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The August Chapter 67 Meeting was Thursday night - August 26th with a presentation by B. Morgan Martin, GMA, LLC, Junger-Audio about the the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (the CALM Act. H.R. 1084)  including a discussion on pending FCC legislation for loudness.

It was an excellent explanation of loudness, CALM and Junger-Audio’s solutions for the broadcast industry. 

 

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September 25 is just around the corner. It is Important to register now for the Ennes Workshop.  Click here for the latest ENNES UPDATE

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.

 

 

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To the home of the Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter 67 Inc. We have been an active SBE Chapter since 1979. We are the second largest SBE Chapter in the country. We meet on the last Thursday of every month except December, see below for details. We are proudest of our work in frequency coordination, having established the first "on-line" coordination system in 1983. We think of ourselves as a family, and try to help each other both professionally and personally.

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