SBE Chapter 40

Ellis Terry from Nautel
Ellis will be talking about Nautel products and will be buying us lunch! (Thanks, Nautel!)

Sinbad’s Restaurant at Pier 2, as always, is the meeting place. Wednesday the 27th of March is the date and the times are 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM. No-Host bar starts at 11:30 and we sit down to lunch sometime between 12:00 and 12:30, with the presentation at 1:00 p.m. or so. Valet parking is $5.00. Please RSVP to Paul Black ( paultblack@comcast.net ) or at 925-727-2628 before Tuesday at 2.

Bob Surette from Shively Labs
Bob will be discussing basic concepts of multi-station transmitter antennas and sites, filtering, along with measuring and mitigating intermodulation products.

Robert A. ‘Bob’ Surette is Director of Sales Engineering with Shively Labs, a Division of Howell Laboratories, from 1981 to the present. Mr. Surette was graduated from Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts in 1973 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He has been directly involved with design and development of broadcast antennas, filter systems and RF transmission components since 1974, as an RF Engineer for six years with the original Shively Labs in Raymond, ME and for a short period of time with Dielectric Communications.

He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE, an Associate Member of the AFCCE and a member of SBE. He has authored a chapter on filters and combining systems for the latest edition of the CRC Electronics Handbook and for the 9th and 10th Edition of the NAB Handbook.

Wednesday the 27th of February is the date, and Sinbad’s Restaurant at Pier 2 in the City is the place. Valet parking is available for a fee of $5.00. Times are from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Because we’ve been starting early, I’d recommend a Noon arrival at the latest. Expect the presentation to begin sometime between 12:45 and 1:00 p.m.

Please RSVP to to Paul Black at paultblack@comcast.net or by leaving a voice mail at 925-727-2628 before 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 26th.

FCC - David Hartshorn, P.E.

As we start the New Year, we continue our tradition of having our friends from the FCC as our January guests. David Hartshorn, P.E., will be joining us for a Q&A session.

The usual necessary information; Wednesday the 30th of January is the date, Sinbad’s Restaurant at Pier 2 in the City is the place. Valet parking is available; please plan on feeing the attendants. Times are from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with No-Host bar until about 12:30, at which time we sit down to lunch and do introductions. Expect the presentation starting at about 1:00 p.m. or so.

Please RSVP to Paul Black at at 925-727-2628 or paultblack@comcast.net before 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 29th.

Steve Lampen - Belden

Steve’s presentations are always entertaining and informative. Steve will be talking about Ethernet standards that apply to broadcast audio and video transport over Ethernet.

Ethernet has been around since 1973; many companies who have struggled to make it work for audio and video applications. But those are proprietary systems where often Box A can’t talk to Box B. So IEEE, which owns the Ethernet standard, has been working on a re-write of the Ethernet standard called 802.1BA AVB, and the AVB is for audio and video bridging. Finally, this standard may herald a new way to design, install and operate audio and video facilities.

We will meet at Sinbad’s Restaurant at Pier 2 in San Francisco. Valet parking is available for a fee of $5.00. Times are from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

We recommend you get there no later than Noon. Expect the presentation to begin sometime between 12:30 and 1:00 p.m.

Please RSVP to Paul Black at at 925-727-2628 or paultblack@comcast.net before 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 27th.

Wednesday, December 12th at Francesco’s Restaurant
8520 Pardee Drive (Off Hegenberger Road) Oakland, CA 94621
No-host cocktails at 6:30pm, Hosted dinner at 7:30pm

Primary sponsor: RF Specialties of California, Steve Moreen/Mike Uhl
Additional sponsors:
Nautel – Ellis Terry
Burk Technology – Peter Burk, Steve Dinkel
Moseley Associates – Dave Chancey
Shively Labs – Jonathan Clark
Orban – John Schaab, Greg Ogonowski – LA / Bob Orban – Oakland
Wheatstone/AudioArts – Jay Tyler

There will be no formal presentation.
Limited to 60 attendees, SBE members and spouses/significant others, only, please.
Contact Paul Black to RSVP at
925-727-2628 or
paultblack@comcast.net

Darrin Paley and Mike Erickson
Wheatstone Vorsis

Darrin and Mike will be talking about Wheatstone’s Vorsis radio and TV audio processing line. They will present a brief overview of the product line followed by a more in depth look at how Wheatstone processors (and processors in general) can manage the challenges of music and talk programming in 2012.

We will meet at Sinbad’s Restaurant at Pier 2 in San Francisco. Valet parking is available for a fee of $5.00. Times are from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

We recommend you get there no later than Noon. Expect the presentation to begin sometime between 12:45 and 1:00 p.m.

Please RSVP to Paul Black at at 925-727-2628. Please do this before 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 30th.