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		<title>When Radio Stations Were Portable</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donna Halper]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Donna Halper It was early 1923, and hundreds of entrepreneurs who had been bitten by the radio bug were setting up their own radio stations. Many of these pioneers had begun in ham radio, and were accustomed to building and creating the equipment they used. Unlike the stations owned by major corporations such as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Cannot Make This Up!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Mike Langner [November 2026] Broadcast engineering has definitely changed over the years. Instead of a tube-based transmitter (remember the glowing tubes?), we have solid-state transmitters than, in some cases, are just a couple of rack spaces. Instead of a studio with all sorts of audio gear, we have a computer. Mike Langner has been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Critter Control</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Welton]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[[November 2025] Many stations have mascots, or even station pets – a dog here, a cat there. Beyond that, animals are probably not the best tenants to have. Evicting them can be a pain. Jeff Welton offers some ideas on how to prevent them from coming in the first place. It is that time of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Getting Ready for Winter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Mishkind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[September 2021] Sure, we just hit “Fall,” but Winter is already giving previews in some areas. In any event, Fall gives us time to get things ready for Winter – and smoother operations. A lot of folks like to do Spring Cleaning, to recover from the events of the winter months, but it is equally [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FCC Proposals on Modernizing EAS: Where Industry Agrees …. and Where It Doesn’t</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Czarnecki]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D. [September 2026] The FCC record shows an industry ready to strengthen emergency alerting—but wary of reforms that could exchange familiar limitations for new and less visible points of failure. As the deadline for comments to the FCC’s latest EAS proceeding on modernizing EAS draws here, here is a rundown of industry [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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