[BC] Modulation Monitors...

[Robert Meuser]

Burt:

First I will plead guilty of having a mod monitor in every North American 
station where I have been - often two or three. Outside North America, there are 
many places (most of Europe as an example) where mod monitors were never used.

That being said, I never except as a matter of last resort used it to determine 
compliance or as a detector for measurements. I will admit to using them on FM 
for pilot injection. The flashing lights do enhance transmitter tours.

I have never seen any government entity anywhere use anything other than a scope 
and/or spectrum analyzer for compliance measurements.

I do think that Belar has come up with some interesting tools that go way past 
the average mod monitor.

R

Burt I. Weiner wrote:
> Not only that but if it's working properly it gives you a quick way to 
> see if you are in compliance.
> 
> Burt
> 
> At 10:00 PM 7/21/2006, you wrote:
> 
>> I suppose I'm from an Olde School but having a modulation monitor 
>> allows me
>> to run a proof, to check frequency response and distortion and noise.
>>
>> Oh, forgot, those things are of no concern now.  Sorry.
>>
>> - Jim Tonne
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