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Spotlight on Nautel Founder Dennis Covill; Member of the Order of Canada, February 12, 2013
Nautel founder Dennis Covill has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for his contribution to engineering and science. A pioneer in the transmitter industry, Covill used revolutionary technologies to design transmitters with smaller footprints, capabilities for redundancy, hot-swapping of modules, and other technologies now considered “basic” to the transmitter industry. Read the story behind how Covill created a culture of engineering excellence at Nautel, now one of the world’s leading companies in its field. |
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Major Investment Positions Nautel for Future Success, February 12, 2013
Nautel launched an extensive upgrade to production equipment at its Bangor, Maine manufacturing facility. These improvements help improve efficiency and capacity and poise the company for significant future growth. Decisions like this have allowed Nautel to nearly triple revenues and dramatically increase shipments in the past few years while maintaining the same factory footprints. |
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Physical Considerations When Buying a Transmitter, November 13, 2012
While a lot of focus is spent on comparing specifications, performance and efficiency when buying a new transmitter, Scott Marchand – Nautel’s FM Project Leader – highlights that there are many physical attributes of modern transmitter design that also deserve consideration. |
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Radio Innovation Comes Full Circle in Quincy, IL, November 13, 2012
Here’s an interesting story about the reason behind the location of Nautel’s Quincy customer service office. Learn how the invention of the car radio ultimately leads Nautel to Quincy, IL many decades later. |
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Nautel at IBC 2012 Wrap-Up, November 13, 2012
John Macdonald, the newest member of the Nautel sales team, had his first opportunity to join colleagues in presenting Nautel’s wide range of advanced products to customers at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam. John shares his experience direct from the show floor. |
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Multiple Customers Use MDCL to Huge Success, April 3, 2012
Hear from four different customers running MDCL on a total of 11 Nautel transmitters – both new (NX) and old (XR, XL & ND). They share how easy it was to implement MDCL, which algorithm they used, their actual power savings, and the zero impact on station coverage and audio quality. |
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Who Says Customer Service Can’t Innovate? October 4, 2011
Going beyond the typical toll-free 24/7 telephone and email technical support services, Nautel’s technical support team, under the leadership of Kevin Rodgers, offers several innovative initiatives to help ‘keep broadcasters on the air no matter what.’ |
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Saving Power with MDCL now FCC Approved, October 4, 2011
Tim Hardy, Nautel’s Head of Engineering and a long-time advocate of energy-saving transmitter technologies by AM stations recently lobbied the FCC to establish procedures for the use of Carrier Control Algorithms by AM broadcasters in the U.S. |
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Nautel’s VS1 puts DRM+ On-Air in India, July 27, 2011
A Nautel VS1 transmitter with VSDRM+ exciter contributes to success in India’s DRM+ trial organized by All India Radio (AIR) and the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) Consortium. |
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Nautel’s Smart Packaging Design, April 5, 2011
Read how Nautel designs ‘Smart Packaging’ solutions using both heavy-duty wooden shipping crates as well as newly-designed cardboard shipping boxes for the VS Series transmitters. |
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Why FAT is Cool! April 5, 2011
Nautel customer Rolin Lintag gives three justifications he uses in order to get Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) approved by employers, and shares his handy FAT checklist you should never go without. |
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Building Quality Products with Smart Design, January 25, 2011
We interview Jim Evans, Head of Operations who explains how Nautel’s design processes and manufacturing processes build quality and ‘Smart Design’ into each transmitter at every step along the way. |
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How Nautel Tests a Transmitter, November 17, 2010
We interview Tim Oakes, Supervisor of Final Test for his perspective on what’s special about Nautel’s testing procedure. |
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Total Cost of Ownership, July 7, 2010
Read our quick and simple explanation for calculating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a new capital expense. |
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Saving Power in AM Transmitters, May 25, 2010
Nautel’s Head of Engineering, Tim Hardy illustrates how advances in AM transmitter technology has significantly improved power efficiency and reduced energy costs vs. older inefficient tube transmitters. |
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Digital Radio Showcase Articles
Digital Radio Showcase is a regular column by Hal Kneller in the Nautel Waves newsletter featuring the latest technical news and information regarding in-band digital radio solutions. |
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Tips ‘n Tricks Articles
Tips ‘n Tricks is a regular column by Jeff Welton in the Nautel Waves newsletter featuring ways to get the most out of your Nautel products. |
