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		<title>Building A Secure Network For EAS</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Rolf Taylor [August 2026] The FCC has become increasingly unnerved by the repeating hacking intrusions into normal program transmissions. Worried that this could affect delivery of information and instructions on the Emergency Alert System (EAS) during an emergency situation the FCC lit a short fuse in an effort to promote more secure networks at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remembering Those Color Codes</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[January 2025] Sometimes it is easy to remember the colors of wire used for connections, especially if there are only a few – black and red, for example. But if you have to remember a bunch of wires, it gets more complicated. Rolf has a mnemonic for you. The color codes evolved with the evolution [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Registered Plug? No, It’s A Jack!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[January 2025] Have you ever wondered how some of the connectors you use every day got their names? Some are easy, like the DB9 or the DB25, for example, but why is the RJ45 so named? Rolf has been looking into this topic. Back when the Bell System was the mother of all US Telephony, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tech Support is a Two-Way Street</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[June 2023] At some point, almost any piece of equipment will have problems – even if they have operated perfectly for years and years. Chances are good that you will eventually need some help from “technical support.”  With today’s broadcast engineer ever approaching critical overload, the need for support assistance from manufacturers is greater than [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dante Solves the Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[September 2022] There are several ways to get audio from here to there; phone lines (where they still exist), STLs, Internet, fiber, etc. Of course, the last two cannot handle analog audio. So, you need to get it into – and back out of – the digital domain. Our problem was the need to send [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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