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THE LATEST VIDEOS – 10

Getting Clean Audio into Your System – Hank Landsberg – 10/15/26
Properly Judging Loudness – Cornelius Gould – 10/8/26
Tips on Winterizing – Jeff Welton – 10/1/26
Benefitting from microMPX – Kirk Harnack – 9/24/26
Tower Lighting Discussion and LEDs – Mike Slater – 9/17/26
Analyzing the FCC’s Order and FNPRM on EAS – Bill Robertson and Ed Czanecki – 9/10/26
Doing a Station Audit – Jeff Welton / Barry – 9/3/26
Building a Secure EAS Network – Rolf Taylor / Sean Zhang – 8/27/26
Unobtanium – what can you do? – Jim Stanford – 8/13/26
A FREE EAS tool to generate FCC Compliant Passwords – Barry & Ken – 7/16/26

AUDIO CONSOLES – 8

Virtual Control Platforms – John Davis – Wheatstone – 8/20/26
Arrakis Consoles – Allen Harrison – 3/19/26
Wheatstone’s AML Console – Darin Paley – 11/7/24
What is new with Digital audio consoles -New features – Al Salci – SAS Audio – 6/8/23
Angry Audio’s Rave! – Mike Dosch – 4/27/23
Selecing the Right Console for your facility – Darrin Paley – 10/20/22
iQs – Kirk Harnack – 9/23/21
Audio Consoles move from analog to digital – Tag Borland (Logitek) – 12/3/20

AM TRANSMISSION – 19
AM Field Strength and Boosters – Brian Henry – NRSC – 5/28/26
The BE AMX AM Transmitter – Tim Hardy – BE – 5/21/26
Nott Limited – Jim Burt – 3/12/26
Aqua Cobalt Transmitters – Brendan Lofty and Pavel – 7/31/25
HEBA! – David Maxson, Grady Moates, John Garrett – WWAS – 7/24/25
Transmitter Innovations – Rich Redmond, BE – 6/19/25
Transmitter Control – Jeff Welton – 4/3/25
MDCL – A way to save power on AM – Tim Hardy/Rich Redmond/BE Elenos – 5/16/24
The HEBA is fully approved by the FCC – Grady Moates and David Maxon – 4/11/24
AM Multiplexing – Kurt Gorman – 9/14/23
Is AM Doomed? Can it Be Saved? – A discussion with Greg Ogonowski – 5/25/23
Can an SFN Save AM – John Kean – 7/28/22
Multiplexing AMs – Tom King – 1/28/22
Digital AM at WFAS – Conrad Trautmann 10/7/21
Method of Moments – Ben Dawson & Stephen Lockwood (1/21/21)
High Efficiency Broadband Antenna – Grady Moates (11/12/20)
Digital AM Operations – Dave Kolesar (10/8/20)
NRSC Measurements with Burt Weiner (5/28/20)
High Efficiency BroadBand Antenna with Grady Moates (4/30/20)
AUDIO & VIDEO STREAMING – 10
Streaming Update – Jay Tyler (Wheatstone) and Tony Gervasi (GatesAir)- 5/15/25
New Streaming Features – Tim Labelle – Streamguys – 6/27/24
Supercharging Audio For Vehicles – Paul Kriegler, Telos – 2/15/24
Streaming Redundancy – Ralph Dallons and Tim LaBelle – StreamGuys – 1/25/24
Handling Streaming Audio – Joh Kean and Corny Gould 10/28/21
StreamGuys – Robert Minnix (7/15/21)
RadioDJ – Greg Ogonowski (6/24/21)
HLS Audio – Greg Ogonowski – StreamS (3/18/21)
Multi-Cam Systems – Mary Ann Seidler/Stan Walbert (9/10/20)
Right Streaming Choices – Mike Erickson (Wireless Media) (7/9/20)
AUDIO PROCESSING – 18
Audio Processing – A visit with Frank Foti – 4/30/26
Prism – Adrian Berkovits and Catfish Dosch – 1/8/26
Audio Processing Criteria – Mike “Catfish” Dosch – Angry Audio – 11/13/25
Zen 10 Audio – David Reaves – 8/28/25
Getting The Best Out Of Your Audio Processing – Paul Kriegler – Telos Alliance – 7/10/25
StereoTool and The Perfect Clipper – Hans Van Zotphen – 5/22/25
How to deal with Interference Issues – 10/31/24
Frank Foti talks about how audio processing is improving – 10/23/24
The Loudness Wars Are Over! – Paul Kreigler – 8/15/24
The SMooth Mic Processor – Corny Gould and Mike Dosch – 9/28/23
Angry Audio’s Chameleon’s models – “Catfish” Dosch and Corny Gould – 3/9/23
Audio processing and PPM – The Orban 5950 – Daniel Hyatt – 2/16/23
Follow the Audio, and The C-Level Preprocessor – 9/15/22
The Audio Chameleon – Corny Gould/Mike “Catfish” Dosch – 3/10/22
Omnia 11 V4 and the Silvio Clipper – Frank Foti – 1/21/22
Audio Processing, Streaming, and Podcasts – Cornelius Gould (10/29/20)
The XPN-AM Audio Processor – Bob Orban (7/16/20)
Audio Processing vs Multipath – Frank Foti (Telos Alliance)(6/18/20)
CODECS – 12
The USB Phone Gizmo – Catfish Dosch – Angry Audio – 6/18/26
Codecs – Cyrus Uible – WorldCast – 9/25/25
Intraplex 100n and audio processor! – Tony Gervasi/GatesAir – 5/9/24
IQOYA from Digigram – Brittany Hilton – 9/21/23
Getting the best out of Comrex BRIClink Codecs – Mike Freidman and Chris Crump – 6/23/22
Solving the Problems of audio over IP – Tony Gervasi – 2/17/22
webRTC and Opal – Chris Crump – Comrex 10/14/21
APT MPX Links – Tony Peterle (3/11/21)
CallMe IP codec family – Mike Dosch/Ian Prowse (2/25/21)
The Tieline Gateway – vDoug Ferber/Jacob Daniluck (2/11/21)
Blade 4 – Jay Tyler (Wheatstone) (8/27/20)
IP audio transport with Tony Gervasi (GatesAir) (5/21/20)
CYBER SECURITY – 15

