SBE Chapter 70

Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Time: Gather 6pm, Meeting 7pm, presentation to follow

Location:
Cuyahoga County Public Library, North Royalton Branch
5071 Wallings Road, North Royalton, Ohio 44133 – Meeting Room 124

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

We will kick off 2020 with a SBE Chapter 70 ‘January Meet and Greet’ on Tuesday, January 14th at the North Royalton branch of the Cuyahoga County Library, 5071 Wallings Road, North Royalton, Ohio 44133 – in meeting room 124. If you haven’t been to a meeting recently, this is an opportunity to catch up with fellow engineers and technical folk that you may have not seen in a while.

The Library is just east of State Road (Rt. 94), on the north side of the road, near the YMCA. There is ample free parking. Due to the Library closing time of 9pm, we will gather beginning at 6pm, with our chapter meeting at 7pm with the program to follow.

Robert Leskovec plans to conduct a “Battery Workshop” for analyzing and maintaining 12V vehicle, and emergency generator standby batteries. He will present a demonstration of a “quite affordable” digital battery analyzer, a new compact battery charger/pulse rejuvenator, and several ‘trickle’ chargers, and discuss things like “why did the battery go dead even though I had it on a maintenance (trickle) charger?” He will then open it up to discussion about others’ experiences. With colder temperatures on the way, this will be timely information to share or update your knowledge on.

We may also have discussion on other topics: EAS, the Repack, or whatever else may be of interest, as time permits.

See you at the library on January 14th!

Date: Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting starts at 7:30pm

Location:
Futuri Media
4141 Rockside Rd. Suite 300 Seven Hills, OH

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

Join us for a ‘rare’ December meeting at Futuri Media, with a presentation by Cornelius Gould. The Futuri Media office is located at 4141 Rockside Road, Suite 300, in Seven Hills. There is ample free parking in the building’s lot. Please use the main entrance, which is at the back of the building just up a short flight of stairs, under a 4141 sign. Come up to the 3rd floor and follow the signage to the Legends conference room.

Download the December 2019 Newsletter HERE [PDF]

Date: Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting starts at 7:30pm

Location:
WOIO/WUAB
Reserve Square, 1717 E. 12^th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44114

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 10 at the Studio Facilities of WOIO/WUAB Channels 19 and 43, located at Reserve Square, 1717 E. 12^th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44114.  The entrance is on the east side of East 12th, between Chester and Superior Avenue.  There is limited street parking, but Reserve Square is in close proximity of Telos, for those of you familiar with the area and parking.  There is also paid parking available within Reserve Square parking garage.  Our host is Bob Kroeger, Director of Technology and Engineering.  We will have a tour of the WOIO/WUAB Facility after a presentation by Don Backus of Rohde & Schwarz, Account Manager of Radio Transmitters.  Gather at 7pm, with Meeting at 7:30 and Presentation and Tour to follow.  Hope to see you there!

Download the August 2019 Newsletter HERE [PDF]

Date: Tuesday, June 11th, 2019
Time: Gather at 6:00pm, Meeting starts at 7:00pm

Location:
Cuyahoga County Library – North Royalton Branch, Meeting Room 124 (or 121 if available, look for the SBE sign)
5071 Wallings Road, North Royalton, Ohio 44133

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman
Over-The-Air Television Reception and how to set up a Distribution System, &

Repack Update: The Vanishing ‘Below-600Mhz’Spectrum

Our next meeting is Tuesday, June 11th as we once again meet at the North Royalton branch of the Cuyahoga County Library, 5071 Wallings Road, North Royalton, Ohio 44133 – in meeting room 124, or 121 depending on availability. We’ll post an SBE sign on the appropriate door, or just look for us as they are down the same hallway. The Library is just east of State Road (Rt 94), on the north side of the road, near the YMCA. There is ample free parking. Due to the Library closing time of 9pm, we will gather beginning at 6pm, with our chapter meeting at 7pm with the program to follow.

