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		<title>Are the C-Band Changes the Death Knell for Radio?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Johnson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Karen Johnson&#8217;s article reinforces discussions a fellow engineer and I had in the 1980-90&#8217;s. The discussions addressed all broadcast, cell phone, amateur radio, and a common band plan for public service &#8211; government communications. Digital AM/FM/TV was in its infancy. Cell phone modulation was in a state of flux. Amateur Radio Operators and engineers were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FCC Makes Its First Move &#8211; Without the C-Band Alliance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2019 04:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is the fourth quarter of the year, so &#8211; yes &#8211; we were expecting some kind of movement in the C-Band/5G battle over Mid-band spectrum, but the information recently released by the FCC was a shock. In fact, it is not a stretch to say that those who have been following the proposed 5G [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Broadcast Engineering Was</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Schacht]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 04:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been at this game pushing 60 years and today while making up Type N jumper cables with RG214 for an STL project I started thinking: &#8220;If I had a dollar for every one of these connectors that I have assembled &#8230; &#8221; Well, I probably did but I have spent all of those [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AM Dying?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Northrup]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2019 04:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I started in radio at 13 on a Provisional license, 3rd Class at 14 and our Chief drove me 200 miles to Kansas City for my First and Radar Endorsement at 15. We were a little Ozarks 1kw daytimer but I remember feeling like I owned the airwaves. At 16 we added an FM, automated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2019 NPT EAS Test</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[20+ years in service and &#8220;still needs to be worked on&#8221; ?!?! A friend owns several stations in the mid south. According to his people the audio announcements were undecipherable. This is Radio folks. Unintelligible audio does not work for emergency messages. I suppose those folks with Babel Fish or FIPS decoders in their ears [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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