The FCC appears to be moving quickly toward allowing FM broadcasters in the United States to use computer modeling software for their directional antennas. A new draft order has come forward just six ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In mid-September 2021, Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned Dielectric shared for the first time how the company literally changed how FM broadcast antenna manufacturers validate ...

Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned Dielectric has literally changed how FM broadcast antenna manufactures validate directional pattern studies for new FM broadcast antennas. In fact, the company’s ...

Last year the FCC changed its rules to make it significantly easier for FM radio broadcasters to verify their directional patterns. The report and order gives FM and low-power FM applicants using ...

Back in the day, building a DIY radio was fun! We only had to get our hands at a germanium diode, make some coils, and with a resistor and long wire as an antenna maybe we could get some sound out of ...

One of the first antenna projects many new operators make is the simple 2-meter "J pole." Usually made out of copper plumbing pipe (and called by a variety of names including plumber's delight and ...