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For the latest info on our local
Ennes Workshop 2010 at UTA on September 25, 2010 Click Here You will find a detailed speaker schedule,
Informational posters, UTA location information. This Full-Day of Education at
the UTA Distance Learning Facility includes Breakfast and Lunch, Radio and TV
Technology tracks with presentations by experts from all over the country.
Chapter 67 is pioneering a new Student Track with Education in
Wiring, Antennas and the Fundamentals of IP at Special STUDENT Pricing.
Invite a student or intern to the event and send them to the Student
Registration Page to sign up.
The Chapter 67
Meeting on July 29th
Featured Bill Robertson
from Digital Alert Systems with “The Road to Compliance” - Important
Information For Radio,
Television, Emergency Operations Centers, Production and Master Control
Operators. Bill Explained the new CAP program part of the EAS system upgrade in
a lively meeting
The June Chapter 67 Meeting was held Monday June 21st at MPS Studios
Larry Bloomfield presented Taste of NAB 2010 Roadshow Co-Sponsored with SMPTE and food
was provided by Dan Sessler at RF Specialties of Texas and Warren Bottorff from Dielectric.
As
usual, the Show featured drawings and prizes and is presented every year for Engineers who missed the NAB (or even
those who attended) an opportunity to see first-hand what’s new.
The May Chapter 67 Meeting was held
on Thursday, May 27th
Thanks
to Daniel Loeffler, North American Business
Development at MAYAH Communications for an
informative presentation audio IP/RTP broadcast basics along with SIP
servers and other protocols.
Special Notice
Services for former SBE
Chapter 67 Chairman and SBE National Board Member Sandy Sandberg were held at
Restland Memorial Chapel on Wednesday, April 28th
At the April
29th Meeting.
The topic was Audio over IP (AoIP) presented
by Mike Uhl from Telos Systems and
Co-Sponsored by Gary Tibbot of Broadcaster’s General Store.
Mike demonstrated the new IP Codecs from Telos, Audio Processing
technology for Transmission and Streaming and an AoIP Based Console system.
Telos developed the first DSP-based Broadcast Telephone systems and the Zephyr
ISDN Codecs. Mike is well known in the area from his time at PR&E in the
70’s. Gary Tibbot joined BGS in 2002 and many of us know him from the early
90’s at Allied.
At the March Chapter 67 meeting
Thursday, March 25th
Engineering Director, Leslie Kveton gave us a tour of Citadel Media Network Operations Center. Thanks to Leslie for an interesting,
inside Technical look at this major Network Hub. The meeting was well attended
and included a side trip with Kent Kramer to Reach Media’s facility next door
for many who stayed late.
The February Meeting was on the 25th
Thanks to Mark Helms and Stephanie Glockzin of ProAudio.com for an interesting history of Crouse-Kimsey and a demo the NewTek TriCaster
- a complete TV/Radio field
production system that is affordable, portable and small enough to fit into a
backpack. It provides all the tools required to simultaneously record, stream,
and project programs on the fly. An
Ennes Workshop was announced for September 25th at UTA.
The January 25th Meeting was
a tutorial on Loudness
Presented by Linear Acoustics, we travelled
from the first attempts at measuring and controlling Loudness on the radio to
the present technology in use in Digital Radio and TV.
The November/December meeting Featured
Kevin King from Nevion USA
Our thanks to Kevin King, Regional Sales Manager for Nevion USA, who presented Nevion’s ASI Multiplexing, Network
Monitoring/Surveillance for ASI/SDI and HD and the VikinX
Routing system.
The October meeting was held on
Thursday, October 29TH
Thanks to Craig Vaughn from infraredteam LLC
for an infrared boot camp intended to educate and increase our interest in
thermal imaging.
The September Chapter 67 Meeting was
held on Thursday, September 24TH
Thanks to Doug Thompson, representing Linear Industries,
Inc. for hosting an educational presentation on cost effective TV
transmission solutions and 8VSB measurements.
The August Chapter 67 meeting was held
on August 27TH
Our thanks to Ann
Arnold, President of TAB - Texas State EAS Chair and head of the State Executive Steering
Committee for EAS for the latest on new
EAS Systems, Procedures and Compliance. She provided some good insight into the efforts by TAB and others to move EAS
forward Nationally and in Texas.
The SBE Chapter 67 July Meeting was held on Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thanks to Ellis Terry from Nautel - for a lively discussion of advances
in AM and FM Solid State Digital Transmitters designed to help meet the
Engineering challenges ahead in HD Radio.
