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| TOPICS | ||||
| THE LATEST VIDEOS | ||||
| Watch Out for That ... ! - Gordon Carter - 9/22/22 | Video | |||
| Follow the Audio, and The C-Level Preprocessor- 9/15/22 | Video | |||
| Test Gear that Will Not Break the Budget - 9/8/22 | Video | |||
| Making Sure Your Transmitter is in Compliance - 9/1/22 | Video | |||
| Finding Help When You Need It - 8/25/22 | Video | |||
| Moving to a Digital Studio - Clark Novak, LAWO - 8/19/22 | Video | |||
| Building a Great Monitor System - Dana Puopolo - 8/11/22 | Video | |||
| Can an SFN Save AM - John Kean - 7/28/22 | Video | |||
| Dielectric Pylon Antennas and FM DA Software- Nicole Starett and Connor Pittman - 7/21/22 | Video | |||
| The Next Best Thing Tour- 7/14/22 | Video | |||
| AUDIO CONSOLES | ||||
| iQs - Kirk Harnack 9/23/21 | Video | |||
| Audio Consoles move from analog to digital - Tag Borland (Logitek) (12/3/20) | Video | |||
| AM TRANSMISSION | ||||
| Can an SFN Save AM - John Kean - 7/28/22 | Video | |||
| Multiplexing AMs - Tom King - 1/28/22 | Video | |||
| Digital AM at WFAS - Conrad Trautmann 10/7/21 | Video | |||
| High Efficiency Broadband Antenna - Grady Moates (11/12/20) | Video | |||
| High Efficiency BroadBand Antenna with Grady Moates ( 4/30/20) | Video | |||
| Method of Moments - Ben Dawson & Stephen Lockwood (1/21/21) | Video | |||
| Digital AM Operations - Dave Kolesar (10/8/20) | Video | |||
| NRSC Measurements with Burt Weiner (5/28/20) | Video | |||
| AUDIO & VIDEO STREAMING | ||||
| StreamGuys - Robert Minnix (7/15/21) | Video | |||
| Handling Streaming Audio - Joh Kean and Corny Gould 10/28/21 | Video | |||
| HLS Audio - Greg Ogonowski - StreamS (3/18/21) | Video | |||
| Multi-Cam Systems - Mary Ann Seidler/Stan Walbert (9/10/20) | Video | |||
| Right Streaming Choices - Mike Erickson (Wireless Media) (7/9/20) | Video | |||
| RadioDJ - Greg Ogonowski (6/24/21) | Video | |||
| AUDIO PROCESSING | ||||
| The Audio Chameleon - Corny Gould/Mike "Catfish" Dosch - 3/10/22 | Video | |||
| Omnia 11 V4 and the Silvio Clipper - Frank Foti - 1/21/22 | Video | |||
| Audio Processing, Streaming, and Podcasts - Cornelius Gould (10/29/20) | Video | |||
| The XPN-AM Audio Processor - Bob Orban (7/16/20) | Video | |||
| Audio Processing vs Multipath - Frank Foti (Telos Alliance) (6/18/20) | Video | |||
| CODECS | ||||
| Getting the best out of Comrex BRIClink Codecs- Mike Freidman & Chris Crump - 6/23/22 | Video | |||
| Solving the Problems of audio over IP- Tony Gervasi - 2/17/22 | Video | |||
| webRTC and Opal - Chris Crump - Comrex 10/14/21 | Video | |||
| APT MPX Links - Tony Peterle (3/11/21) | Video | |||
| The Tieline Gateway - Doug Ferber/Jacob Daniluck (2/11/21) | Video | |||
| CallMe IP codec family - Mike Dosch/Ian Prowse (2/25/21) | Video | |||
| Blade 4 - Jay Tyler (Wheatstone) (8/27/20) | Video | |||
| IP audio transport with Tony Gervasi (GatesAir) (5/21/20) | Video | |||
| CYBER SECURITY | ||||
| EAS and Station IT Security - Bill Robertson - DASDEC - - 8/4/22 | Video | |||
