Audemat FM-MC3.2 with Goldenear 

At some point in an engineer's career, questions such as How does our signal compare to so-and-so? or, Have we increased multipath along the highway lately?

Mutual impedance 

Matters of impedance are deeply significant in radio engineering. In audio, with lower frequencies, the actual component values are generally considerably

Transmission - Transmitters 

Antenna basics 

The author Gertrude Stein once said a rose is a rose, is a rose is a rose. Maybe an antenna is an antenna, is an antenna also applies, but an AM antenna

AM tower installation 

If you have the good fortune to be responsible for the installation of a directional AM station, you will find that there are many important details that

Parasitic radiators 

In the October 2000 issue of BE Radio, this column discussed parasitics and touched on several aspects of parasitic reradiation that are of concern to

Care of transmission lines 

Most radio engineers will agree that after the antenna and ground system, transmission lines are probably the most neglected item. For both AM and FM,

Using the operating impedance bridge 

Many test instruments have been developed in the history of broadcast engineering. Some have had brief lives; others simply filled the needs that many

Parasitic radiators 

A radio engineer's definition of a parasite might be something that obtains its power from another's energy. In other areas of broadcast engineering it

Broadcast Electronics AM-1A 

When Northwestern College Radio acquired WMAD, Sun Prairie, WI, in January 1997, one of the first priorities was to replace the transmitter, a 1981-vintage

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