Guest Commentaries
Is the FCC Dropping the Ball on Directional Translators?
Crazy patterns are approved but never built, why?
Larry Langford
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Chicago Translator Concerns
Will the Windy City’s million dollar translator twins be a victim of new interference...
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Response to Langford: Clarifying AM Performance Parameters
To improve AM there needs to be a common understanding of what the problems...
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Response to Langford: For AM Try This Approach
Bob Orban notes that AM isn’t high fidelity but broadcasters can still try to...
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Response to Larry Langford: The NRSC Reaffirmed the AM Curve
NRSC committee Chairman John Kean outlines work the group is considering to improve AM...
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AM Preemphasis — Time for a New Curve?
Larry Langford insists that AM can sound better and without additional regulations or specifications
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Time for Translator Rules Overhaul?
Translators have been a success. Can more be done with them?
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Calibrating NRSC Measurements With Business
Yes, a balance needs to be struck but the requirements are not superfluous
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NRSC Measurements Are About More Than the Mask
Don’t forget harmonic suppression, faulty equipment and more
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Why the Fuss Over AM Proofs?
One technology supplier says we’re holding onto the past for no good reason
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Larry’s Right! NRSC Measurements Are Unneeded
More on NRSC: Uberecken says the practice is outmoded and not needed for most...
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Keep AM NRSC Proofs and Add FM Proofs
Richard Rudman responds to Larry Langford’s NRSC proof repeal suggestion
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FCC-Required NRSC Proofs Are Important
A broadcast engineer disagrees with Larry Langford’s call to do away with the annual...
Columns and Views
Let’s Toss Another Expensive and Useless Rule!
The seemingly obsolete NRSC mask measurement for AMs is a waste of time and...
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AM: Some Engineers Just Don’t Know How to Do It
I would rather lose a bit on the fringe than lose everyone in the...
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Subaru Makes a Positive Move on AM
Could it be that car radio makers are starting to take a second look...
News and Business
Engineer Challenges FCC’s Rubber-stamp of a Licensee’s Applications
Centro Cristiano apparently will no longer pursue the license