We will feature a presentation that covers OTA (over-the air) reception techniques with regard to TV, ways to set up an OTA distribution system in your home, and even info on how to incorporate TV-guide info and other tips, presented by Robert Leskovec and Jim Arcaro. We will also have an update on the repack, presented by Jim Baird. This will be very informative with respect to what’s happening with the 470-600mhz RF spectrum, and could be of importance particularly to those using UHF wireless microphone and IFB systems. As the open spectrum is allocated you need to know which channels and frequencies may become unavailable soon or in the not-so-distant future. Your questions during or after these presentations is encouraged.

Date: Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting starts at 7:30pm

Location: Telos Alliance, 1241 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114

From John Hovanec – SBE CH70 Program Chairman

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, May 14 at the Telos Alliance, 1241 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114.  Frank Foti will have a presentation to share that covers their mpxNode, which enables FM Composite over IP.   Also, since it is our post-Vegas NAB meeting, we can touch on a few other fun items from NAB.

Gathering time is 7pm, with meeting at 7:30 and the presentation to follow.  A big ‘thank you’ goes out to Frank and company, who are providing the pizza and pop for the gathering.  Hope to see you there!

Date: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Time: Gather at 6:00pm, Meeting starts at 7:00pm

Location: Cuyahoga County Public Library-North Royalton 5071 Wallings Rd, North Royalton 44133

MEETING/ GATHERING IS IN ROOM 121

Our next meeting is Tuesday, March 12th at the North Royalton branch of the Cuyahoga County Library, 5071 Wallings Road, North Royalton, Ohio 44133.  This is a new library complete with meeting rooms, one of which we will gather in –Room 121 to be exact.  This is one of the larger meeting rooms so we will have ample seating to accommodate any larger than normal attendance, we hope, so pass the word to those that may be interested in the presentation, and come on out TV and Radio folks all!  The Library is just east of State Road (Rt 94), on the north side of the road, near the YMCA.  There is ample free parking, or course.  Due to the Library closing time of 9pm, we will gather beginning at 6pm.  Pizza is spon-sored by our presenter and RFS.  Our chapter meeting will start shortly after 7pm with the program to follow.  Our presentation is by Eddy Vanderkerken of Radio Fre-quency Systems (RFS) as detailed below. Antenna and RF System design for the FCC Repack This presentation will give insight into how antenna design influences radiation patterns, how the design and manufacturing of antennas and RF filters has evolved, and the software tools that can be used to select the op-timum solutions for the TV broadcaster during the FCC repack and beyond.

Download the March 2019 Newsletter HERE [PDF]

Date: Tuesday, November13th, 2018
Time: Gather at 7:00pm, Meeting starts at 7:30pm

Location: Community Focus Studios, 885 East Highland, Macedonia, Ohio 44056

Our next local chapter meeting will be on Tuesday, November 13 at the Community Focus Studios, 885 East Highland Rd in Macedonia, Ohio 44056.  Gather at 7pm, meeting at 7:30 with program to follow.  Our host is Jeff Cole, Executive Director of Community Focus, formerly Cable 9.   From their website: “For 37 years Cable 9 has been providing award-winning television programming to its member communities of Aurora, Macedonia, Northfield Center, Reminderville, Sagamore Hills, Twinsburg and Twinsburg Township.”  “Community Focus provides over 100 hours of weekly programming on Spectrum channel 1021, all local access.  In addition, many high school sports, school music programs and community events [are] available in high definition at MyCommunityFocus.org and the new Community Focus App MyCommunityFocusApp.org, ideal for Smart-TV viewing.”  

Jeff Cole has offered to give us a tour of one of his mobile trucks which they use for coverage of events.  It should be a fun and informative meeting. 

Hope you can make the OB&MTC in Columbus this Thursday, November 8, and if not, we will see you next Tuesday in Macedonia at Community Focus.