While fewer and fewer people are listening to FM radio today, it was hot stuff amid its widespread rollout during the late 1930s and early 40s. Short for frequency modulation, FM’s appeal compared to ...

Lucas Adcock Staff Writer Let’s start with a vivid scenario – one which cripples the grid, extinguishing telecommunications via both landline and cell coverage. To add to the scenario, and to make it ...

As I browsed the Exhibit Hall and lingered outside professional development sessions at APCO 2013, I found a consistent theme in the conversations I overheard and those I entered myself. Most ...

Basic Radio Journalism is a new book available from Focal Press, for aspiring journalists. The book, by Paul Chantler and Peter Stewart, is an extensive rewrite of an earlier edition. Although Basic ...

The following terms appear in Dan Slentz’s eBook article about building an LPFM. They are explained in only basic terms here for readers who may not be familiar with them. Detailed definitions can be ...

Ben Dawson is former managing partner of Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers and now a senior consultant to the firm. He is a recipient of the Radio Engineering Achievement Award from the National ...

Seinäjoki, Finland was a tough place to be a budding geek back in 1985. Just ask Eero Tunkelo, a grade school student with a doctor for a father, a mother who taught sewing and textile design, and a ...

A battery-powered radio is great to have on hand in the event of a power outage or other emergency, but an even better option is an emergency weather radio. This one uses a solar panel, hand crank, ...