Managing Technology
Revenue from HD Radio
Kevin McNamara steps back and considers what HD Radio actually brings to the table, in terms of "real world" capabilities.
Method of Moments Modeling
In February 2009 the FCC formally permitted the use of Method of Moments (MoM) modeling. Kevin McNamara explains the concepts of using this tool.
MPLS Networks
Multiprotocol Label Switching is a highly scalable alternative method to route different types of data through a common network.
OSHA Compliance
While many people find OSHA regulations to be excessive and expensive to enforce, the fact remains: These regulations exist and are enforceable by fines and possible jail time.
Building Codes and RS222-G
TIA-222 has been around since 1949, but it has seen several revisions. Here's a review of the current standards.
Broadband to the Car
The car is becoming a mobile media room. How does radio fit in?
Next Steps in Launching a Business
Kevin McNamara helps you start your business off and keep it operating on the right track.
Starting a New Business
The good news is that establishing a business is fairly easy, but running it, and more importantly keeping it running, is the hard part.
Open Source Software
It's never been easier to learn and write useful programs that make your day-to-day life easier, more productive and increase your value as an employee.
Tower Siting and the Environment
Environmental protection issues for towers extend beyond air, water and wildlife. It also includes historical buildings, landmarks, protected lands and national parks.
Next-level Career Planning
Most likely a career change has entered your thoughts. We look at ways to move up the ladder, ideas to consider changing to a different industry, and plan for future job security.
Maximizing Tower Assets
There will always be opportunities to rent tower space. Here are some insider tips to keep in mind.
Safety in the workplace
The upcoming generation of radio engineers will encounter a new ease of measurement as a fact of the Commission's new directional antenna proof rules.
Outsource yourself
Outsourcing broadcast engineering services is not new, many markets, particularly the smaller of them, have been using contract engineering services for years.
Alternative power systems
While approaches using the sun, wind, sub-surface heating and water cause no pollution and little-to-no operational expense once installed, they have been relatively costly to deploy.
Honing skills to be ready for business
You can be sure the economy will recover and you want to be in a position to take advantage of the inevitable opportunities. This is a great time to prioritize goals, make a plan, start the process of learning new skills or increasing the marketability of the skills you already have.
IP audio: The new audio format
Analog audio was simple. It could be transmitted easily and heard with anything. Digital audio complicate things, but standards help. Now we have IP audio. Is this the replacement for AES3?
What's happening at 700MHz?
The newly cleared spectrum is perhaps some of the most desirable largely due to the fact that radio frequency in this lower range travels farther and tends to penetrate buildings more efficiently than higher frequencies.
Getting out of the noise floor
Satisfaction usually equates to fun in the workplace. According to studies of many large organizations, employees are apparently having less fun at work.
Bullet-proof facilities
As part of the group charged with the responsibility of maintaining a broadcast facility, engineers have the added responsibility to ensure the stations continue operating through all types of emergencies.
Inside IPv6
We are now running out of available IP addresses under the current addressing scheme called IPv4, which is limited to a maximum of 4,294,967,296 addresses. This may seem like a lot of addresses, but consider that according to ICANN, the available IPv4 addresses will run out by 2011.
Applications for IP tunneling
A connection established through an IP tunnel is similar to plugging a PC into the network connection at the station. IP tunnels can operate through any type of wired or wireless network.
Content delivery options
As a stand-alone medium, traditional broadcasting is subject to a multitude of restrictions as compared with other Internet-driven delivery platforms
Radio broadcasting and 700MHz
The FCC is auctioning what may be the most important spectrum allocations of our time. This portion of spectrum will be available as a result of the FCC mandate for traditional analog broadcast television to migrate to the new digital HDTV system by Feb. 17, 2009, specifically the portion previously occupied by channels 60-69.
IT for Radio Engineers
Today, many of the clunky boxes that served us so well in the past have been replaced by networked hardware and software systems, which, while providing a far more powerful and compact platform to fill the operational needs of a facility, now take the form of black-boxes and software files. (The tools you use no longer came from a metal cabinet.)
