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 Washington, DC – For the second time this year, the issue of co-locating wireless antennas on existing broadcast and non-broadcast structures took center stage in the nation’s capital with the Federal Communications Commission sponsoring an expert colocation workshop on May 1. LBA Group’s chief technical officer, Chris Horne, was among panelists dissecting the issue. The [...] As it has become a tradition for Amitra members attending the NAB on Wednesday 18 there was a luncheon at the Las Vegas Hotel that was attended by members and friends of Amitra. During the luncheon, Eng. David Salas extended and invitation for this year Annual Convention which will take place August 9 to 12 [...] During the second day of the NAB it was announced that stations of Grupo Radio Imagen, Instituto Mexicano de la Radio and Univesidad Iberomericana started transmitting using the digital radio technology of HD Radio. Among the participants in the event were Bob Struble, President and CEO of Ibiquity, Luis Fernando Borjon Director for Radio and [...]  The CAMI™ is a new-concept broadband coaxial isolator, or isocoupler, which permits low power FM or communications signals to cross hot AM tower base insulators without interference to either service. A new data sheet is available in English (PDF) or Spanish (PDF). Full information on the CAMI is also at http://www.lbagroup.com/technology/cami-hot-am-tower-isocoupler.php. To purchase a [...]  Lightning season is upon us! Every year, AM towers get blasted because they do not have the right protection against static buildup and lightning. Conventional static drain chokes are in ATU’s, and are often non-functional, if even installed. This permits high static voltages to build up on towers, endangering components, and encouraging lightning hits. The LBA SD-1S [...]  LBA Group is gearing up for an anticipated busier season as the worldwide economy improves. We have reorganized our finance management structure and expanded the ranks of our engineers. We are happy to say that Juliana Price is being promoted to controller/business manager. She joined LBA in 2009 as staff accountant. Juliana will oversee finance, [...]  LBA Group Inc. has completed the first shipment of an ongoing project to supply antenna tuning units to the Republic of India. The government of the world’s largest democracy has begun a massive digital upgrade of its All India Radio (AIR) facilities across the subcontinent. The upgrade will include converting all AIR broadcast facilities, AM/FM [...]  LBA Group’s popular radio frequency awareness training course is now offered in Spanish as well as English. Course management has also been upgraded so that companies can more easily manage the course progress of their employees. “That’s awesome!” remarked one company training executive, a typical executive response when handed the new course management tool. It [...]  Degraded signals are the bane of a wireless system, yet the RF environment increasingly is cluttered with potential hazards to clear signals. One of the most fundamental signal threats is passive intermodulation interference, or PIM. Passive intermodulation distortion exists at some level in all passive systems. But when inferior parts are used or incorrect installation [...]  AM radio directional antenna systems go way back; into the 1930’s. The FCC evolved a very strict body of rules to govern every detail of the setup and adjustment of those antenna systems. From the FCC archives comes this proof of performance done by one of the early and well-known broadcast engineers – Harold Rothrock. [...]  When Verizon Wireless needed to expand its facilities in Wailuku, Hawaii, the local zoning board said, “No.” That’s not the end of the story. Verizon responded by looking for an AM partner with an existing tower on which it could colocate its equipment. There’s the happy ending to the story. Radio station KMVI-AM had a [...]  Wireless buildout work is a business challenge for even the largest tower and construction firms. While worker safety is foremost, every dollar spent on PPE impacts an already tight bottom line. With the current push to have all RF-exposed workers equipped with personal RF monitors, monitor selection becomes a budget critical item! LBA believes that [...]  From its start in 1942, the VOA has been providing news and information programming to people even in the furthest reaches of the world. Since 1962, the VOA Edward R. Murrow Relay Station at Greenville, NC has been providing high power shortwave broadcasts from two huge transmitter sites. LBA is proud to be [...]  