Chapter10.5

FM Radio Field Strength Measurements

Clarence M. Beverage

Communications Technologies, Inc.

William P. Weeks

Hungry Wolf Electronics

Introduction

FM radio field strength measurements provide data that can be of significant value to management, sales, programmers and engineers at the station level and to brokers and FCC attorneys, as well. However, the true value is highly dependent on the quality of the measurement data, and that is set by the knowledge and experience of the engineer obtaining the data, the quality of the equipment used and the way that the data is organized and presented to the end user. An ability to explain the limitations and appropriate use of the measurement data will go a long way toward the users being able ...

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