Ron Schacht – The Broadcasters' Desktop Reference https://www.thebdr.net Edited by Barry Mishkind - the Eclectic Engineer Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:33:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.thebdr.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bdr-favicon-blue.png Ron Schacht – The Broadcasters' Desktop Reference https://www.thebdr.net 32 32 218473857 The Evolution In Broadcast Technology https://www.thebdr.net/the-evolution-in-broadcast-technology/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:33:41 +0000 https://www.thebdr.net/?p=15919 Ron Schacht author

[August 2025] Anyone who has entered the broadcast industry in the past ten years sees it in a totally different way compared with …

]]> 15919 Radio In The Good Old Days https://www.thebdr.net/radio-in-the-good-old-days/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:00:16 +0000 https://www.thebdr.net/?p=15248 Ron Schacht author

[April 2025] Radio today is very much different than several decades ago. And not just because studios have become little more than a …

]]> 15248 Another Lost Art: Soldering https://www.thebdr.net/another-lost-art-soldering/ Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:59:18 +0000 https://www.thebdr.net/?p=13861 Ron Schacht author

[April 2024] A lot of equipment is not modular. Ron Schacht still finds himself called in to work on older gear and devise …

]]> 13861 Kapton Tape Can Save The Day https://www.thebdr.net/kapton-tape-can-save-the-day/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:06:38 +0000 https://www.thebdr.net/?p=13030 Ron Schacht author

[April 2024] Much equipment is not modular, and operators are expected to swap modules to fix many issues. But that is not always …

]]> 13030 Old Guys, Experience, and Harris Flame Throwers https://www.thebdr.net/old-guys-experience-and-harris-flame-throwers/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:22:27 +0000 https://www.thebdr.net/?p=11598 Ron Schacht author

[January 2024] Robert Frost said: “Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.” As Ron Schacht points out, this often is how broadcast …

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