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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Engineering consultant David Maxson, a principal with Isotrope LLC, saw Jack Roland’s submission about a mast on a pivot in our Nov. 7 column. The article reminded David of a translator in Newport, ...

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 ...

Dielectric’s low-power TV and FM business continues to grow as the company develops and expands its antenna and RF product portfolio of lower-power broadcast systems. Radio stations in Florida and ...