Online Radio and TV

I hope to resume the digital broadcast tv conversion series next week, but in the meantime….
So many things have been achieved by asking what if… These days radio receivers, AM, FM, shortwave, etc. have wide variations, there are simple cheap sets and then there are those with all the bells and whistles, meters, etc. [...]

I was watching North Carolina Now the other day on PBS and it reminded me of one of the great treasures here in the Asheville area that, believe it or not, I haven’t YET visited. That’s the Southern Appalachian Radio Museum. Hosted on the campus of AB Tech here in Asheville. They [...]

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 [...]