Broadcast Engineers – especially Radio engineers – work behind the scenes to bring you most everything we listen to, including web-delivered audio. With encouragement from Leo himself, broadcast engineer and radio station owner Kirk Harnack brings you This Week in Radio Tech. Along with co-hosts Tom Ray, Chris Tobin, and Chris Tarr, TWiRT episodes feature sage audio advice, "There I was..." stories, and instruction from some of the sharpest minds in audio media technology today. TWiRT is smart, informative, and lots of fun for audio, RF, and packet-loving geeks.
Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy these older episodes from the TWiT Archives.
                        
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                                                    TWiRT 134: Bees in the Feed Horn - This week we talk about nanotechnology, tiny capacitors, skin effect, and bees in the feed horn.
                                                
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                                            2012-06-21
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                                                    TWiRT 133: Friday Night is for Calculus - This week, Chris Tarr and I tackle tough issues including Friday night calculus, dead birds and strobe lights.
                                                
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                                            2012-06-14
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                                                    TWiRT 132: Time, Ticks, and Tarr - This week, Tom Ray gives us a tour of WWV, the station that's all time all the time.
                                                
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                                            2012-06-07
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                                                    TWiRT 131: Tennessee Car Zapper - Gentlemen, start your bulldozers! And a story about the Tennessee car zapper.
                                                
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                                            2012-05-31
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                                                    TWiRT 130: War Stories - War stories of radio engineering from the trenches with our guest Curt Yengst, Assistant Engineer at WAWZ radio.
                                                
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                                            2012-05-24
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                                                    TWiRT 129: Bill Harland gives us a tour of the ERI factory and how to put two big signals together efficiently.
                                                
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                                            2012-05-22
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                                                    TWiRT 128: John Poray joins us to talk about where are all the new young engineers, and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-05-09
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                                                    TWiRT 127: Tune for Darkness - The Space Shuttle Enterprise does a flyby of New York, is Harris Corp. getting rid of its broadcast division, and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-05-02
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                                                    TWiRT 126: Kirk NAB's Tom's Beer - What we saw at NAB in Vegas, streaming, filters, transmitters, and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-04-25
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                                                    TWiRT 125: Live at NAB - TWiRT live from NAB Show 2012!
                                                
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                                            2012-04-18
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                                                    TWiRT 124: We NAB'ed Gary Kline - NAB is coming up next week, we get a chance to talk to Gary Kline Senior VP of Engineering and IT at Cumulus Media.
                                                
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                                            2012-04-11
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                                                    TWiRT 123: Engineering for Content - We engineers tell programers what to do all over again, and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-04-04
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                                                    TWiRT 122: Chewy in the Middle - Online help forum for radio engineers, we open up a "Pandoras" box of online streaming philosophy, and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-03-28
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                                                    TWiRT 121: Big Bottoms and Aural Excitement - Explore the tech of the APHEX Aural Exciter, and big bottom a staples of audio production.
                                                
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                                            2012-03-21
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                                                    TWiRT 120: Can You Repair These Tubes? - War stories of radio engineering from the trenches with our guest Dana Puopolo Chief Engineer WURD Radio.
                                                
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                                            2012-03-14
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                                                    TWiRT 119: Paul Shulins - HD Radios, personal people meters, complacency in the engineering office, and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-03-07
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                                                    TWiRT 118: Distorted Monkeys - We talk about the social network just for broadcasters, Commotion, and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-02-29
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                                                    TWiRT 117: 4 Kilovolts and Counting - Kirks is broadcasting from Riga Latvia, EM testing, a tour of a radio station and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-02-22
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                                                    TWiRT 116: Decoding HE-AAC - Tutorial of HE-AAC, digital audio info, High-Fidelity Streaming Audio Player, and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-02-15
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                                                    TWiRT 115: 13 Studios and a Engineer - Take a tour with Kirk and Chief Engineer Dylan Scott at COX Media Group in Tampa Florida, to see the inter workings of a Radio Station and more.
                                                
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                                            2012-02-08
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