In the huge fires of October 2007, San Diego broadcasters abruptly lost control of their radio equipment on Palomar Mountain and Mt. San Miguel. That fateful week taught us that we shouldn’t rely on the telephone company to provide remote control lines when the video those sites provided arrived wirelessly. Many TV stations moved to wireless control through 900 MHz links, or through 5.8 GHz radios multiplexed on their
existing 6 or 7 GHz video ICR links.

Similarly, radio stations have learned that they can provide an effective secondary, or even primary, audio studio-transmitter link with license-free wireless radios and high-gain antennas.

Vislink, known for decades in Southern California as Western Technical Services, visits our January 2011 SBE meeting to discuss wireless IP radios. Those radios have advanced  considerably in technology, with abilities to frequency hop and use a variety of modulation schemes to maximize throughput and minimize downtime.

Join us January 19 at noon at TV Magic, 8112 Engineer Road, in Kearny Mesa, San Diego. Vislink will provide lunch.

It’s time again to get together just to talk shop, eat, and walk away fatter and happier. There will be no presenter or program. This year, let’s meet at the Kearny Mesa Filippi’s Italian Restaurant at 5353 Kearny Villa Road, San Diego, on Wednesday, December 15, at 12 noon. Please bring $15 cash.

UPDATE: Door prizes have been added!

• Vislink, known for years here as Western Technical Services and Microwave Radio Corporation, has donated an Apple 8GB iPod Nano.
• Harris Corporation is donating a number of tote bags, thermal coffee mugs, multitool, and leather zippered notebook.
• Omnia is donating a copy of Omnia A/XE audio processing/streaming software.

See you there!