Date: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
Time: Gather at 5:00pm, Meeting at 7:00pm

Location:

Penitentiary Glen Reservation
8668 Kirtland Chardon Rd
Willoughby, OH 44094

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From Blake Thompson, Program Chair SBE CH.70

 Our next meeting on Tuesday Aug. 11th is the always popular Picnic/Election meeting and we’ll be back at the even more popular Penitentiary Glenn Reservation, the home of Lakeshore Live Steamers. Frank Foti, will co-host with his Live Steamer, Eastwind. You can arrive any time after 5 pm. Our election meeting will be at 7pm, with the foods arriving somewhere in between. Take I-90 to the Mentor Rt -306 exit. (See map on page 2.) Head south on Rt-306, passing Lakeland Community College on your left. Proceed down the hill to the light at Rt-615 and turn left. Go a few tenths of a mile to the light at Kirtland-Chardon Road and turn right. ‘Penitentiary Glen Reservation is exactly 2 miles down on the right side. Pull into the main parking lot and the railroad is located just behind it. You will see a picnic pavilion to the right of the parking lot and we will be to the side of the walkway that goes to the pavilion. On another program note the OBEC conference is on Wednesday September 23rd. We have another full slate of interesting programs including new IT breakout sessions this year. Go to http://oab.org/engineering/obec/ to register and get more info. It’s looking like another good conference.

Date: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
Time: Gather at 9:45am, Meeting at 10:00am

Location:

Idea Center at Playhouse Square
1375 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH

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From Blake Thompson, Program Chair SBE CH.70

Our next meeting will be at the Idea Center at
Play House Square in Cleveland on Tuesday July 14th from
10:00 am until noon, lunch will be provided. David Rodriguez
has invited us all to a session focusing on the
changes to broadcast infrastructure relating to the migration
to Video over IP. This session is sponsored by Evertz Microsystems.
This will not be a sales pitch but rather a chance
to learn from leaders in the broadcast industry. It is also a
great opportunity to ask questions and learn from your peers.
You are welcome to share this invitation with your colleagues.
Make special note of the time, 10 am – noon, our
short business meeting will run after the program! The location
is at 1375 Euclid Avenue, and Parking is available in the
Play House Square parking deck located at East 13th and
Chester.
Please RSVP to david.rodriguez@ideastream.org by
10 July 2015 so he knows how many lunches to get.

Date: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting at 7:30pm

Location:

WKSU Studios
1613 East Summit Street
Kent, OH 44242

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From Blake Thompson, Program Chair SBE CH.70

Our next meeting on Tuesday June 9th will be back at
the WKSU studios, 1613 E. Summit St. Kent, Ohio 44242,
hosted by Chuck Poulton. Our program will be from Gary
Liebisch of Nautel about their new HD Multicast system.
He will be highlighting the Technology Demonstration that
Nautel’s Philipp Schmid showed at NAB, whereby it was
demonstrated that it is possible to put 15 multicast digitalonly
signals in a 600 kHz channel, or 9 multicast signals in
a 400 kHz channel using a single transmitter. The implications
of it being technically feasible while maintaining
compatibility with existing receivers opens up futuristic
possibilities for sharing of facilities among multiple stations
for spectrum efficiency, or for accommodating existing
AM’s on the FM band. The usual times apply. Gather at
7pm with our business

Date: Tuesday, May 12th, 2015
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting at 7:30pm

 

Telos Alliance
1241 Superior Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114

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Our next meeting on Tuesday May 12th is back at our home base, the Telos Alliance HQ, 1241 Superior Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114. The program will be an NAB recap of all the cool new gear the Alliance de-buted last month, including the ‘Talk of Vegas’ 25-Sev-en Systems Voltair unit. Plus many more from the Om-nia group starting with their Omnia 7 processor, the VOCO 8 mic processor, and Omnia SG9 stereo genera-tor. Linear Acoustic had their MT-2000 bitstream ana-lyzer, Aero-soft software based TV processor, and SDI X-node. On the Telos side they showed the Zephyr I-port Plus multi-channel IP codec and updates to the Z/IP Stream family of web coders. As you can see we’ll have plenty to see and talk about. Usual times apply, gather at 7pm with our meeting at &:30 and the program to follow that.

Date: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
Time: Gather at 6:45pm, Meeting at 7:15pm

 

Radio One/Cleveland
6555 Carnegie Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44103

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We get to go to a NEW place again this month. Our next
meeting will be at the new home of Radio One/Cleveland located
at 6555 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland, 44103, where our host will
be Gary Zocolo. The program will be the SBE White Spaces
webinar presented by Joe Snelson, CPBE, 8-VSB. The FCC is
now allowing unlicensed wireless devices to operate in vacant,
or TV White Space, channels as well as accommodating unlicensed
microphone use. This webinar provides an overview of
what the FCC has authorized for unlicensed devices and how
this will impact the daily operations of a broadcaster, news organization
or production company. These rules impact us in so
many ways it seems like a ‘must know’ topic.
Since this webinar is 90 minutes we’ll gather at 6:45-7pm
with our business meeting at 7:15, and the program to follow
that. Gary will also give interested folks a tour of the new facilities.

Date: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
Time: Gather at 7pm, Meeting at 7:30pm

 

Kent State TeleProductions
1325 Theater Drive
Kent State University 44242

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Our next meeting on Tuesday Feb. 10th will be back at the Kent State University -TeleProductions Department in the Center for the Performing Arts building (formerly Music and Speech Center) at 1325 Theater Dr., Kent, OH 44242. Our hosts will be Allen Fenner Video Engineer and Dan Tonelli Engineering and Operations Manager. Park in the tiered parking lot in front of the building. Parking is free after 5pm.

Date: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Time: Bus leaves at 1:00pm, Tour begins at 1:15pm

This meeting/tour is open to pre-approved guests only

Our next meeting, on Tuesday January 13th at 1 pm, is somewhere new again, and it isn’t really even a meeting. As you should have seen in the emails going around in Dec., we have the opportunity to tour the NASA SCaN Testbed Project Center. Ed Miller has been working with NASA on the local frequency coordination issues that came up and made the contact for this one. The Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program is responsible for providing communications and navigation services to space flight missions throughout the solar system.

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Date: Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Time: Gathering at 7:00PM Meeting at 7:30PM

Our next meeting on Tuesday November 11th will be somewhere else new again! We will be meeting at Normandy High School, 2500 West Pleasant Valley Road Parma, OH 44134. Our host will be David Droes who runs the Broadcasting Program there.

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