The SBE and Los Angeles Chapter 47 will host the Leadership Development Course October 8 through 10 this year.
The event will be held at the KPCC Crawford Family Forum, 474 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105.
Dr. Abram Walton, founder of Ivory Bridge Group, presents this three-day interactive workshop.
Your registration cost includes three full days of instruction, course materials, a recognition certificate and photo. Continental breakfast and classroom beverages are served. Lunch options will be available and will be at the cost of the participant.
This is a highly valuable course for engineers wishing to extend their technical knowledge to people skills and management.
More information and registration can be found here.
June 2025 Meeting, Home Edition
This month, we’ll have a social meeting at the home of Tony McDaid, chapter Chair. Join us on the afternoon of Saturday, June 21, starting at 12:00 noon. We’ll provide a taco lunch with all the fixings. Boy, are we going to have fun!
To reserve your spot and receive location information, send a note to rsvp@sbe36.org.
Here’s some additional information about the gathering:
Continue reading June 2025 Meeting, Home EditionKZTC-LD Sold, Switching to UHF
[Updated 5/27/2025 to reflect FCC actions] The FCC granted the sale of KZTC-LD channel 7 to Intrigue TV of Stamford CT for $187,500 on May 22, 2025.
Two days before, the FCC granted Intrigue TV a Major Change from VHF channel 7 with 3 kW ERP to UHF channel 25 using 12 kW ERP to achieve approximately the same coverage from Mt. Woodson, continuing to beam southward to protect Los Angeles stations. Intrigue had gained permission from the current owners to file for the channel change.
Continue reading KZTC-LD Sold, Switching to UHFKUPA NCE Cancels Construction Permit
On May 5, 2025, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association filed with the FCC to cancel its construction permit for KUPA FM 89.9 (Facility ID 766985) atop Hot Springs Mountain with Warner Springs as the community of license.
According to the manager of KPRI and the SCTCA FM Project, John Fox, “Barring interference from co-channel KCRW in LA and a station in Mexicali, the new class B FM would have been heard in parts of the city of San Diego and thanks to shielding from the Santa Ana mountains, through much of the Temecula Valley, plus most places in between, terrain permitting. The plan was at least initially to simulcast KPRI, Pala, turning “Rez Radio” into a multi-channel brand. It would have been totally solar and wind-powered with a propane generator backup.”
Continue reading KUPA NCE Cancels Construction PermitChapter 36 Meeting May 21 – Bext at iHeartMedia
You may know San Diego distributor Bext for their local repair lab and warehouse full of reliable FM Transmitters, Antennas, RF Filters and Combiners, but did you know they now have a line of transmitters with built-in features like IP remote control, RDS, SNMP, Digital Micro MPX capability, internal audio processor and more? The lower wattage units are now LPFM FCC Certified, too.
Dennis Pieri and his staff engineers will demonstrate their XL FM transmitter line and its audio processor. They plan to bring a compact new FM filter to show off.
Join us on May 21, 2025 at 12:00 noon at iHeartMedia, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive, San Diego. They’re buying pizza, as well.