File this under “Duh.” Richard Rudman tells readers of BDR about installing a simple room thermostat as inexpensive over-temp alarm for any facility. The room gets hot and…what?…a contact closes. Done.
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Steve Church Dies
Steve Church, founder of Telos-Omnia-Axia in Cleveland, passed away September 28 of brain cancer at the age of 57. An obituary in Radio World Magazine tells of Steve’s pioneering work with digital signal processing (DSP) in the development of telephone hybrids for broadcasting. He also introduced MP3 digital compression to broadcasting with his development of codecs that could extend audio spectrum for use over ISDN and voice telephone circuits.
Church was born and went to high school in San Diego, and he presented his digital hybrid and ISDN concepts at chapter 36 meetings in the mid-1980s and 1990s.
September 2012 Member News
Chapter 36 welcomes two new members. Michael Clark of AT&T’s UVerse fiber team joined recently. And James Culligan joined as Associate Member. Welcome!
Members Re-elect Officer Slate
SBE headquarters announced national election results that continue the current slate of officers, with some new directors.
New to the board as directors are Andrea Cummis, CBT, CTO, senior director of engineering and operations, WNET in New York, N.Y.; John Heimerl, CPBE, vice president of strategic technologies, WHRO-TV, WHRO-FM, WHRV-FM in Norfolk, Va.; and Wayne M. Pecena, CPBE, 8-VSB AMD, DRB, CBNE, director of engineering, Texas A&M University-Educational Broadcast Services in College Station, Texas.
2012 was the first year the society offered online voting, which saw a 64% increase in ballots cast from the previous year. The total number of ballots cast was 1,313, which were 511 more ballots than in 2011.
Mike Uhl Joins RF Specialties
Michael Uhl of Escondido has joined RF Specialties of California as sales representative specializing in audio systems. Mike is a well-known local audio rep, having worked for Pacific Research & Engineering for over 20 years. He also sold for Sierra Automated Systems and Telos/Omnia/Axia.
His local partner, Steve Moreen, will continue as sales rep specializing in RF products.