The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) is the only organization devoted to the advancement of all levels and types of broadcast engineering. The Philadelphia SBE - Chapter 18 - serves southeast Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware. Visit us at sbe18.org. With more than 5,500 members and 112 local chapters, SBE provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and the sharing of information to help you keep pace with our rapidly changing industry. SBE amplifies the voices of broadcast engineers by validating your skills with professional certification, by offering educational opportunities to maintain and expand those skills and by speaking out on technical regulatory issues that affect how you work. All this adds up to keeping you at the top of your field, enhancing your value to your employer, or if you are self-employed, preparing you to meet the changing needs of your clients. Who Are Members of SBE? SBE, a non-profit professional organization formed in 1964, is committed to serving broadcast engineers no matter where in the world you work. From the studio operator to the maintenance engineer and the chief engineer to the vice president of engineering, SBE members come from commercial and non-commercial radio and television stations and cable facilities. A growing segment of members are engaging the industry on their own as consultants and contractors. Field and sales engineers and engineers from recording studios, schools, production houses, CCTV, corporate audio-visual departments and other facilities are also members of SBE.In 2009, SBE will celebrate its 45th anniversary. If you have been thinking about becoming a member, we invite you to join now and take advantage of all that SBE has to offer.
Mary Ann Seidler from Tieline Technology talks about and demos Report-IT, the new audio codec app for the iPhone that both NPR and Fox News are using in the field with great success. Mary Ann also discusses the new IPv6 standard and the gradual transition away from IPv4.
Geoff Steadman from 25-Seven Systems discusses advances in audio time compression technology and how it is used in his company's new equipment.
Engineering consultant Larry Will discusses new FCC Rules regarding DTV fill-in TV translators. The translators are meant to restore service to viewers who have demonstrated a loss of service anywhere inside a station's analog coverage area.Larry also discusses the final FCC Rules on digital TV "Distributed Transmission Systems" that will provide a cellular-like service within a station's coverage area.Finally, Larry shows off a homemade antenna based on a YouTube video.A higher-resolution Win...
Engineering consultant Larry Will gives an update on the new FCC AM directional rules which permit much less field work for new stations and major upgrades. He also discusses a proposed FCC Rule consolidating and simplifying the determination of need for detuning nearby towers to protect AM stations.Presenter's corrections to his FCC AM talk:I had a slide set which was prepared before the final FCC Rules were adopted and which contained the broadcast coalition's request. I want to correct some...
William Gellhaus from WMRG Studios describes and demonstrates the Barix Instreamer and Exstreamer products.The Barix Instreamer audio encoder is an intelligent streaming component that converts analog and digital audio into MP3 which it then transmits into the IP network. The Barix products can deliver high quality audio over standard network infrastructure by using standards such as MP3, G.711 and even uncompressed.A higher-resolution Windows Media version is available from the drop-down box ...