| IT Security at the transmitter - Jeff Welton- 2/3/22 | Video | |||
| Cybersecurity - Wayne Pecena (8/26/21) | Video | |||
| Station IT Security with Fred Gleason (Paravel) (4/23/20) | Video | |||
| DIGITAL TRANSMISSION | ||||
| ATSC3- Dave Folsom - 4/14/22 | Video | |||
| Digital AM at WFAS - Conrad Trautmann 10/7/21 | Video | |||
| Digital AM Operations - Dave Kolesar (10/8/20) | Video | |||
| EAS | ||||
| DASDEC-III and new EAS features- Bill Robertson - 4/21/22 | Video | |||
| Reviewing the NPT (8/12/21) | Video | |||
| EAS for the NPT (7/22/21) | Video | |||
| A Chat with the FEMA - Mark Lucero (4/29/21) | Video | |||
| NWS Partical County Activations - Schott, Berc, Hart (4/22/21) | Video | |||
| FEMA uses IPAWS to link non-weather alerts to NWR - Ed Czarnecki (9/17/20) | Video | |||
| FCC ISSUES | ||||
| Inside the ABIP - Mike Langner (8/19/21) | Video | |||
| FCC Exposure Rules - Raj Mathur (5/27/21) | Video | |||
| ABIP and you - Ken Benner (9/17/20) | Video | |||
| FM ANTENNAS AND TRANSMISSION | ||||
| Update on Nautel AUI and VX transmitters- Matt Herdon and Mike Woods - 6/2/22 | Video | |||
| Dielectric Pylon Antennas and FM DA Software- Nicole Starett and Connor Pittman - 7/21/22 | Video | |||
| Update on Nautel AUI and VX transmitters- Matt Herdon and Mike Woods - 6/2/22 | Video | |||
| FM Antenna Patterns - Shively (7/10/21) | Video | |||
| Antenna Patterning - Sean Edwards, Bob Surette, Kyle Sanders - Shively (10/22/20) | Video | |||
| Slug Tuning for a Better Antenna Match - Steve Wilde - American Amplifier Tech (1/28/21) | Video | |||
| Antenna Matching 102 - Steve Wilde - American Amplifier Tech (4/15/21) | Video | |||
| Maxxcasting & Zonecasting - Bert Goldman (12/10/20) | Video | |||
| Diplexing FMs - Steve Moreen (Dielectric) (8/13/20) | Video | |||
| Liquid-Cooled FM with Don Backus (Rohde & Schwarz) (6/11/20) | Video | |||
| As the Antenna Burns - Clay Freinwald (3/25/21) | Video | |||
| HISTORY | ||||
| Centenary Radio - WBZ 9/16/21 | Video | |||
| A Century of Broadcasting: Fact & Myth - Donna Halper & Barry Mishkind (11/26/20) | Video | |||
| Audio Recording History - Jack Mullin (AES) (12/24/20) | Video | |||
| Drake-Chenault Radio Automation - Hank Landsberg | Video | |||
| Texas Broadcast Museum - Chuck Conrad (9/3/20) | Video | |||
| THE MAINTENANCE SHIFT | ||||
| Getting Help in Difficult Times- - 6/9/22 | Video | |||
| The New PowerClamp/Talent Pod II - Hank Landsberg - 2/24/22 | Video | |||
| Maintenance - How, Where, When? - 1/14/22 | Video | |||
| What Can Your Transmitter Tell You? - Jeff Welton - Nautel- 12/2/21 | Video | |||
| Things You Didn't Know You Needed - Jeff Welton - Nautel 11/4/21 | Video | |||
| How Long is Long Enough? - - Jeff Welton - Nautel - 9/2/21 | Video | |||
| Effective Troubleshooting Policies- Gordon Carter - (8/12/21) | Video | |||
| Planning for Maintenance - Jeff Welton - (3/4/21) | Video | |||
| Maintenance Issues - Group Discussion - (11/19/20) | Video | |||
| Burning Down the House - Jeff Welton - (4/1/21) | Video | |||
