Whenever a broadcast engineer sees a lightning storm, the first thought that comes to mind is about the tower at the transmitter site sticking its “nose” into the atmospheric display of natural power. A little less obvious but important, is the effect on the incoming power grid. Is there anything that can protect […]

If you use email, chances are great that you get a dose of spam every day. Is there a simple way to prevent the majority of it? Is it worth the effort – or is he value of email permanently tainted. One of the benefits of being retired is that I have […]

Nautel is working hard to get past the holdups in getting the new HTML5 transmitter control app working in all the transmitters. Until then, a few traps can cause issues. Richard Rudman shows a trick to get past one of the problems.  If anyone running Apple MontereyOS has trouble entering the letter “e” […]

Winter is Flu Season. With the addition of the Covid virus, a lot of people take seriously the need to keep the work and home environment clean and safe. Here is a compact product you can carry and sanitize surfaces you touch. It is hard to escape the daily news of more infections […]

Probably the majority of stations no longer have turntables in the control room. However, many do have them – and many more in the production room, to either load songs or sound effects into the automation, or to audition part of the station’s library. But, when a stylus gets bent or worn out, […]

There are several ways to get audio from here to there; phone lines (where they still exist), STLs, Internet, fiber, etc. Of course, the last two cannot handle analog audio. So, you need to get it into – and back out of – the digital domain. Our problem was the need to send […]

Sometimes it is the little things that we forget to notice and handle, almost until it is too late. How do you handle this one? In later Winter, as the snow goes away, a lot of places are dealing with very dry air. Yes, we also could focus on the dry parts of […]

When a listener cannot hear a station due to interference of any kind, it is a serious issue. After all, listeners are ratings, and ratings are money. Tracking down any intermittent problem can be a very frustrating task. Complaints of intermittent interference are particularly irksome, especially when they seem to be localized in an […]

Do any of your applications depend upon Flash? If that is so, you will want to be ready for the End of Support – even rejection of Flash applications – by software operating systems. No, we are not talking about “The Flash,” the DC Comic’s characters who managed to gain the ability to […]

The further we move from the technology of the last century, the more difficult it can be to find parts – or even manuals and schematics. Danny Boyer has some information that may help if you are trying to re-crystal an older piece of gear. Recently, someone asked for help in acquiring crystals […]