Notes from Previous Meetings

At our April meeting chapter member Ed Treese brought in an item that was located in engineering storage at 1480.

It is made of rubber and has a small weep hole.  So – what is it?

Tribute to John Battison

Chriss Scherer, CPBE CBNT, editor of Radio magazine, past president of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE), and local SBE chapter 59 member paid tribute to the founder of the SBE and former technical editor of Radio magazine, John Battison (1915-2012), during the SBE’s Awards Banquet at the 2012 National Meeting on Oct. 24, 2012.

At the meeting on Thursday, March 8, 2012, Greg Best presented a program titled “Spectrum Analyzer 102+”.

PDF Version of Greg’s Power Point Presentation

During his presentation Greg referenced the book “Fundamentals Of Spectrum Analysis”.  A PDF version of this book can be found on-line and is available for free download here:  http://www.ictregulationtoolkit.org/en/Publication.3588.html

Chapter member Kit Peters presented a discussion on the basics of IP and best practices for security IP-based devices at the meeting on April 21, 2011.  The slides from that presentation can be found online here:

http://www.slideshare.net/kitpeters/ip-for-broadcast-engineers-7703864

At the meeting on January 13, 2011, Bruce Roberson of Digital Alert Systems presented a program on CAP and EAS.  He has generously provided the slides from that presentation.

Download Here (~11 MB):  EAS Presentation_SBE59_Jan2011.pdf

Additional EAS info provided by Digital Altert Systems:

DAS BeltwayNews January2011.pdf

DAS BeltwayNews Feb2011 final.pdf

The latest news from Digital Alter Systems can be found here.

At the meeting on Thursday, December 9, 2010, Greg Best presented a program titled “Spectrum Analyzer 101+”.  Here are links to some of the information presented:

PDF Version of Greg’s Power Point Presentation

Links to Reference Material:

App Note 63 for Fundamentals
App Note 134 for Intermediate Subjects
App Note 1298 for Advanced Topics-Digital Communications
App Note 1303 for Advanced Topics-Noise-Like Signals
App Note 1316 for Advanced Topics-Amplitude Accuracy

These links refer to items on this web page: http://www.hpmemory.org/ressources/resrc_an_01.htm

Minutes from past SBE Chapter 59 meeting can be found online:  Here