Milestones
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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The Sta-Level: Effective Audio Control
by Charles S. Fitch, 02.11.2009
Remembering a Simple, Mild, Automatic Audio Gain Control Made by Gates More...
GEP for That Bird Without a Wire
by Charles S. Fitch, 11.19.2008
Internet Notwithstanding, Satellite Remains a Great Tool, So Get the Most Out of It More...
Collins 20V Was a Joy to Maintain
by Charles S. Fitch, 05.21.2008
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. More...
Radio Has a Special Place in the Car
by Charles S. Fitch, 02.01.2008
In a moment of insanity, your brother has loaned you his ‘61 Impala 409 pearlescent red convertible. More...
The General Electric Phasitron FM Transmitter
by Charles S. Fitch, 10.24.2007
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 More...
The Transistor Portable Radio
by Charles S. Fitch, 07.18.2007
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. More...
A Little Red Radio: The AA4, Perhaps?
by Charles S. Fitch, 04.25.2007
I wrote in the Jan. 3 RW about “Remembering the All-American Five,” which you can read under the Milestones tab at radioworld.com. More...
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The CCA 1 kW AM-1000D
by Charles S. Fitch, 04.11.2007
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. More...
Remembering the All-American Five
by Charles S. Fitch, 01.03.2007
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. More...
Gates Built a 1 kW Classic
by Charles S. Fitch, 10.11.2006
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. More...
Bauer's 707: Radio From a Kit
by Charles S. Fitch, 07.19.2006
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. More...
We Can Really Hear You Now
by Charles S. Fitch, 06.21.2006
Communications is our business. In broadcasting we use whatever tool works best to make that vital connection. More...
The Demise of the First Phone
by Charles S. Fitch, 03.29.2006
Have you noticed a trend in how qualification problems are addressed inside the Beltway over the last 50 years or so? More...
The FCC Proof of Performance
by Charles S. Fitch, 07.06.2005
I was introduced to the international world of broadcasting when I worked at RCA in the 1970s. More...