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The authorities are very picky about the bench-tested qualities of radio and television gear in professional use, and specialization of capabilities across different brands leads to best of breed gear options. It is a very serious business and I have the highest regard for the radio and television engineers who oversee such gear.

For outsiders it is a bit like thinking about how an RPI5 could theoretically run medical gear in an operating theatre or control the just-in-time processes of a major factory, but would regulators and insurance providers go for it? For amateur broadcasting, sure, an RPI can have fun uses like this:

https://github.com/cdzombak/pi-fm-player






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