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		<title>Don’t Do That: Slugs Should Be Left In The Garden</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[July 2022] Gary Minker likes to point out that a good broadcast engineer is someone who knows what he does not know. By knowing when to pull his hands out and call for help, problems can be solved before things really go south. If you are in the Broadcast Engineering business as an employee or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Unipole Keeps Towers Useful</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[February 2022] AM stations are under pressure. Sometimes the land is worth more than the station. Other times, the question might be “we have all these towers, what are they good for?” A New Mexico station answered the question using a unipole. KKBE (910) in Roswell, NM had a problem. A unipole helped solve it. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[April 2020] For years, there has been a search for a way to reduce the costs of AM broadcast antennas, both from the standpoint of construction costs and land costs. There is a solution at hand. Many AM radio stations are now suffering from high costs of land and tower construction/maintenance, especially at a time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[November 2018] Early this month a fire at the Tiger Mountain broadcast site destroyed the antenna for six Seattle market FM’s.ERI sent a two-man crew to inspect the damaged antenna. This is the report on the incident from ERI President Tom Silliman. November 20, 2018 The ERI team has returned from Seattle where they measured [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FM Antenna Systems Maintenance: Preventing Signs of Impending End of Life Part 2</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[November 2018] We continue with Tom Silliman’s discussion on the things that can cause problems with FM antennas, and how proper maintenance can prevent those problems. Who better than the manufacturer to help up keep the transmission system going at full speed? Here Tom tells you what to do and why. What is involved in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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