I am trying to help someone out, he has a Denon home theater receiver and gets pretty crappy AM radio reception with it using the included AM antenna. I tried a cheap amplified Radio-Shack AM/FM ...

To use a smaller antenna, we need a higher signal frequency, and that’s what we do when we apply modulation to the signal. Modulation is simply encoding the low frequency signal in the information of ...

Mike Murrey hired on as engineer at WJMC(AM/FM) and WAQE(AM/FM) in Rice Lake, Wis., back in 1998. He took one look at the 459-foot tower serving WJMC on 1240 kHz and knew it would need to be replaced ...

(Toledo News Now) - Tired of high cable and satellite bills, but afraid to downgrade to a basic TV antenna, because you know how poor reception can be? We've found a new solution to high TV bills that ...

Radio World asked several of our contributors to attend various sessions at the NAB2003 convention. Here, Michael LeClair summarizes presentations at “IBOC DAB – Ready For Prime Time” of the Broadcast ...

While we can’t argue that FM has superior audio quality and digital streaming allows even higher quality in addition to worldwide access, there’s still something magic about hearing a weak and fading ...

When it comes to actual antennas in the real world, much of our knowledge is empirical. We know very broadly theories that explain how a point charge radiates (Maxwell’s equations), the need for ...