News Items:

Transmitter Site Operations:

• LPFM and Translators Hit New High Totals
• FCC Chair makes to top of 131-foot stick
• Is AM Improvement Really Possible?
• Chairman Ajit Pai
• Is the FCC Killing off AM Synchronous Operations?
• FCC Announces Deadline for 2016 Fees
• SDRBA merges into SCBA
• .. see all of the news items

• Real World Justification for Regular Testing - Burt Weiner
• Cell Co's and LTE interference issues
• Keeping Stuff Out of Transmitters - Gary Peterson
• Cell Companies and LTE interference .
• When a Disaster hits, how will you.
• Weeding Out Tower SIte Problems - Dave Dybas
• Site Security FLAP: P is for Presence - Kevin Kidd
• Analog FM Measurements in an HD Radio Universe - Mark Grant
•  ... more transmitter site articles

Studio Operations:

Checking it Out:

• A History of Audio Processing - Jim Somich
• Keeping Control of Your EAS Logs - Mark Voris
• High School LPFM Station Trains Radio's Next Gen
• Save money with phone audit - Stephen Rutherford
• Free Cable - Steve Lampen
• Choosing between STL and IP Radio Links - Fred Francis
• Keep the Flu out, keep the Staff in
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• ... and more station operations articles

• SOUNDOT AF1 Radio for iPhones
• RFEngineers' FM Guardian - Alan Alsobrook
• Trilithic EASyCAP - Dana Puopolo
• Adobe Audition CC - Bob Burnham
• The Brother J-995DW INKvestment Tank printer
• CCrane' Senta Ally
• Lawo R3LAY - Dana Puopolo
• the Inovonics 531N FM monitor
• Inovonics 525N - Alan Alsobrook
• Solving the SX Metering Problem - Mike Patton
• JUSTIN 808 Fixes HD Blending - Jim Wood
• Inovonics' DAVID IV Audio Processor - Dana Puopolo
• The GatesAir Flexiva FAX20
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• ... More User Reports and Reviews

FCC Rules and EAS Issues:

Enforcement Watch:

• LPRM gets NOV for unauthorized move
• "D" station warned it is a pirate/translator way off
• "DKCKY" - a string of license cancellations
• Misuse of EAS tones = $55k + compliance  pgm
• Florida LPFM Gets License, Pays $2k
• Off-air gets $5k fine, short renewal, and scolding
• Ham gets $1k fine for failing to ID
• Block Access to Public File: $15k and short renewal 
• ... The Complete Enforcement Watch Page

The Maintenance Shift:

IT issues:

• VOMs and DMMs That Are Standards - Bill Weeks
• Real World Reason for Regular Testing - Burt Weiner
• Build a Good Maintenance Checklist
• Alternatives to Wired Ethernet - Dana Puopolo
• Feeding Clean Air to Your Transmitter - Jeff Welton
• Keeping Stuff Out of Transmitter - Gary Peterson
• Replacing Dangerous Air Filters - Randy Wells
• Solving the “B” Battery Problem - Mike Bafaro
• Contract Engineering 101 Clay Freinwald
• Finding an Elusive Power Supply - Gary Glaenzer
• Solving the SX Metering Problem - Mike Patton
• A Quick Test for Power FETs - Burt Weiner
• A great video instruction on Contactor Maintenance
• Feeding Clean Air to the Transmitter - Jeff Welton
• VSWR Calibration Techniques - Stephen Rutherford
•  
• ... more Maintenance Shift articles         

• Augmenting Your Digital Tool Box - Stu Casteel
• Digital Tools You Should Find Useful - Wheatstone Tech Guys
• Keep The Bad Guys Out - Jeff Welton
• Building your own Firewall - Bill Putney
• Understanding Internet Firewalls - Bill Putney
• Original iPhone now a museum piece
• Alternative Wired Ethernet Networks - Dana Puopolo
• Combating Malware in the Studio - Kevin Trueblood
• Dealing with Ransomware and other Disasters
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• ... and more IT articles
  
   

Pure Tech:

War Stories and The Funny Side:

• A Closer Inspection of Audio over IP Links - Keyur Parikh
• Long Term System Survival from EMP - Glen Clark
• Ron Nott discusses lightning dissipation arrays
• The Difference & Its Importantance Tom Osenkowsky
• Playing with the Nielsen PPM - Dana Puopolo
• A Very Short AM B'cast Antenna - Grant Bingeman
• Can the Rigol do NRSC Measurements? - Burt Weiner
• Negative Towers are Just Numbers  - Mike Patton
• The Folded Unipole - Ron Nott
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• ,,, more Pure Tech       

• A Tenuous Program Link
• Putting a Cord to Good Use
• A Trip to Another Continent - on a PC Board!
• A Transmitter Site Access Issue - Tom Epperson
• Chicago Radio Station Knocked Off Air ... by Bed Bugs
• Talking Like an Old Hand - Clay Freinwald
• Doing the EBS Dance - Dave Hultsman 
• When RFR Protection Runs Amok
• Locating the Church of the FCC
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•  ... more War Stories and The Funny Side

 People and History:

Trade Show Reports:

• Eimac and Continental's Major Fiasco - Reid Brandon
• Jack Moseley Passes Away
• A History of Audio Processing - Jim Somich
• A Radio Showcase Built, then Unbuilt - Margaret Bryant
• Dielectric Communications at 75
• When Broadcasting Really Began - Donna Halper
• What you need to know about Retirement - Gil Gillivan
• 50 Year Flashback - FM Stereo - Bob Carpenter
• HPH Part 4: - M/SP Telefarm - Steve Brown
•  
• ... More Obits and other history

• NAB 2018 Radio Show Southern View - Alan Alsobrook
• NAB 2017 reports
• Walking the Floor: CES 2017
• FCC Commissioners promise changes for broadcast
• Fall Product releases
• NAB 2016 - Multiple reports
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• ... More Trade Show Reports