The FCC Cybersecurity Order and NPRM – Jeff Welton – 7/2/26
The FCC Cybersecurity NPRM – Barry Mishkind – 6/25/26
Cyber Security 101 Tips and traps – Kirk Harnack, Wayne Pecena, etc. – 2/19/26
Cyber Security – Aaron Sauer – Auriga Tech, with David and Nico from BlackPoint Cyber – 1/15/26
Fostering Cyber Security – Jeff Welton – Nautel – 12/5/25
AI in Broadcast – Sam Bogoch – Axel.ai – 3/27/25
A new discussion about site security in the current day – things to consider, things to avoid – 10/16/24
*nix OSes and the BlueOnyx – Michael Stauber and Chris Gebhardt – 2/9/23
Open Source applications for broadcasting – Tim Pozar and Brian David – 1/26/23
Firewalls! – Brad Parsons, Wayne Pecena, Danny Boyer – 1/12/23
What the Heck is A Firewall, Anyway? – Tim Pozar – 10/27/22
EAS and Station IT Security – Bill Robertson – DASDEC – 8/4/22
IT Security at the transmitter – Jeff Welton – 2/3/22
Cybersecurity – Wayne Pecena (8/26/21)
Station IT Security with Fred Gleason (Paravel) (4/23/20)

DIGITAL TRANSMISSION – 4
ATSC 3 – Dana Puopolo – 8/22/24
ATSC3 – Dave Folsom – 4/14/22
Digital AM at WFAS – Conrad Trautmann 10/7/21
Digital AM Operations – Dave Kolesar (10/8/20)
EAS – 12
EAS Update and EAS as Software – Bill Robertson, Digital Alert Systems – 6/26/25
EAS as Software – what’s the Buzz? – Ed Czarnecki – 5/29/25
Getting The Word Out – A discussion on alerting EAS and non-EAS – 1/30/25
EAS Debrief – Bill Robertson and Ed Czarnecki – 10/5/23
Is Radio Competent During Disasters? – The BDR – 8/17/23
EAS 2023 and Your Budget, Plus the NRSC requirement – Bill Robertson – DASDEC – 1/19/23
Has the FCC gone too far on EAS? – Bill Robertson, Ed Czarnecki, Gary Timm – 11/10/22
DASDEC-III and new EAS features – Bill Robertson – 4/21/22
Reviewing the NPT (8/12/21)
A Chat with the FEMA – Mark Lucero (4/29/21)
NWS Partical County Activations – Schott, Berc, Hart (4/22/21)
FEMA uses IPAWS to link non-weather alerts to NWR – Ed Czarnecki (9/17/20)
FCC ISSUES – 8

