Tony McDaid as Chairman and Mike Curran as Vice-Chairman took over leadership of Chapter 36 in December 2017. Tony navigated us through the COVID pandemic, setting up online meetings in cooperation with other chapters to attract interesting, timely presenters. Many thanks for their volunteer help.
The current line-up of SBE Chapter 36 officers has been in office since December 2017 and it’s time to pass the torch to a new leadership team.
Continue reading Are You One of Our Next Leaders?Jay Gedanken of Media Excel will be talking about multi-camera synchronization with arbitrary delays on the cameras as well as transcoding.
Register here for the online Zoom presentation Tuesday, October 11, at 6:30 PM, organized by SBE Chapter 47 of Los Angeles.
Jay has been involved in digital video since its commercial inception, around 25 years starting with MPEG 1 to the current technology H.265 often referred to as HEVC. His focus has been on encoding, decoding and transcoding either for storage or transmission over IP, cloud, satellite, terrestrial or virtually any pipe. His background also includes systems design, systems integration and installation as well as pro audio and live video production.
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The FCC dismissed on 9/22/2022 the Non-commercial Educational (NCE) FM station application by Community Public Radio, Inc. for a station on Parsa Peak in Lakeside with the city of license of “La Jolla” on 91.7 (La Jolla is a community within the City of San Diego). The facility would have been co-channel with XHGLX-FM Tijuana (which is not listed in FCC databases, but the FCC has reserved as a Mexican allotment for Tijuana). The FCC also named an allotment for adjacent channel 91.9 MHz in Rosarito, BCN, Mexico, and third-adjacent XETRA-FM 91.1 Tijuana as reasons for the dismissal.
San Diego broadcasters should now get local EAS information from the SBE Chapter 36 EAS page. The site contains EAS resource links and an RMT schedule.
Oscar Medina is retiring from the position of Local Emergency Committee Committee (LECC) Chair and Gary Stigall volunteered to take it, tackling the San Diego EAS plan 2022 revision.
Gary will work with the Vice-Chair of the California State Emergency Coordination Committee (SECC), Richard Rudman, to revise the 2013 San Diego County plan. That plan will be posted when complete.
The EAS broadcast information email distribution will continue from the same MailChimp source, using the same subscriber list. No need to re-apply
It was in August 1999 that local EAS LECC Chair Jeff Williams left for Santa Barbara and passed the position to Oscar Medina, who at that time was Chief Engineer at KNSD (TV). Oscar has maintained a website and helped revise the local EAS plan.
[FROM FEMA Advisory published 8/1/2022]
We recently became aware of certain vulnerabilities in EAS encoder/decoder devices that, if not updated to most recent software versions, could allow an actor to issue EAS alerts over the host infrastructure (TV, radio, cable network).
This exploit was successfully demonstrated by Ken Pyle, a security researcher at CYBIR.com, and may be presented as a proof of concept at the upcoming DEFCON 2022 conference in Las Vegas, August 11-14.
In short, the vulnerability is public knowledge and will be demonstrated to a large audience in the coming weeks.
FEMA strongly encourages EAS participants to ensure that: