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5/16 - On the Road with an ABIP Inspector - Mike Langner
516 - NAL Watch: Tower lights out for two years = $15k; overmod NOV
5/15 - Think Tank Alert: McDowell to Hudson Institute, Genachowski to Aspen
5/13 - NAL Watch: A major gift from the FCC to student-run stations
5/8 - Ten Things You Do Not Want the FCC to See - Scott Cason
5/7 - Auction 94 is over - was it a success?
5/6 - NAL Watch: The FCC cash register rings up another $46k
5/3 - NAL Watch: $25k for tower violations; $7 for fencing violation
5/2 - FCC PSHSB wants SECCs to review and update plans
5/2 - My View - The New Boss: Same as the Old Boss?
5/1 - DA Q&A: Dealing with Water Damage - Kurt Gorman
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5/1 - Tom Wheeler nominated to be new FCC Chairman
5/1 - NAL Watch: Two $10k Forfeiture Orders reject watery excuse
4/25 - Toward Safer Tower Lighting Systems - Richard Rudman
4/25 - Finding Unobtainium - where to look when you are stumped
4/22 - NAL Watch: NonComm station fined $3k for underwriting violations
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4/19 - SPX' Dielectric Communications to close broadcast division
4/18 - Circular Fencing in the field - Clay Freinwald
4/17 - Nautel's spring web broadcasts announced
4/10 - Philadelphia man gets jail for shining a laser at news chopper
4/10 - The Poor Man's Arbitron
4/23/13 - Fisher shareholders sue to stop $373+ million sale
2/27/13 - Historic KHJ towers dropped in LA
2/26/13 - NPR studies getting EAS alerts to deaf people
1/28/13 - Broadcasting Yearbook returns ... more or less
1/2/13 - FCC Commissioner Clyburn gets another five years
1/2/13 - Pirate transmitter locks car owners out for months
12/6/13 - Harris Broadcast has been sold
.. see all of the news items
12/12/12 - DA Q&A: Fixing the Problems - Kurt Gorman
11/28/12 - Critter Control - Jeff Welton
11/22/12 - Secure Fences - Michael Golchert
8/31/13 - Inspecting Your Towers - Who? When? How?
... more transmitter site articles
1/31/13 - An iOS Microphone Pre-amp - Mark Shander
9/28/13 - Quality Audio Anywhere - Mark Shander
8/27/13 - RDL's HR-MCP2 Dual Microphone Compressor - Mark Shander
... and more station operations articles
4/3/13 - The DEVA Band Scanner GPS - Alan Alsobrook
1/16/13 - The DEVA DB4004 - Richard Rudman
1/3/13 - The Telos Z/IP ONE - Dave Barnett
12/20/12- The Marathon Emergency Task Force Radio - Kevin Raper
9/20/12 - ExpressPCB makes great small project PCBs
8/9/12 - The CCrane Solar Observer
... More User Reports and Reviews
5/2/13 - Premiere Networks to distribute CAP messages
4/12/13 - FCC releases report on the National EAS Test
4/9/13 - A practical note about cell phone jammers
4/1/13 - FCC drops over a million indecency complaints
12/4/12 - The Public Inspection File
10/1/12 - The FEMA CAP Server down again
1/30/13 - Station at 561% of power; antenna 5 meters low
1/24/13 - Station unable to air EAS when unmanned = $8k
1/9/13 - The first NOV regarding the CAP EAS monitoring
12/4/12 - Public File = $20k; Deleted station $18k; FM xmtr $18k
9/20/12 - $31k in fines for tower lights, missing PIF files
... The Complete Enforcement Watch Page
9/28 - A Very Inexpensive Temperature Alarm - Richard Rudman
8/9 - The Well-Equipped Engineer's Truck - Richard Rudman
... more Maintenance Shift articles
1/8/13 - Do not let your password die with you & 5 other good IT practices.
10/16/12 - Checking it Out - The ZAGGfolio for the iPad
9/10/12 - The Radio Coverage Toolkit from Nautel - Chuck Kelly
... and more IT articles
4/1/13 - Telos Lunar Zephyr for the long haul - Clark Novak
4/2/13 - April Fools' joke makes two DJ April Fools for a day
2/21/13 - The Tower Leg that Melted
2/20/13 - White-out in Tucson
10/30/13- The Worst I've Ever Seen! - Finding VSWR in all the wrong places
10/11/13 - The Worst I've Ever Seen! - When the Lock on the Gate Isn't
... more War Stories and The Funny Side
11/13 - Jules Cohen passes away at 95
8/16 - Adventures of Mossman, Daven, & Weston - Bob Mayben
4/18 - NAB 2013 - Still more reports from the Show
4/18 - Richard Rudman's take on NAB2013
1/16/13 - CES 2013 makes news of interest to broadcasters
9/19/12 - IBC 2012 in Amsterdam; Nautel debuts LPTV Transmitter
... More Trade Show Reports
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