How antennas are made

[@ivoryjohnson4662]

That man is a walking radio encyclopedia

[@Dennis-uc2gm]

As a ham radio operator that was antenna's at a whole other level. Great tour and nice to see "made in the USA".

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Indeed! That was a side comment my host made on the tour. That area of Indiana is one of the last major manufacturing areas in the country.

[@bluemoon5719]

when the guide is that much knowledgeable, you know the business is legitimate and respect worthy 👏

[@bobrickner5900]

ERI just made us a custom FM 1204-1CP-DA antenna and finished the installation last Monday! Was quite a project! Great bunch of guys/gals!

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Nice! Yeah they are great!

[@billbingham1498]

Fascinating tour Bill.

[@rowanjones3476]

I'm out of the broadcast industry now (worked more in satellite/fibre distribution) but I still keep an eye on things. I've taken a more personal interest in machining recently - I always found high power RF to be a fascinating intersection of industrial machining and the dark art of RF propagation, so this was great to see. Looks like they keep the carpenters busy there building test fixtures too. Would have been there all day asking questions! Thanks to you and Richard for the tour.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

The whole tour was about 2.5 hours. There was so much that we talked about.

[@jennifershuppert7023]

It’s amazing to see all the various steps and how much hard work, time and effort goes into building these complex structures. Thanks for the tour.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Thank you for watching! I enjoy hearing from viewers like you.

[@bobqzzi]

I understood about 2 in 10 words in this video, but still enjoyed it very much.

[@basshorseman998]

Thank you...I come from 1970's broadcast radio technology and my ongoing ham radio fields, so anything discussing these topics is fascinating...wish I could have been along.

[@thearchibaldtuttle]

As an electronics engineer I find this very interesting!

[@jennifershuppert7023]

So, I just have to say this has been very helpful! I like to help educate my kids when we drive by certain things, so they’ll have more awareness of their environment and how things work in society. Needless to say, this was very eyeopening and makes us feel grateful for the technology that we have around us; which makes enjoying our entertainment possible.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

I’m glad it’s helpful. 😘

[@peterguest1603]

Fantastic report. I felt like I was there. Fascinating.

[@patriot7083]

Fascinating for sure! I totally understand, appreciate, and respect all of the engineering, manufacturing, testing, and precision that goes into all of these amazing products that deliver TV and radio signals to the public all around the world. Thank you so much for this inside look.

[@morofry]

If that Channel 13 antenna is from where I think it came from, I watched a lot of Saturday Morning Cartoons off of that antenna.

[@OnTheRoadInMaine]

Thank you so much for doing this interview/tour. It is really hard to find videos like this online. Great video!!!

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

I’m trying to do more of these! Hopefully I can do more factory tours soon.

[@arcticradio]

Great video! I can only dream of ERI coming to my rescue here with a mast! I’m chasing companies that are demolishing towers but never get anywhere. Bill was great, a man of knowledge of his field. Thanks for your videos they are so relevant to me right now as my station is starting out. 🙏

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Thanks for watching!

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

Thanks Bill for sharing you knowledge and time I enjoyed your enthusiasm very much that is a very impressive business you have there.

[@davidsharp3110]

Great tour of a cool facility. Thanks!

[@TheTarrMan]

This video was fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

[@cdorcey1735]

"World-traveling tower crew member" would be pretty cool job! (25 min. point)

[@RoadJournal]

great video!

[@fredflickinger643]

Eye opening from the EE side!

[@WA2SVM]

Awesome tour. Nice to see where the products are built. Say hi to Tom!!

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

I didn’t see him on the tour. Maybe he was out on vacation or on a job site.

[@isettech]

In the 90's I was working in Grand Cayman and worked maintaining Radio Cayman (the government station) and the non government station. At the time that was 2 FM stations, and the government station had an AM station, and a low power transmitter on Cayman Brac. The transmitter on Brac was the only solid state transmitter at 200 watts.

[@oldroscoe2590]

Probably the best video I'll watch all day, A lot or engineering and work goes into the antennas so we can watch Gilligan's Island and listen to rap music. Amazing stuff.

[@CuttinChopps]

Thank you and ERI for allowing the tour! What a brilliant guy he is! Place reminds me a bit of the gatesair factory. You should tour that plant some time, cool people too.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

I would love to do that! It’s a little off from my east coast base of ops but I might be able to make it happen. I need to find an in there.

[@CuttinChopps]

@@TheBroadcastEngineer @TheBroadcastEngineer They have classes. I was there for VAXTE training a few months ago there, I think the tour was part of the training. almost EVERYTHING from , cabinets, chassis, etc even filters, all made in house. Impressive facility and people. It was awesome to see employees we pestered along the way to take time to answer and explain questions from the group in detail. I also think BE is there in Quincy as well...

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Training classes mean I have to pay them for it. If I can get them to sponsor a video… 😉

[@Ybarra505]

Aweome video thanks

[@JamesHalfHorse]

Awesome. I have never seen what my bays look like up close. When the tower guys were replacing a feed line after a lightning strike they offered to let me "ride the hook" to investigate them and like no no we engineers stay on the ground for good reasons. I hope they were kidding. Antennas are some dark arts I am only beginning to learn. It amazes me 20kw is putting out 100kw after the antenna through the magic of gain.. I think a couple of ours are ERI but not sure I would have to check the records.

