Online Radio and TV

NHK Radio Japan is an international broadcaster with a long history. It was initially modeled on the BBC of the United Kingdom and founded in 1926. The first shortwave broadcast was launced in 1935. Through the dark years of World War II it was an official mouthpiece of the Imperial Army. [...]

The Monitoring Times has for a long time been a good solid no-nonsense magazine for those into monitoring the various radio bands out there. Several of their columnists now have online blogs which I can only imagine will help to grow interest in their magazine. Today I’ll highlight a few of those. [...]

Last time I talked about Digital broadcast TV a bit and now it’s radio’s turn. Specifically, I’m talking about broadcast FM and AM. They’re branding this as “HD Radio”, and the idea is that in the same carrier frequencies that they currently use, the AM and FM broadcasters can send as many as [...]

For amateur radio equipment you learn that grounding is important. For antennae you learn that grounding is important. One area we don’t think too much about though is grounding of our OTHER equipment. For several years I’ve had reception annoyances in certain AM ranges as well as shortwave ranges. It’s the [...]