Mike Curran renewed his CEAV certification recently.
Welcome to Andrew Cleveland to the SBE and to Derrik Cullison of Quickplay for returning to the SBE membership.
FCC So Far Not Allowing Area Low Power FM CPs
To date, numerous applications for low power FM stations in San Diego county filed during the October-November 2013 window have been dismissed due to violations of 2nd adjacent channel spacing rules.
In March, applications by Dennis Newsome and The Rice Church for 101.1 MHz stations were rejected. Each is inside the 2nd adjacent channel interference zones for KFMB-FM and KGB-FM in San Diego. Other applicants for 101.1 have yet to be addressed.
An application for 99.5 MHz in Fallbrook dismissed in January has been appealed after moving transmitter location and is awaiting approval.
The FCC requires that applicants have no potential listeners in the calculated 2nd adjacent interference zone, making it virtually impossible to create a low power FM station in a highly populated area or between large markets.
A number of other local applications were objected to by REC Networks earlier, with some of those applications having been withdrawn and others not addressed yet by the FCC. Those objections were based on the allegation that hundreds of applications were filed by the same entity. The FCC requires that each LPFM application be filed by a unique, local person or group.
Interestingly, numerous 2nd adjacent FM stations co-exist just across the border in Tijuana. The practical interference zone for these stations decreases to zero when stations are co-located.
Chapter 36 Announces New Officers
Current Chairman Doug Alman announced the results of the online election of new officers for the 2014 – 2015 year starting in April. All positions were unopposed, and an additional question asked for nominees for the appointed position of Program Chair.
Here are the newly elected leaders:
- Chair – Andrew Lombard, CBTE, Director of Engineering at KGTV/Scripps Media
- Vice Chair – Manny Cervantes, Chief Engineer, U-T TV
- Secretary/Treasurer – Matthew Schiller, CBT, Engineer at KGTV
Andrew will pick a Program Chair, either from the nominees or from the chapter at large.
Jon Crick Retires From San Diego TV Engineering
You would have to have been around Jon Crick during the whole of his broadcast engineering career to appreciate the enormous breadth of his talents and experience. He fixed fixed radio and TV transmitters, enormous videotape machine pneumatic systems, digital videotape recorders, big audio mixing consoles, the Sony Library Management System robotics and studio camera robotics. He operated satellite news trucks big and small, wired 100-amp UPS devices, planned multi-camera shoots, and installed production switchers. The documentation was always before he started a project. Then there are the multiple musical instruments Jon can play with complete competency.
I met Jon Crick when I started at KFMB in 1990 and had the distinct honor of being able to work with him again at XETV from the time he followed my move there in 2005 until I left in 2010. He retired from channel 6 in March this year. Continue reading Jon Crick Retires From San Diego TV Engineering
SBE at the NAB Show
Every year I look forward to the NAB Show. It’s this great change from the daily grind where I get to see old friends and new technologies, often in the booths at the very back of the exhibit halls. And the parties. Did you see Kool and the Gang at the CNN party a few years ago? Wow.
My first was in 1983, when the big exhibitors were RCA and Ampex, both showing off their amazing new 1″ tape machines, their commercial playing robotics systems, and Plumbicon low definition cameras with $30 – $100K price tags.
This year will be #30, after having missed a couple of years in the middle.
The SBE has some great stuff planned for this year. If you have time for nothing else, please make time for the 50th Anniversary Open House Tuesday. And did I mention certification points for attendance?
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2014 Ennes Program at the NAB Show
 The annual Ennes Program opens the NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference at 8 am on Saturday, April 5, and runs until 5 pm. The program theme is “Best Engineering Practices,” and includes a diverse list of topics and subject matter experts. |
| SBE Meetings and Events at the 2014 NAB Show Saturday, April 5 SBE National Frequency Coordination Committee Meeting 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Conference Room 8, Las Vegas Hotel
Sunday, April 6 Tuesday, April 8 SBE Frequency Coordinators Meeting SBE Membership Meeting SBE 50th Anniversary Reception |