Flashback to 1975 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa: I had just accepted my first job as a chief engineer for an AM/FM combo operation. Times were simpler then, with turntables, cart machines and reel-to-reel ...

(click thumbnail)Fig. 1: Bird Technologies Group Broadcast Applications Engineer Bill Tobin and Customer Service Representative Nancy Black demonstrate a free slide rule that calculates FM ...

In August, this column took up some aspects of the measurement of DTV transmitter power output. You might wonder why I used the phrase "DTV transmitter power output" instead of "effective radiated ...

Wireless communications products that depend on RF principles are everywhere these days, and the growth rate is astonishing. From cell phones and wireless PDAs to Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, Bluetooth ...