of Tall Things
I like towers. Eiffel tower, CN Tower, Sutro, Freedom Tower, Devil’s Tower, Tower of...