EUonline Feature Articles

Want to diplex two AM signals on the same tower? From Cohen, Dippel and Everist, P.C., we present A TECHNICAL OVERVIEW OF JOINT TRANSMITTING FACILITIES FOR DIRECTIONAL AND NON-DIRECTIONAL OPERATIONS FOR AM STATIONS. This overview is of importance as public stations acquire AM properties, and consolidate transmitter facilities. (20020528)

Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems and Their Impact On the Terrestrial Radio
Further Study of FM IBOC & FM SCA Compatibility.
This report to the FCC, from NPR, IAAIS and the Advanced Television Technology Center, details anticipated interference on SCA signals from IBOC transmissions.
(20020528)

A Review of the Marantz PMD680 Digital Recorder NPR's Flawn Williams eyeballs this recorder once, then twiceover for a good, comprehensive look at its features and functionality.(20010202)

The Two Minute Reviewer NPR's Mark Greenhouse spends his time wisely when looking over equipment, and gives complete reviews of that equipment that'll take just two minutes out of your busy day.

AudioLocker SM version 1.18.905 We present the downloadable source code and compiled executable for AudioLocker, the automation application for playing audio files by playlist. This is our first foray into community-code; revise, enhance and improve AudioLocker and send us your work. (990820 updated 20030905)

Ask Russ Have questions about studio design and acoustics? The Russ Berger Design Group answers your questions in a new continuing feature of EUonline. See Ask Russ, then send us your questions to pose to Russ, Richard, Robert and Johnson of RBDG. (981010).

From the EUonline Feature Archives:

KQED's Fred Krock knows how to Care and Feed records and his marvelous paper gives you useful tips to safely use and store those precious disks, plus a good review of that groovy medium. (000412)

How I Got 0 to 10 kHz Down a POTS Line -- For (almost) Free. KBSU's Steve Jess demonstrates how to get better audio over a phone-line---the old-fashioned frequency extender way---but using CoolEdit to make it happen. Includes CoolEdit scripts you can use. In Features. (000412)

Doug Vernier presents his paper Interference on the FM Band that examines methods of predicting interference and reviews recent receiver studies. His paper is thoughtful fodder for those of you raising shields against LPFM. (000412)

A novel approach to automating NPR’s All Things Considered and other satellite-fed network programs without cue tones or other break signals. WKYU's Chris Scott has spent some quality-time researching the ways his automation system could reliably leave and rejoin network programming. He has developed several unique circuits that help his automation system "know" when to fire a sequence of events, and he presents his complete full-size schematics, circuit theory and white paper to explain how it works, and why you may want to consider it for use with your automation system. (980201)

Where Did They Go Wrong?American Wireless Inventors of the Nineteenth Century EUonline is pleased to present this engaging manuscript that chronicles the achivements of European and Americans struggling to develop practical wireless devices. Author Robert Lochte says that the Americans most likely to succeed were preoccupied with mainstream but inefficient technology, and lacked a primary interest in wireless. This manuscript is in it first printing here in EUonline!(Summer 1997)

Tower Registration Primer The FCC and the FAA insist that they have accurate data about your tower...That means you've got to prove your tower is where its supposed to be, and as tall as specified. Doug Vernier takes you though the steps of compliance in this illustrated primer.

EUonline's first-ever product review: Mark Jovanoic takes a look at the ARRL Handbook CD-ROM, and reports that it's a swell deal for a swell price.

REMORSE WINS PEABODY AWARD. On April 3, 1997  REMORSE: THE 14 STORIES OF ERIC MORSE was awarded a 1996 George Foster Peabody Award.
Read how these two unique radio production were put together, as told by the lead engineer of the project.
The making of Ghetto Life 101 In Part I of Caryl Wheeler's narritive, we focus on the production techniques used in making Ghetto Life 101...and the difficulty of working with great content that has technical problems.
In The Making of REMORSE, the team joins the digital revolution, and fun really begins!

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