Nowadays we take for granted the ability to just turn on our car radio when we want news, music, or entertainment while traveling about. Such convenience was not always the case. Prior to the 1930s, ...

What would an AM transmitter site look like today if built from the ground up, on a piece of property constrained in size and shape? That’s a question Lowell Homburger, principal at Abernat, Roxben & ...

Last month we looked at contributions to the art made by amateur operators, in particular advancements in Amplitude Modulation, or AM, and how it came to give radio its voice. This month, we will look ...

This article originally appeared in Spectrum Monitor magazine. In the early years of AM radio broadcasting, all stations utilized nondirectional antennas. Most all of these were wire antennas ...