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		<title>Why Is 50 Ohms The Standard?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[October 2025] Many of the things technical people deal with have names or origins that are not necessarily clear or have been forgotten. This is one of a series answering the question: Why is it? In this installment, why is the coax impedance in broadcast usually 50 Ohms. Although there are different impedances needed for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Visualizing Antenna Fields</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[October 2020] Computers have come a long way in the past 40 years. Interactive applications can show quite a bit about how an antenna will perform. Yet, real world measurements and field checks can sometimes provide a surprise or two. Learning more and being able to visualize how antennas radiate can go a long way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[March 2020] Most engineers think of Cat 5 and Cat 6 cable as useful for data and control, but not audio. Sometimes, the thinking is that the lack of shielding means the cable is not very useful for clean audio. But, as Steve Lampen explains the history of Category cables, you may want to think [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[January 2017] Most broadcaster engineers try hard to present a signal as clean as possible, so the listener can hear the audio as close to the way the artist intended. However, it takes hard work, especially on the program audio to be successful. Even small differences in the audio as it moves though the program [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Playing with the Nielsen People Meter</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[November 2016] Give a broadcast engineer a piece of gear and the first thing he wants to do is open it up and find out what is inside. Then the next thing is to find out what he can do with the product &#8211; even things not intended originally by the manufacturer. This time Dana [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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