The SBE/NAB Self-Inspection Checklist – Ched Keiler – 7/9/26
Delete, Delete, Delete discussion – Michi Bradley – 4/24/25
Dealing with the FAA – Gary Cavell and James Scott – Capital Airspace – 2/13/25
But, is it legal? – Mike Langner – 9/18/24
The FCC Complaint Portal – Lark Hadley – 1/18/24
Inside the ABIP – Mike Langner (8/19/21)
FCC Exposure Rules – Raj Mathur (5/27/21)
ABIP and you – Ken Benner (9/17/20)

FM ANTENNAS & TRANSMISSION – 26

Assessing Signal Quality – John Kean – 7/23/26
New Transmitter Features – Jeff Welton – 5/7/26
ZoneCasting – Bert Goldman – GeoBroadcasting – 9/18/25
DSCP Antennas – Mersedeh Najishabahang and John Schadler – 9/11/25
Aqua Broadcast’s Cobalt Transmitters – Brendan Lofty and Pavel from Aqua Broadcast – 7/31/25
Transmitter Innovations – Rich Redmond, BE – 6/19/25
Asymmetrical FM HD Sidebands – Jeff Welton, Nautel – 6/5/25
Transmitter Control – Jeff Welton – 4/3/25
Getting to most out of the RDS/HD displays – Rich Redmond, Shane Toven, Bud Williamson – BE – 2/20/25
FM Stereo SSB – Grady Moates – 6/20/24
AiO transmitters and codec advancements – Tony Peterle – 5/23/24
FM Antennas – Tom Silliman – 10/12/23
Looking up – Antenna Maintenance – The BDR – 7/13/23
PTEK becomes CW Broadcast – Kyle Magrill – 6/22/23
Quick Block transmitters from BE/Elenos – Rich Redmond – 6/15/23
SimpleFM from WorldCast – Tony Peterle – 3/30/23
Dielectric Pylon Antennas and FM DA Software – Nicole Starett and Connor Pittman – 7/21/22
Update on Nautel AUI and VX transmitters – Matt Herdon and Mike Woods – 6/2/22
FM Antenna Patterns – Shively (7/10/21)
Antenna Matching 102 – Steve Wilde – American Amplifier Tech (4/15/21)
As the Antenna Burns – Clay Freinwald (3/25/21)
Slug Tuning for a Better Antenna Match – Steve Wilde – American Amplifier Tech (1/28/21)
Maxxcasting and Zonecasting – Bert Goldman (12/10/20)
Antenna Patterning – Sean Edwards, Bob Surette, Kyle Sanders – Shively (10/22/20)
Diplexing FMs – Steve Moreen (Dielectric) (8/13/20)
Liquid-Cooled FM – with Don Backus (Rohde and Schwarz) (6/11/20)

