• February - Mike Adams, professor of radio-television-film,at San Jose State University will be our speaker. His topic is the technical pre-history of radio broadcasting. Mike maintains the website: http://www.charlesherrold.org devoted to local radio pioneer Charles "San Jose calling" Herrold.
• March- Technical innovations in the ADC line of TV and DTV transmitters

Many years ago, when Dane left the FCC monitoring truck to go with Hammett & Edison, he made a comment that the job change meant he had to get his fangs filed down.

Having reviewed his recertification packet in the past, I can tell you the article didn't begin to cover all the things he's involved in.

Congratulations Dane.

I hadn't looked into audio cassettes for a few years so I was surprised to find that handheld cassette recorders are virtually extinct. You can get all kinds of players but the recorders are real hard to find. It made me wonder what the news radio stations are doing for field recording these days. The handheld cassette was king. But then, I've been out of radio for 24 years.

I finally settled on a consumer minidisc recorder. The discs are much cheaper than DAT tapes. The quality is fine for speech. I haven't tried dubbing music onto one but that is what they're promoted for. Looking on the web, I see that there are professional decks and editors but I haven't heard much about how, or even if, they're being used in radio. A possible topic for future consideration.

KRON uses a Zenith exciter with computer correction. Using an HP vector signal analyzer, a sample of the output of the mask filter is used to generate the correction information which is then stored in the modulator memory. No screwdrivers required.