| Avoiding Single Points of Failure - Jeff Welton - (1/7/21) | Video | |||
| MICROPHONES | ||||
| Shure Microphones - Ben Escobedo 9/16/21 | Video | |||
| Designing Sennheiser Headphones & microphones - Brian Walker - (10/15/20) | Video | |||
| Shure Broadcast Microphones - Michael Petterson- (8/6/20) | Video | |||
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||||
| Magnetic Light- Duncan Crane - 5/12/22 | Video | |||
| PROGRAM AUTOMATION | ||||
| Unscaring you about Rivendell - John Anderson (Paravel) - (7/23/20) | Video | |||
| SATELLITE ISSUES | ||||
| What is an 5G Update, and more- Mark Johnson - 3/17/22 | Video | |||
| 5G Update - Mark Johnson - LinkUp Communications 9/9/21 | Video | |||
| The C-Band Revamp status with Mark Johnson (LinkUp) - (4/16/20) | Video | |||
| C-Band Lump Sum payments - Mark Johnson - Linkup - (8/27/20) | Video | |||
| STREAMING | ||||
| Handling Streaming Audio - Joh Kean and Corny Gould 10/28/21 | Video | |||
| STUDIO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION | ||||
| NIRO - Acoustic analysis for studios - John Storyk and Peter D'Antonion | Video | |||
| Planning Your Studio - Gordon Carter - (11/5/20) | Video | |||
| Angry Audio/Studio Hub - Clark Novak, Mike Dosch - Angry Audio - (10/1/20) | Video | |||
| TEST AND MONITORING GEAR | ||||
| FM and HD Monitoring - Ben Barber - Inovonics - 6/30/22 | Video | |||
| Remote Control Hacks- Joe Flemming - 6/16/22 | Video | |||
| Monitoring and Control - Tony Peterle - WorldCast - 11/11/21 | Video | |||
| Nautel's HTML5 AUI - Matt Herndon - Nautel;- 10/22/21 | Video | |||
| RF Hawkeye - Dan Glavin (Dielectric (7/29/21) | Video | |||
| AVATAR - Chuck Kelly (BE/Elenos) (12/17/20) | ||||
| sUAS (drones) using IR cameras for antenna and tower inspection - Paul Shulins (4/8/21) | Video | |||
| IP Audio Monitoring with Ben Barber (Inovonics) (6/4/20) | Video | |||
| Getting Remote Delta Temperatures - John Ahern (Davicom) - (7/30/20) | Video | |||
| Remote Control Features and Flash Update - Bob Tarsio (BDI) - (8/20/20) | Video | |||
| Nautel's App: a bridge to HTML5 - Matt Herdon - (9/24/20) | Video | |||
| TRANSMITTER SITE OPERATIONS | ||||
| Making sure your ground is ground- John Belk, Tom LaBarge - 5/19/22 | Video | |||
| The Importance of a Grounding Audit - Tom LaBarge - Groundlinx- 2/10/22 | ||||
| Linking the Gozoutas to the Gozintas - - Jeff Welton - Nautel | Video | |||
| Grounding at the end of a Branch Circuit - Tom LaBarge - Groundlinx - (2/18/21) | Video | |||
| Static Dissipation - Jim Burt (Nott Limited) - (6/25/20) | Video | |||
| Getting the Best out of Ferrites - Jeff Welton - Nautel - (2/4/21) | Video | |||
| BackUPS with Hank Landsberg (Henry Engineering) - (5/14/20) | Video | |||
| Power Clamp - Hank Landsberg - Henry Engineering - (1/14/21) | Video | |||
| TRAINING PROGRAMS | ||||
| What is an Engineer? - Discussion - 11/18/21 | Video | |||
| Finding Elmers - not glue - Jeff Welton Nautel - (5/6/21) | Video | |||
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