HISTORY – 5
Centenary Radio – WBZ 9/16/21
Audio Recording History – Jack Mullin (AES) (12/24/20)
A Century of Broadcasting: Fact and Myth – Donna Halper and Barry Mishkind (11/26/20)
Texas Broadcast Museum – Chuck Conrad (9/3/20)
Drake-Chenault Radio Automation – Hank Landsberg
THE MAINTENANCE SHIFT – 31
Transmitter Maintenance Tips – Brian Szewczyk and Dan Carcopo – GatesAir – 6/11/26
Getting The Right Manual – Jeff Welton & Adam Middelkoop – Nautel – 6/4/26
Backups – gear and personal – Jeff Welton, Nautel – 7/3/25
A discussion on having the right tools in the right place at the right time – 2/27/25
Behind the Screen – Jeff Welton – Nautel – 2/6/25
How to get Great Tech Support – Jeff Welton – 1/2/25
Disaster recovery post Hurricane Helene. News, tips, discussion. – 10/4/24
Disaster Preparation and Recovery – 5/30/24
RF Spring Cleaning – 2/29/24
Building a Spring Cleaning Checklist – Jeff Welton, Nautel – 2/1/24
Winterizing – Jeff Welton – 11/2/23
Preventing Lightning Damage – Tom LaBarge – 5/11/23
Transmitter Calibration – Jeff Welton – 5/4/23
Nautel’s AUI is rolling out! – Matt herdon and Jeff Welton – 4/6/23
Life Cycle Planning – Jeff Welton – 1/5/23
Troubleshooting – 12/15/22
Protecting Your Transmitter – Jeff Welton – 11/3/22
Watch Out for That … ! – Gordon Carter – 9/22/22
Making Sure Your Transmitter is in Compliance – 9/1/22
Finding Help When You Need It – 8/25/22
Getting Help in Difficult Times – 6/9/22
The New PowerClamp/Talent Pod II – Hank Landsberg – 2/24/22
Maintenance – How, Where, When? – 1/14/22
What Can Your Transmitter Tell You? – Jeff Welton – Nautel – 12/2/21
Things You Didn’t Know You Needed – Jeff Welton – Nautel 11/4/21
How Long is Long Enough? – Jeff Welton – Nautel – 9/2/21
Effective Troubleshooting Policies – Gordon Carter – (8/12/21)
Burning Down the House – Jeff Welton – (4/1/21)
Planning for Maintenance – Jeff Welton – (3/4/21)
Avoiding Single Points of Failure – Jeff Welton – (1/7/21)
Maintenance Issues – Group Discussion – (11/19/20)
MANAGEMENT ISSUES – 2
How to Buy the Right Equipment – Jeff Welton/Jeff Wilson – Nautel – 5/1/25
Budgets and ROI – The BDR – 8/24/23
MICROPHONES – 6
Wireless Mic Solutions / Security – Chris Crump / Tom Hartnett – Comrex – 12/18/25
100 Years of Shure – Michael Petersen – 6/12/25
A conversation about microphones – 9/5/24
Shure Microphones – Ben Escobedo – 9/16/21
Designing Sennheiser Headphones and microphones – Brian Walker – (10/15/20)
Shure Broadcast Microphones – Michael Petterson- (8/6/20)
MISCELLANEOUS – 14
Post NAB recap – 4/23/26
NAB mini-Preview – Barry Mishkind – 4/16/26
BE Brings It All Back Home – Rich Redmond – 3/26/26
Broadcast Depot’s Open House – 1/29/26
Fiber Optics for Broadcast – Ben Nemser/Danny Ritts – Nemal Electronics – 10/9/25
Why I did not go to the 2025 NAB Spring Show 4/17/25
Some highlights of the 2025 NAB Spring Show 4/11/25
Power Considerations – Hank Landsberg – 8/8/24
A quick look at NAB 2024 – 4/18/24
How and Why to Retire – Chuck Kelly- retired – 3/14/24
The Broadcast Depot Open house – 1/11/24
On the job training and mentoring – Jeff Welton – 2/2/23
ROI – Jeff Wleton – 10/6/22
Magnetic Light – Duncan Crane – 5/12/22
PROGRAM AUTOMATION – 7

AudioVault AV-xI – Joe Myers, Rich Redmond – Broadcast Electronics – 11/20/25
How radio can take advantage of the cloud – Andrew Scaglioni – Radio.Cloud – 1/23/25
The Virtual Studio – Bill Robertson (DASDEC) and Christian Schneirling (Lawo) – 12/5/24
Automation Tips – Adam Robinson – 11/14/24
Wheatstone’s AML Console – Darin Paley – 11/7/24
Insoft’s new AI assisted video for radio – Alex Bonello – 4/25/24
Unscaring you about Rivendell – John Anderson (Paravel) – (7/23/20)

SATELLITE ISSUES – 8

C-Band Update – Mark Johnson – LinkUp Comm. – 7/30/26
C-Band Update / Program Transmission – Mark Johnson – LinkUp Comm.- 2/12/26
C-Band Update – Mark Johnson – Link Up Communications – 10/30/25
Satellite receivers and maintenance – Marcos O’Roarke – LinkUp- 2/22/24
What is an 5G Update, and more – Mark Johnson – 3/17/22
5G Update – Mark Johnson – LinkUp Communications 9/9/21
C-Band Lump Sum payments – Mark Johnson – Linkup – (8/27/20)
The C-Band Revamp status with Mark Johnson (LinkUp) – (4/16/20)

