Terry Baun Dies at 74
Terry Baun, an influential and award-winning engineer who worked in both commercial and public broadcasting and was deeply involved with the Society of Broadcast Engineers including two terms as its president, has died at age 74. His passing was announced by his wife Linda Baun. Terrence M. Baun was born in 1947 and began his […]
CES Show Is Shortened by a Day
The Consumer Technology Association is going ahead with its CES 2022 convention this week, but has decided to shorten the schedule. The in-person event in Las Vegas now will run Jan. 5–7. “The step was taken as an additional safety measure to the current health protocols that have been put in place for CES,” the CTA […]
The Politics and Protocols of Streaming
The author is a development engineer for Wheatstone Corp. This article is based on a paper prepared for the 75th NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference. Conference videos and proceedings are available at https://nabpilot.org/beitc-proceedings/. (Getty Images/natrot) The broadcast industry is in a transitional phase, heading toward a world in which a large portion, perhaps even […]
A Stream of Thought … on Streaming
For radio stations, streaming of our programming has changed considerably over the past decade. In the early days, it was a novelty. It represented just another way for listeners to “tune in” to their favorite stations. There was little in the way of value in an internet-delivered stream, but many stations got on the bandwagon […]
KOEZ(FM) De-Ices, Optimizes With Dielectric
The Dec. 22 issue of Radio World features our Buyer’s Guide for antennas, RF support and power products. Buyer’s Guide features application stories like this one. Saga Communications station KOEZ(FM) in Iowa, serving the Ames and Des Moines markets, completed installation of a new Dielectric DCR-C ring-style antenna this fall. The circularly polarized, center-fed antenna […]
Keep Your RF Plant Cool, Clean and Well-Grounded
Jeff Welton is Nautel’s regional sales manager for the central U.S., but that job title doesn’t capture his better-known role as “go-to” guy for technical tips, problem-solving and entertaining public presentations. The industry has caught on. In 2018 he received the Society of Broadcast Engineers James C. Wulliman Educator of the Year Award. In 2019 […]
BDI RF Power Monitors at Work
The Dec. 22 issue of Radio World features our Buyer’s Guide for antennas, RF support and power products. Buyer’s Guide features application stories like this one. Here’s an example of how Broadcast Devices DPS-100D series RF power monitors are being used in an FM combiner installation. “Pictured are two DPS-100D-3-1/8 RF power monitors at the […]
Trends in Transmitters 2022
The quality of professional broadcast transmitters available today is unquestionably high. That’s good news for radio engineers and managers who are in the market for a new one. If someone hasn’t purchased a transmitter in a while, what should they know? What are the most important recent developments in how they are designed and manufactured? […]
Kubernetes Brings Broadcast to Next Level
The author is Chief Technology Officer of 2wcom. This article originally appeared in the ebook “What’s Next for Virtualization?” Virtualizing software, especially using containers, makes it much easier to run the software on standard server hardware instead of dedicated broadcast devices. It is a very good exercise to build platform independent software. It definitely was […]
New Year’s Notions
Ten predictions for 2022