Thanks to our friends at SMPTE DC Section for inviting us to a virtual presentation o "A History of TV" with Mark Schubin on July 30th, 2020, 7:00 PM EDT. Mark Schubin is a multiple-Emmy-Award-winning SMPTE Life Fellow and winner of the Society's Presidential Proclamation in 2017. His histories of Read more…
Our August 11 guest speaker was with Dr. Bob Heil, who joined us for a friendly visit. This meeting was a rare opportunity to meet and learn from a true great of professional audio innovation who is having an amazingly interesting, varied, and rich career. Dr. Heil is widely known Read more…
Our October 2020 guest speaker was Bob Tarsio, President of Broadcast Devices Inc., a manufacturer of audio and radio frequency monitoring products for the broadcast and professional audio industries. Bob covered the following three topics this month: RF Power Measurement and Issues Surrounding Accuracy SNMP in the Broadcast Plant – Read more…
Our November 24th meeting was a very timely presentation from our own Dave Sproul. His topic was: The Beginning, In Between, and End Phases of WMAL's Greentree Road, Bethesda Transmitter Site, Bookended by Details of My Personal Career As many heard from local news reports, WMAL's four, 400-foot tall towers Read more…
With the Presidential Inauguration once again upon us, our January 5th, 2021 guest speaker was Louis Libin of Broad Comm, Inc. Louis has managed Presidential Inauguration frequency coordination since 1981 and has once again been appointed the Designated Frequency Coordinator for 2021. This meeting joint meeting of SBE Chapter 37 Read more…
Our February 9th guest speaker was Michael Guthrie, a premiere Harmonic ATSC Technology Specialist who has been with the company for over 20 years. He has over 35 years' experience in the broadcast industry in engineering, product management, sales and marketing in numerous companies including ABC Television, Solid State Logic, Read more…
Our Tuesday, March 9, 2021 meeting will feature guest speaker Nathan Mumford of RCS. As discussed below, Nate will discuss Remote Hybrid Workflows and Cloud Disaster Recovery. He will also introduce local workflows and discuss the future of radio automation.
The FCC’s C-Band satellite spectrum transition is now upon us. This "repack" will radically reshape frequencies used for satellite signal delivery. In contrast to the prior 2 GHz and DTV repack efforts, some of these changes are coming on an aggressive schedule known as the "fast-track." Our April meeting provided Read more…
Chris Imlay, an SBE Fellow and SBE's General Counsel, was our guest speaker on Wednesday, May 12th. Chris' annual presentation has become a tradition at Chapter 37. This was his seventh consecutive visit since 2015 so we're contacting Guinness to see if this qualfies as a World Record. Those who Read more…
Since FM stereo broadcasting has existed for virtually all of our adult lives, some may take it for granted. However, that would never happen to Richard W. Burden, one of the pioneering engineers instrumental in bringing stereophonic FM to the public. Richard Burden was our June 1st guest speaker. According Read more…
The pandemic brought on a wave of new ways broadcasters needed to work remotely. Rob Lewis, Calrec Audio Ltd.'s US Technical Sales Manager, walked us through several example workflows of how to achieve this with his presentation titled, "Remote Production, Working Remote, Cloud based Production... How Remote do you Need Read more…
Mike Pappas of Orban Labs, Inc. will discuss some best practices for audio processing for online and over-the-air broadcasting, with specific focus on the OPTIMOD XPN-Enterprise ecosystem. OPTIMOD XPN-Enterprise is an easy-to-use, customizable Linux-based processing platform for multiple broadcast stations or streaming services, with centralized control. It provides Orban’s proprietary Read more…