STUDIO DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION – 8
Simple Solutions for Studio Needs – Hank Lansberg – 12/19/24
Today is leading us into Tomorrow – Ed Bukont – 9/12/24
Yellowtec pre-NAB product review – Jeff Williams – 3/16/23
Moving to a Digital Studio – Clark Novak, LAWO – 8/19/22
Building a Great Monitor System – Dana Puopolo – 8/11/22
Planning Your Studio – Gordon Carter – (11/5/20)
Angry Audio/Studio Hub – Clark Novak, Mike Dosch – Angry Audio – (10/1/20)
NIRO – Acoustic analysis for studios – John Storyk and Peter D’Antonion
TEST & MONITORING GEAR – 19
Remote Control with Kybio – Cyrus Uible – WorldCast – 5/14/26
Broadcast Tools NAB Preview – Ben Nason – 4/9/26
Audio Management Solutions – Bob Tarsio – Broadcast Devices – 2/26/26
Modulation Monitoring – Ben Barber – inovonics – 7/17/25
TX-Control – Guido, Renzo, and Chuck from 22HBG (Elenos) – 5/18/23
LinkUp’s new Sentinel service – Mark & Karen Johnson, Eric Wiler – 3/23/23
Controllers and Monitors – Bob Tarsio – 12/8/22
Test Gear that Will Not Break the Budget – 9/8/22
FM and HD Monitoring – Ben Barber – Inovonics – 6/30/22
Remote Control Hacks – Joe Flemming – 6/16/22
Monitoring and Control – Tony Peterle – WorldCast – 11/11/21
Nautel’s HTML5 AUI – Matt Herndon – Nautel;- 10/22/21
RF Hawkeye – Dan Glavin (Dielectric (7/29/21)
sUAS (drones) using IR cameras for antenna and tower inspection – Paul Shulins (4/8/21)
AVATAR – Chuck Kelly (BE/Elenos) (12/17/20)
Nautel’s App: a bridge to HTML5 – Matt Herdon – (9/24/20)
Remote Control Features and Flash Update – Bob Tarsio (BDI) – (8/20/20)
Getting Remote Delta Temperatures – John Ahern (Davicom) – (7/30/20)
IP Audio Monitoring with Ben Barber (Inovonics) (6/4/20)
TRANSMITTER SITE OPERATIONS – 25
Budgeting:Tubes or No Tubes – Jeff Welton – Nautel 3/5/26
Dealing With Cold Weather – Jeff Welton-Nautel – 2/5/26
EmPowering your systems – Matt Rigdon – American Amplifier Technologies – 10/23/25
Cellphones – Blessing or Curse – Jeff Welton – Nautel – 10/2/25
Listening to your Transmitter – Jeff Welton – 9/4/25
Tower Site Safety – Kathy Stieler and Brian Bicknese – NATE – 5/8/25
Good Grounding – Bill Ruck – 3/20/25
How to deal with Interference Issues – 10/31/24
Jeff Welton explains why a whole thought-out system is needed for protection – 10/8/24
A discussion about site security in the current day – things to consider, things to avoid – 9/18/24
Co-Existing on a Shared Site – Ray Lewis – 8/29/24
Better Remote Control – John Ahern – 7/18/24
Tower Maintenance – Bob Jellison – 7/11/24
Tower Maintenance – Tom Silliman ERI – 6/13/24
Tower Lighting and maintenance – Alex Feulgraf – 3/28/24
SimpleFM from WorldCast – Tony Peterle – 3/30/23
RF Cohabitation – Being a Good Neighbor – Ray Lewis – 11/17/22
Making sure your ground is ground – John Belk, Tom LaBarge – 5/19/22
The Importance of a Grounding Audit – Tom LaBarge – Groundlinx- 2/10/22
Grounding at the end of a Branch Circuit – Tom LaBarge – Groundlinx – (2/18/21)
Getting the Best out of Ferrites – Jeff Welton – Nautel – (2/4/21)
Power Clamp – Hank Landsberg – Henry Engineering – (1/14/21)
Static Dissipation – Jim Burt (Nott Limited) – (6/25/20)
BackUPS with Hank Landsberg (Henry Engineering) – (5/14/20)
Linking the Gozoutas to the Gozintas – Jeff Welton – Nautel

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