DON MARKLEY

If you have to defend your existing or proposed RF facilities in a public forum, make sure you’re well informed.

Learn the ups and downs of getting your digital signal from the studio to the transmitter

This article offers a review of vector network analyzer basics for testing transmission lines, antennas and other RF components, along with some dos and don’ts.

Those words have often struck terror into the hearts of station management.

Let us all humbly face the center part of the East Coast of these United States and quietly acknowledge the home of our exalted leader, the Federal Communications

Other than a possible new tower, the single biggest item at the transmitting plant is probably the transmitter.

The tuning of combiner or diplexer assemblies is a job for the factory representatives. As is well-known and often discussed in laborious detail, most

Be very reluctant to purchase a unit that is specifically designed for a narrow set of input parameters with no expansion capability. The encoder that

Many broadcasters go through their entire careers without having the joy of building a new tower. For many others, this particular activity only occurs

Don Markley offers suggestions for the selection of transmission line, as well as information on different options available, and some of the benefits and drawbacks of each.

Traditionally, we monitor the television signal at every stage of the process from the initial generation point in the cameras until it leaves the transmitter itself.

The first advantage of a community tower is usually in the site itself. The construction of a tower acts as a magnet, drawing unanticipated users with

Dual lighting systems avoid the necessity of painting the tower but are much better neighbors at night. Tower lights are a lot like air conditioners in