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Upcoming Events:                                            

  • 6/12 – Michael Petersen – Shure – 100 years of Shure.
  • 6/19 – Rich Redmond – BE – New FM transmitters.
  • 6/26 – DASDEC’s LEAP – Bill Robertson
  • 7/ 3 – Jeff Welton – Nautel
  • 7/10 – Audio Processing tricks and traps – Paul Kriegler – Telos Alliance
  • 7/17 – Understanding Modulation Monitors – Ben Barber – Inovonics
  • 7/24 – High Efficiency Broadband Antennas  (HEBA) – David Maxson & Grady Moates – 
  • 7/31 – Aqua Broadcast Cobalt transmitters – Brendan Lofy
  • 8/7 – Jeff Welton – Nautel 
  • 8/14 – Remote control and monitoring – Bob Tarsio – Broadcast Devices
  • 8/21 – Self Inspection Checklists – Ched Keiler
  • 8/28 – Zen Processing – David Reeves – Aqua Broadcast
  • 9/4 – Jeff Welton – Nautel
  • 9/11 – Dielectric’s DSPC Economical High Power Circular FM Antenna
  • 9/18 – MaxxCasting/Zonecastiong – Bert Goldman
  • 9/25 – TBA
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THE LATEST VIDEOS – 16
  EAS Update and EAS as Software – Bill Robertson, Digital Alert Systems – 6/26/25
  Transmitter Innovations – Rich Redmond, BE – 6/19/25
  100 Years of Shure – Michael Petersen – 6/12/25
  Asymmetrical FM HD Sidebands – Jeff Welton, Nautel – 6/5/25
  EAS as Software – what’s the Buzz? – Ed Czarnecki – 5/29/25
  StereoTool and The Perfect Clipper – Hans Van Zotphen – 5/22/25
  Streaming Update – Jay Tyler (Wheatstone) and Tony Gervasi (GatesAir)- 5/15/25
  Tower Site Safety – Kathy Stieler and Brian Bicknese – NATE – 5/8/25
  How to Buy the Right Equipment – Jeff Welton/Jeff Wilson – Nautel – 5/1/25
  Delete, Delete, Delete discussion – Michi Bradley – 4/24/25
  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
  Transmitter Control – Jeff Welton – 4/3/25
  AI in Broadcast – Sam Bogoch – Axel.ai – 3/27/25
  Good Grounding – Bill Ruck – 3/20/25
  Getting to most out of the RDS/HD displays – Rich Redmond, Shane Toven, Bud Williamson – BE – 2/20/25
AUDIO CONSOLES – 6
  Wheatstone’s AML Console – Darin Paley – 11/7/24
  What is new with Digital audio consoles -New featrues – 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 – 12
  The HEBAis fully approved by the FCC – Grady Moates and David Maxon – 4/11/24
  MDCL – A way to save power on AM – Tim Hardy/Rich Redmond/BE Elenos – 5/16/24
  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)
  High Efficiency BroadBand Antenna with Grady Moates (4/30/20)
  Digital AM Operations – Dave Kolesar (10/8/20)
  NRSC Measurements with Burt Weiner (5/28/20)
AUDIO & VIDEO STREAMING – 8
  Supercharging Audio For Vehicles – Paul Kriegler, Telos – 2/15/24
  Streaming Redundancy – Ralph Dallons & Tim LaBelle – StreamBuys – 1/25/24
  StreamGuys – Robert Minnix (7/15/21)
  Handling Streaming Audio – Joh Kean and Corny Gould 10/28/21
  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)
  RadioDJ – Greg Ogonowski (6/24/21)
AUDIO PROCESSING – 12
  Frank Foti talks about how audio processing is improving – 10/23/24
  The Loudness Wars Are Over! – Paul Kreigler – 8/15/24
  How to deal with Interference Issues – 10/31/24
  The SMooth Mic Processor – Corny Gould & 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 – 10
  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)
  The Tieline Gateway – vDoug Ferber/Jacob Daniluck (2/11/21)
  CallMe IP codec family – Mike Dosch/Ian Prowse (2/25/21)
  Blade 4 – Jay Tyler (Wheatstone) (8/27/20)
  IP audio transport with Tony Gervasi (GatesAir) (5/21/20)
CYBER SECURITY – 9
  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
  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
  Open Source applications for broadcasting – Tom Pozar and Brian David – 1/26/23
  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 – 11
  Getting The Word Out – A discussion on alerting EAS and non-EAS – 1/30/25
  Is Radio Competent During Disasters? – The BDR – 8/17/23
  EAS Debrief – Bill Robertson & Ed Czarnecki – 10/5/23
  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)
  EAS for the NPT (7/22/21)
  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 – 6
  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 Portan – 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 – 17
  AiO transmitters and codec advancements – Tony Peterle – 5/23/24
  FM Stereo SSB – Grady Moates – 6/20/24
  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 Patterning – Sean Edwards, Bob Surette, Kyle Sanders – Shively (10/22/20)
  Slug Tuning for a Better Antenna Match – Steve Wilde – American Amplifier Tech (1/28/21)
  Antenna Matching 102 – Steve Wilde – American Amplifier Tech (4/15/21)
  Maxxcasting & Zonecasting – Bert Goldman (12/10/20)
  Diplexing FMs – Steve Moreen (Dielectric) (8/13/20)
