BSW Director of Business Development John Lynch will feature two products for display and demonstration. The first is the new AM Processor from Orban, six years in development. The XPN-AM-ND is an entirely new concept from the legendary Bob Orban. Longtime broadcast engineer and Vice President of Orban Labs, Mike Pappas, will make the presentation.
Participating via SKYPE will be Alex Bonello, also a veteran broadcast engineer and President of INSOFT LLC. His company created the BSW exclusive Visual Radio System known as HDV-Mixer.
Join us Wednesday, May 15th at 12 noon at iHeartMedia, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive in San Diego. Lunch will be provided by BSW. You’re always welcome whether a member or not.
If you find yourself at the NAB Show in Las Vegas this year, make yourself an appointment to join us at the SBE national meeting, Tuesday, April 9 at 5:00 PM in Room N234, upstairs in the North Hall. These meetings move fast, and there are nice door prizes given at the end of the hour. A Membership Reception starts immediately thereafter and across the hall. This is a great opportunity to network with industry leaders and fellow engineers.
Yours truly will receive an award at the national meeting for having served for ten years as the Chapter 36 Certification Chair.
Also consider stopping by the SBE booth, LN4, meet your officers and administrators; buy a T-shirt, book, or cap; and enter the daily drawings for a giveaway prize.
On Saturday, April 6, just a few blocks away at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel, the SBE is presenting a full-day tutorial on ATSC 3.0 organized by SBE Fellow Fred Baumgartner. Fred, past manager at Qualcomm MediaFLO, is now director of the Next Gen Broadcast Implementation at One Media – Sinclair Broadcast. This comprehensive, all-day learning opportunity is open to all and costs $95 for SBE members and PBS member station employees and includes lunch. Register here.
KVCR San Bernardino switched to channel 5 from channel 26
KSWB San Diego then switched to channel 26 from 19
KPBS San Diego then switched from channel 19 from 30
If you are an over-the-air viewer with a TV antenna rather than cable or satellite and you can’t receive some of the local TV stations, you will need to perform a RESCAN on your TV for the new channel lineup. Press your remote control MENU button and find the SIGNAL or ANTENNA submenu, then select AIR (not CABLE), then AUTOPROGRAM or SCAN or RESCAN. Not all TVs have the same menu titles, so you may have to consult your TV set owner’s manual. Yeah, sorry you threw that away. Check out YouTube, maybe.
What was once UHF-TV channels 38 – 51, recorded by a spectrum analyzer in University City, San Diego, March 15, 2019 by Gary Stigall, Signal Wiz, Inc.
Let’s look to see what’s going on, channel by channel. New information in bold:
15 – XHTJB, public TV “Canal Once” (channel 11) moved from channel 46 in September 2018. The FCC website has this allocation placed in Ensenada, but they’re actually in Tijuana.
16 – KDTF, Entravision’s LATV outlet, moved from channel 51 on Mt. San Miguel on November 16, 2018 using their same broadband panel antenna. They were granted a Construction Permit on February 21, 2019 to allow them to stay on 16.
17 – KNSD, NBC Universal, moved permanently to channel 17 on March 14, 2019. They had installed a new Rohde & Schwarz transmitter and UHF Dielectric Pylon antenna installed by Wireless Infrastructure Services (“WIS”).
19 – KPBS, San Diego State University’s PBS outlet, had their antenna installed by WIS in 2018 and moved from channel 30 on March 26, 2019, taking over channel 19 from KSWB, who moved to 26.
20 – KZSD, a UHF outlet of Scripps, is up on Mt. San Miguel and broadcasting a repeat of their channel 10 lineup since November 2018.
21 – XHDTV Tecate, an Entravision-leased signal from Cerro Bola, Mexico near Tecate, moved from channel 47 on March 15, 2019. Manuel Rojo says they installed a new 32-panel antenna array.
24 – KBNT-CD on Mt. Soledad made the switch from channel 25 on March 14, 2019, at 6:00 AM, according to Chief Engineer Manuel Rojo. They have a new Harris transmitter and new antenna installed by Wireless Infrastructure Services at the KGTV transmitter site.
