The author is vice president of engineering, Dielectric LLC. This article is based on a paper prepared for the NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference of the NAB Show and is published with ...

FM broadcasters soon will have a new and unfamiliar option when shopping for broadcast antennas. Dielectric has announced it will introduce a pylon FM antenna. It said the FMP line will be “the ...

On today’s episode of “Will It Antenna?”, [Ben Eadie (VE6SFX)] designs and tests an antenna made entirely of tape, and spoiler alert — it works pretty well. By way of background, the basic design [Ben ...

The basic design of the radio antenna hasn’t changed in a century. The antenna is usually a set of metal rods roughly half the size of the wavelength they are designed to receive. The electric field ...