Frequency Modulated (FM) radio has been used for years in high-fidelity music and speech broadcasting, offering excellent sound quality, signal robustness, and noise immunity. Recently, FM radio has ...

The University of Kent’s hackerspace, TinkerSoc, recently had a talk on software-defined radio using an incredibly inexpensive USB TV tuner. Of course this is nothing new to Hackaday readers, but they ...

Those are traits many broadcasters note of Dielectric‘s many products. Now, broadband pylon TV antennas are coming for FM broadcasters to enjoy. The Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned and independently ...

I am located about 65 miles northwest of Austin, Texas. Been listening to one FM Austin station(93.7) for 40+ years. EDIT: Transmitter distance: 58 miles. For the last couple of years, periodically, ...

A properly tuned FM transmit antenna is essential for your broadcast system to work properly, yet fewer than 25 percent of engineers tune their FM antennas, based upon my 40 years of observation. Not ...

Delivering a 5-dB better sensitivity and a 25% smaller footprint than the company’s RadioAnt, the Activv antenna integrates directly inside a handset and provides a combination of FM reception, ...

The Family Radio Service, or FRS, is a system allowing short-range communications between friends and/or family. The system uses frequency modulation, or FM, signals, improving on the older citizen's ...

Together with a good directional antenna this high performance two-stage antenna amplifier for the VHF FM broadcast band will enable you to capture far removed (DX) stations. Alternatively, it will ...

I’m going to go out on a limb here and start with a statement: In the real world, there is no such thing as a non-directional FM broadcast antenna. An isotropic radiator may be theoretically possible, ...

Q I am getting a new home-theater receiver and my wife said, “Please tell me this one will have better radio reception.” I didn’t think I could control this. I did a search and came upon your article ...

Web site Mac OS X hints has an interesting tip for improving the performance of FM transmitter car kits (you know - for those of us with no tape deck and no auxiliary inputs for our MP3 players): ...