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Milestones
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by Charles S. Fitch
A series of occasional articles about important or memorable technologies and products that influenced today's radio broadcast industry.
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Collins 20V Was a Joy to Maintain
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Compared to Other 1 kW Transmitters, These Might Have Been Overbuilt But They Were Great to Operate
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by Charles S. Fitch, 5.21.2008
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My first job out of the army in May 1970 was as chief engineer of a small 1,000 watt full-timer in Hilo, Hawaii.
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Radio Has a Special Place in the Car
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Cruising and Playing the Radio ... With No Particular Place to Go
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by Charles S. Fitch, 2.01.2008
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In a moment of insanity, your brother has loaned you his ‘61 Impala 409 pearlescent red convertible.
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The General Electric Phasitron FM Transmitter
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A Legendary FM Modulator Tube Helped This Fledgling Medium Out of the Nest
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by Charles S. Fitch, 10.24.2007
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In the early 1950s, many saw the emergence of FM on a new band (88–108 MHz) as a waste of time and money. Only a few visionaries, people who were ready to try different paths, create new audiences and serve new needs, succeeded with FM.
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The Transistor Portable Radio
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Regency’s Model TR-1 Was Introduced in 1954 at a Price Roughly Equivalent to $400 Today
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by Charles S. Fitch, 7.18.2007
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Growing up is daunting. All those “rites of passage” through which we must travel. The first day of school, exams, dating, awkward holidays with distant relatives.
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A Little Red Radio: The AA4, Perhaps?
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My Even More Minimal Radio and How It Changed My Life
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by Charles S. Fitch, 4.25.2007
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I wrote in the Jan. 3 RW about “Remembering the All-American Five,” which you can read under the Milestones tab at radioworld.com.
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The CCA 1 kW AM-1000D
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Buc Fitch Continues His Reminiscences About 1 kW Transmitters in Radio's Past
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by Charles S. Fitch, 4.11.2007
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In the foothills of the Rockies are high desert regions so vast that, even when viewed from 35,000 feet, they sweep from horizon to horizon.
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Remembering the All-American Five
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by Charles S. Fitch, 1.03.2007
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America has long had a strange ambivalence towards quality. In electronics, the elements of quality's triple crown — performance, perks and price — are in constant contention. We always want more, for less.
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Gates Built a 1 kW Classic
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by Charles S. Fitch, 10.11.2006
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When you study Rocketry 101 in college, you are taught that if you want the rocket to take off for certain once, you need to design and construct it to take off a thousand times.
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Bauer's 707: Radio From a Kit
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by Charles S. Fitch, 7.19.2006
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For many of us, it's the feeling of magic that brings us into radio. Nowhere in the panoply of broadcasting does that magic seem to reside as potently as in the transmitter room.
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We Can Really Hear You Now
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by Charles S. Fitch, 6.21.2006
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Communications is our business. In broadcasting we use whatever tool works best to make that vital connection.
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The Demise of the First Phone
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by Charles S. Fitch, 3.29.2006
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Have you noticed a trend in how qualification problems are addressed inside the Beltway over the last 50 years or so?
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The FCC Proof of Performance
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by Charles S. Fitch, 7.06.2005
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I was introduced to the international world of broadcasting when I worked at RCA in the 1970s.
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This Pot Reserved for Marti Remote
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by Charles S. Fitch, 5.25.2005
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Looking backwards, things are always clearer.
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CONELRAD
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by Charles S. Fitch, 2.11.2005
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Cold is the temperature of irrational fear, the fear of little understanding.
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The CBS Audimax and Volumax
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by Charles S. Fitch, 2.02.2005
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One in a series of occasional looks back at important devices and practices in radio broadcasting.
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Paul Gregg and 45 Years of Bauer
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by Charles S. Fitch, 10.06.2004
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A Unique Broadcast Opportunity in 1960 Prompted the Creation of Bauer and the 707
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NAB Audio Cart Turns 40
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by Charles S. Fitch, 3.28.2004
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The radio industry will pass a notable anniversary this fall, but one unlikely to be observed by too many people.
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'The Last Watch'
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by Charles S. Fitch, 2.11.2004
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Heraclitus said the only constant is change.
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Bird's Popular Wattmeter Is 50
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by Charles S. Fitch, 4.10.2002
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Among the most valuable tools in any RF toolbox is the Bird Model 43 Thruline Wattmeter. Take it from a man who has fried endless number of IF transformers, transistors and dummy loads in an inept illusive quest for accurate RF information and tuning.
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