  Liquid-Cooled FM with Don Backus (Rohde & Schwarz) (6/11/20)
  As the Antenna Burns – Clay Freinwald (3/25/21)
HISTORY – 5
  Centenary Radio – WBZ 9/16/21
  A Century of Broadcasting: Fact & Myth – Donna Halper and Barry Mishkind (11/26/20)
  Audio Recording History – Jack Mullin (AES) (12/24/20)
  Drake-Chenault Radio Automation – Hank Landsberg
  Texas Broadcast Museum – Chuck Conrad (9/3/20)
THE MAINTENANCE SHIFT – 29
  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 Preparation and Recovery – 5/30/24
  After the Disaster – What Do We Do? – Jeff Welton and Barry discuss – 6/6/24
  Disaster recovery post Hurricane Helene. News, tips, discussion. – 10/4/24
  RF Spring Cleaning – 2/29/24
  Building a Spring Cleaning Checklist – Jeff Welton, Nautel – 2/1/24
  Winterizing – Jeff Welton – 11/2/23
  Transmitter Calibration – Jeff Welton – 5/4/23
  Nautel’s AUI is rolling out! – Matt herdon and Jeff Welton – 4/6/23
  Preventing Lightning Damage – Tom LaBarge – 5/11/23
  Life Cycle Planning – Jeff Welton – 1/5/23
  Protecting Your Transmitter – Jeff Welton – 11/3/22
  Troubleshooting – 12/15/22
  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)
  Planning for Maintenance – Jeff Welton – (3/4/21)
  Maintenance Issues – Group Discussion – (11/19/20)
  Burning Down the House – Jeff Welton – (4/1/21)
  Avoiding Single Points of Failure – Jeff Welton – (1/7/21)
MANAGEMENT ISSUES – 1
  Budgets and ROI – The BDR – 8/24/23
MICROPHONES – 4
  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 – 7
  The Broadcast Depot Open house – 1/11/24
  How and Why to Retire – Chuck Kelly- retired – 3/14/24
  A quick look at NAB 2024 – 4/18/24
  Power Considerations – Hank Landsberg – 8/8/24
  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
  Wheatstone’s AML Console – Darin Paley – 11/7/24
  Automation Tips – Adam Robinson – 11/14/24
  How radio can take advantage of the cloud – Andrew Scaglioni – Radio.Cloud – 1/23/25
  Insoft’s new AI assisted video for radio– Alex Bonello – 4/25/24
  The Virtual Studio – Bill Robertson (DASDEC) and Christian Schneirling (Lawo) – 12/5/24
  Automation Tips – Adam Robinson – 11/14/24
  Unscaring you about Rivendell – John Anderson (Paravel) – (7/23/20)
SATELLITE ISSUES – 5
  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
  The C-Band Revamp status with Mark Johnson (LinkUp) – (4/16/20)
  C-Band Lump Sum payments – Mark Johnson – Linkup – (8/27/20)
STREAMING – 3
  New Streaming Features – Tim Labelle – Streamguys – 6/27/24
  Streaming Redundancy – Ralph Dallons & Tim LaBelle – StreamBuys – 1/25/24
  Handling Streaming Audio – Joh Kean and Corny Gould – 10/28/21
STUDIO DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION – 8
  Today is leading us into Tomorrow – Ed Bukont – 9/12/24
  Simple Solutions for Studio Needs – Hank Lansberg – 12/19/24
  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
  NIRO – Acoustic analysis for studios – John Storyk and Peter D’Antonion
  Planning Your Studio – Gordon Carter – (11/5/20)
  Angry Audio/Studio Hub – Clark Novak, Mike Dosch – Angry Audio – (10/1/20)
TEST & MONITORING GEAR – 15
  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)
  AVATAR – Chuck Kelly (BE/Elenos) (12/17/20)
  sUAS (drones) using IR cameras for antenna and tower inspection – Paul Shulins (4/8/21)
  IP Audio Monitoring with Ben Barber (Inovonics) (6/4/20)
  Getting Remote Delta Temperatures – John Ahern (Davicom) – (7/30/20)
  Remote Control Features and Flash Update – Bob Tarsio (BDI) – (8/20/20)
  Nautel’s App: a bridge to HTML5 – Matt Herdon – (9/24/20)
TRANSMITTER SITE OPERATIONS – 19
  How to deal with Interference Issues – 10/31/24
  Tower Lighting and maintenance – Alex Feulgraf – 3/28/24
  Tower Maintenance – Tom Silliman ERI – 6/13/24
  Tower Maintenance – Bob Jellison – 7/11/24
  Better Remote Control – John Ahern – 7/18/24
  RF Cohabitation – Being a Good Neighbor – Ray Lewis – 11/17/22
  Co-Existing on a Shared Site – Ray Lewis – 8/29/24
  A discussion about site security in the current day – things to consider, things to avoid – 9/18/24
  Jeff Welton explains why a whole thought-out system is needed for protection – 10/8/24
  How to deal with Interference Issues – 10/31/24
  SimpleFM from WorldCast – Tony Peterle – 3/30/23
  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
  Linking the Gozoutas to the Gozintas – Jeff Welton – Nautel
  Grounding at the end of a Branch Circuit – Tom LaBarge – Groundlinx – (2/18/21)
  Static Dissipation – Jim Burt (Nott Limited) – (6/25/20)
  Getting the Best out of Ferrites – Jeff Welton – Nautel – (2/4/21)
  BackUPS with Hank Landsberg (Henry Engineering) – (5/14/20)
  Power Clamp – Hank Landsberg – Henry Engineering – (1/14/21)

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