[@GALAXI10R]

Toda una enciclopedia en antenas El Ingeniero , me imagino que, si no todas las estaciones de radio grandes, la gran mayoría tienen una antena hecha por el. Mis respetos y admiración larga vida para El.

[@migalito1955]

Interesting. On the other-hand, being simply an amateur operator, except for the large diameter coax and its accessories I don't know what I am really looking at antenna wise. To me VHF & UHF are small antennas. These things seemingly called rototillers are huge. My curiosity is peaked...

[@whuffer5103]

I'll bet that place smells awesome!

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Very manly smelling. Like a machine shop.

[@McSlobo]

Greetings from Europe. Last time I checked radio stations around here were about 50 to 100kW, TV goes into MW range. Maybe in Central Europe things are different because it's so packed compared to fringe areas and most of the USA.

[@securitycamera8776]

100KW is probably what in the US we call Effective Radiated Power. Transmitter power times antenna gain. The station I worked at had a TV transmitter output of 25KW peak but the ERP was 316KW peak.

[@philliplopez8745]

Plumbers of a fluid much more exciting then water .

[@anythingwithgkc]

interesting vedio. Thanks

[@mark-]

So interesting !

[@k4sbb829]

This is so cool I’m not to far from there I’m in Kentucky

[@jhonsiders6077]

thats not too far from me they are just east of Evansville IN

[@DCDura]

It would have been nice to actually see antennas being built instead of a walking tour of the factory areas and all kinds of parts. Title is very misleading.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Thanks for your feedback.

[@cmptrnerd6]

Wow, I drive through Chandler every day on my way to Evansville.... I wonder if they need a computer engineer for anything. Do they do anything with microcontrollers?

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

They might. They have so much going on there.

[@whuffer5103]

call em up. I'm sure they still have good old paper applications

[@gizmo9987]

I want him to be my grandpa!

[@cdorcey1735]

I'm not sure I see the point of running electric wire through PVC conduit, when the wires are just as conductive. Unless, of course, they put RF chokes in the electrical wiring, and/or hide it behind Eccosorb.

[@cdorcey1735]

Newburgh - used to be a factory, then "used to be a restaurant..." Not many people around. Anywhere. (~30:00)

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Looked touristy

[@A3Kr0n]

I want to see how they make telescoping antennas. You know, the ones that always broke when you crashed a model airplane you spent 100 hours building.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Ha! I didn’t see any evidence of those there.

[@whuffer5103]

The pricing of this better be equal to medical instrumentation and procedures

[@jamesmatheson4746]

I saw an 8 Bay FM antenna in Tucson AZ. Not a Great Idea to use so many bays near mountains.... That horizontal beam will multipath with 8 bays.

[@BartKus]

4:38 GOD. GUNS. COFFEE. 😄

[@jerrydemas2020]

They call them self's a antenna company! I didn't see and coat hangers, aluminum foil or rabbit ears.🤗

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Hahahaha!!

[@mototola86]

Thats where all the dark magic happens

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Hahahaha

[@whuffer5103]

2000 ft self supporter blows my mind

[@turbo2ltr]

That's what I said, I think he meant 200 because there's no way what is in that picture is 2000 ft.

[@dsmreloader7552]

2 1000 ft self supporters

[@turbo2ltr]

@@dsmreloader7552 I don't even think that picture was taken from 1000ft.

[@woodhonky3890]

Was he saying rototiller?

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

At what timestamp?

[@woodhonky3890]

@@TheBroadcastEngineer I'll have to go back and look, but he said what sounded like rototiller several times throughout the video.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

@woodhonky3890 ahh yes. Rototiller.

[@woodhonky3890]

@@TheBroadcastEngineer Sorry to bother you, but what is it? Forgive my ignorance.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

@woodhonky3890 no worries! The rototiller design is one of their circularly polarized FM antennas.

[@Lyle-In-NO]

Great video, however, I'd love to see a more in-depth on how antennas are actually made as stated in the title.

[@ThumperKJFK]

[@sparkybluefox]

Bravo ! Very well done tour ! Thank you so much for presenting this tour. 73 sbf

[@mspeir]

I'm an electronics hobbyist but never really cared for microwave/RF/etc. What I do find extremely interesting though is that most of the filters and tuning devices are really nothing more than precisely designed and shaped empty volumes. I swear it's witchcraft!

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

@@mspeir Right? It’s magic!!

[@snakezdewiggle6084]

So I'd be the guy running around touching everything.😉😆. Why do people differentiate FM antennas from all others.?

[@BVN-TEXAS]

I am guessing because of the polarization and frequency of FM a broadcast vs TV.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Haha! So many shiny objects there. The difference is mainly because of polarization and frequency. The higher the frequency the smaller the antenna. Polarization basically determines the shape.

[@Oliver-kv2mm]

All that was is a factory tour, not much about how they are made. Please correct your title.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

If you didn’t watch it you didn’t hear about how they’re made. This isn’t a “I’m going to instruct you on how to build your own antenna using the proprietary secrets of ERI.” There’s lots of videos on how to make antennas out of measuring tape and bailing wire on the ham channels.