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Editor's Note
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Top Story
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In this explainer, attorney Gregg Skall says that the commission's rules that require radio towers to be fenced off are particularly important for AM radio towers. The tower structure itself, Skall explains, acts as an antenna and is typically energized with radio frequency radiation.
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News & Business
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The Society of Broadcast Engineers' Washington D.C. Chapter will host the Oct. 7 half-day free event about shared antennas and combining systems.
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The AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act will be the final item on a list of seven proposed laws to be considered Wednesday by the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Observers expect the committee to approve the item, and if so, the next step is to send it to the full House for consideration.
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Free eBooks and Resources
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Regulatory
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Weather Alert Radio Network sought to sign LPFMs in 106 different hurricane-prone communities. Its latest argument, surrounding the definition of the word "jurisdiction," failed to convince the FCC’s Media Bureau.
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Tuesday Trivia
| Alternative Broadcast Inspector - 1% |
| Equal Employment Opportunity representative - 1% |
| Public Inspection File manager - 6% |
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Under FCC Rule § 73.1870, the licensee of each AM, FM, TV or Class A TV broadcast station must designate a person to serve as the station's chief operator. At times when the chief operator is unavailable or unable to act (e.g., vacations, sickness), the licensee shall designate another person as the acting chief operator on a temporary basis.
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Workbench
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| The borescope led Todd Dixon right to the “missing” fuses so his claw grabber could retrieve them. |
It pays to have friends. And for Todd Dixon, market engineer for Crawford Broadcasting in Birmingham, Ala., he estimates that his friend's borescope saved him 10 hours of work in identifying a failure in WXJC(AM)'s transmitter's upper power module.
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