25 – KHAX-LD Vista has a CP to get exclusive use of channel 25. KBNT-CD switched from 25 to 24 on March 14.
26 – KSWB, Tribune’s Fox affiliate, had WIS install their Dielectric slot pylon antenna last fall. They moved from channel 19 on March 26. KVSD-LD from Mt. Woodson received a Silent STA on October 15, 2018.
27 – XHBJ Tijuana moved from 44 before November 30, 2018.
30 – KPBS moved from channel 30 to 19 on March 26, 2019. Tijuana will take over this channel in the future.
31 – KSDY-LD changed from 50 to 31 on February 8, and was granted their construction permit for channel 31 on February 21. KTCD-LP will share channel 31 from Mt. Woodson at 140 W ERP omni-directional.
35 – KVSD-LD has a CP to take over channel 35, but they filed with the FCC for a Silent STA in November 2018 and have yet to return to the air.
36 – KSKT-CA Mt. Woodson returned to air in early March, 2019 with shopping channels.
39 – KZSD-LP STA on Mt. San Miguel became KZSD-LD and moved to channel 20 in time for their November 30, 2019 T-Mobile takeover date.
40 – KNSD-TV moved to channel 17 on March 14, 2019.
46 – KTCD-LP Mt. Woodson, an Entravision signal, remains on channel 46 with a very low power analog signal. They will move to channel 31 digital as soon as possible.
47 – XHDTV went off-the-air March 14 and is expected to move to channel 21 soon.
50 – KSDY-LD moved to channel 31 on February 8, 2019.
51 – KDTF Mt. San Miguel moved to channel 16 using an STA before the November 30, 2018 T-Mobile deadline.
While AES-67 Audio over IP and now AES-70 (GPIO and Control over IP) are popular in the radio broadcast world, a little known standard called IEEE-802.1 (also called AVB), is continuing to grow in the TV/Film, Production, Automotive and Consumer Industries. AVB (“Audio Video Bridging”) is an Audio over Ethernet (AoE) mechanism with auto QoS. With its growing popularity many other industries, the IEEE is positioning this technology to replace HDMI in entertainment systems, gaming consoles and TV Displays. AVB provides a mechanism for intuitive control and discovery. AES-67 is an Audio over IP (AoIP) topology, and while development is ongoing for “control and discovery”, (as is AES70), it’s poised to become the industry standard for radio broadcasting. We’ll outline key differences and typical applications for each protocol.
Al Salci of Sierra Automated Systems and Engineering Corp. visits us Wednesday, March 27 at 12 noon at iHeartMedia, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive, San Diego. He provides lunch, then will give the presentation. Members and guests are all welcome.
About our Guest Speaker
Al Salci is a veteran analog and digital designer, and software engineer with over 35 years experience in broadcast communications. Originally from Toronto Ontario, Al holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Toronto College of Electrical Engineering & Technology. Al started his career in Television Broadcast designing time code products for Telcom Research, Evertz Systems and Leitch Video. Al moved into radio in 1983 as Director of Engineering for McCurdy Radio Industries where he developed audio consoles, switchers, intercoms, and other audio products.
Later, Al joined RTS systems in Burbank as Senior Digital Design Engineer and developed 4-wire intercom systems to enhance their 2-wire TV camera communications networks. Al Salci teamed up with Ed Fritz, another veteran design engineer in Burbank and started Sierra Automated Systems & Engineering Corp. that specializes in high-density digital audio distribution and management systems, audio control console surfaces, large-scale AoIP systems, and fully integrated intercom systems. SAS is celebrating over 34 years.
SBE Chapter 36 held an online election and named its new lineup of officers.
Chairman Tony McDaid and Vice-chairman Mike Curran each took a second term.
Oscar Quintanilla, veteran headend engineer at Cox Communications, volunteered to take on the role of Secretary-Treasurer. He’s an Advanced Class ham radio operator, KF6YB. He and Chris Durso maintain several VHF and UHF ham repeaters around town.
All three ran unopposed.
McDaid thanked Secretary-Treasurer Jessica Colyer and Program Chairman Bart Schade for their service in the past year. Meeting program management will be performed by the executive committee in the coming year.
