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If you’re in the commercial AM radio business, you want to send your signal as far and wide as possible. More listeners means you can make more ad revenue, after all. [Jeff Geerling] recently visited a tower site for WSDZ-AM, which uses a full eight towers to broadcast its 20kW AM signal. To do that, it needs a phasor to keep everything in tune. Or, uh… phase.

Most hams can tell you that it’s possible to get a nasty RF burn if you accidentally touch an antenna while it’s transmitting. However, you can also cop a nasty surprise on the receiving end if you’re not careful, as explained in a video from [Grants Pass TV Repair].

If you've got lots of money but not quite enough for the fastest Cayenne... maybe the GTS will do.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found, nor was the plane. It remains one of the most perplexing aviation mysteries in history. In the years since the crash, investigators have looked into everything from ocean currents to obscure radio phenomena to try and locate the plane. All have thus far failed to find the wreckage.

In one way, the Australian car market has increasingly come to imitate the American one. Trucks now dominate all other models in sales. Kia has noticed this, and it wants a piece of the action. To that end, it’s been pushing hard to get the word out about the 2025 Kia Tasman. The Korean automaker […]

If you don’t have the cash to finance an entire engineering benchmarking team, it’s rare that you’ll get a look inside every nook and cranny of a production automobile. Thankfully, the experts at Munro & Associates are sharing their deep dive on the Tesla Cybertruck, piece by piece. Today, the team is looking into the […]

We like to ask questions at The Autopian. We wanna know about your favorite cars, or the challenges you’ve had keeping your fleet on the road. Normally, we throw out friendly questions to learn about the automotive lives of our readers. But not today! I’m here to ask you an altogether rude and more pointed question. […]

The new-generation Toyota Camry has just landed for the 2025 model year. The Camry has long been the Default Car thanks to its value for price, willingness to serve, and unimpeachable reliability. Since the latest Camry has just hit the scene, it’s the perfect time to compare Toyota’s latest iteration of the long-running family sedan […]

The launch of the refreshed Tesla Model 3 had one thing missing—an update for the Performance model. Today, the new fast one has finally been announced. It comes with a spec sheet that should please whatever the EV equivalent of a revhead is, but there is a curious devil in the details. The new Model […]

Mercedes-Benz sticks by its nameplates decade in, decade out. As the brand’s prime off-roader, the G-Class has become a proud icon in the company’s lineup. As the German automaker heralds the G-Class into the electric era, it’s sticking true to what makes it special, inside and out. In full, the new model is the 2025 […]