Business conventions are for networking. In 2008, Jerry Brown made an India connection that will result later this month in a large shipment of electronic gear to the Indian subcontinent. The LBA Group Inc. president was attending the National Association of Broadcasters annual get-together three years ago in Las Vegas when he struck up a [...]  When Michael Hayden walked onto a tower site near Camden, N.J., in January at the request of American Tower Corp., he was performing a routine RF compliance services inspection. What the Lawrence Behr Associates director of site services found was a rip-off. Literally. Two air conditioning units attached to exterior walls had been ripped open [...]  A Verizon technical manager, just learning about the CoLoCoil®, recently inquired “How well does the product hold up to lightning strikes? I’ve had to change melted isocouplers quite a few times.” This is an excellent question, because the patented LBA CoLoCoil® is fundamentally different from AM isolation devices generically called “isocouplers”. These old-style isocouplers have [...]  Some weddings make you wince. What does she see in him! Not so the merger this week of JAMPRO Antennas Inc. and the Alan Dick Broadcast (ADBL) Division of ADC UK Ltd. It is a wedding of talent and professionalism and holds the promise of producing many good engineering solutions under the Jampro name. California-based [...]  Help! That plea is the gist of calls that come to Betty Perez, director of logistics and resources for LBA Technology. Perez is an old hand at fielding hurry-up requests from LBA customers, but the telephone calls she receives about the fieldSENSE ProHD™ Heavy Duty Pack are in a special emergency category all their own. [...]  LBA Group CEO Lawrence Behr’s persistence in promoting colocation of AM towers and wireless antennas as a means to speeding public access to broadband earned him another invitation to Washington. The executive, along with LBA vice president for sales Mike Britner, traveled to D.C. Dec. 12 to meet with Commission staffers and representatives of radio [...]  Greenville – Betty Perez keeps tabs on foreign shipments for LBA Group, Inc., a task made more complicated for every company by the 2001 terrorist attacks. In the post-911 world, no parcel or palleted material is too innocuous not to be of interest to various federal agencies. Perez participated in a refresher course this month [...]  We look back to August 1995 and the 18th annual AMITRA conference of Mexican broadcast engineers. As usual, AMITRA 1995 had a robust and international slate of presenters and subjects. Among them was LBA’s CEO Lawrence Behr, who addressed the group on “Using Tunipoles and Combipoles in AM Antenna Systems”. The photo shows Engineer Aurelio [...]  Business in 2011 was a challenge for every company in America. Did you notice? Here at LBA Group Inc., our team did a magnificent job of tuning out the static and vectoring in on solutions to customers’ needs. Consequently, we are able to look back on the year with considerable satisfaction and to look forward [...]  During the 53rd National Radio and TV Week and Expo CIRT that took place at the Camino Real Hotel in Mexico City from October 17 to the 20th, the president of the United States of Mexico Lic., Felipe Calderon, announced new FM concessions to which AM broadcasters that want to move to that band can apply. [...]  Keeping pace with the constantly quickening environment of online marketing, LBA Group is growing its B2B marketing team. Graphic designer and content specialist Katie Sneed has joined LBA as business-to-business marketing director, a new position created to coordinate the work of the lbagroup.com website technical and content staff. Among her tasks will be vitalizing the [...]  Windmills have a record of creating havoc with the electromagnetic environment, particularly microwave, SCADA, and cell phone communications. We don’t often see the results of the mechanics gone awry, or of runaway rotors from electromagnetic interference to control systems! Here are some photos of what happens when transmission failures occur in windmills. If You See [...]  Acapulco, Mexico – For the 9th year in a row, the AMITRA Engineer of the Year Award has been presented to a member of the Mexican professional broadcast engineers association by LBA Technology’s own Javier Castillo. Leonardo Dircio was named the 2011 recipient of the award in ceremonies Aug 17-21 at the annual convention in [...]  The fieldSENSE ProHD™ Heavy Duty Pack helps manage personal RF exposure. Greenville, NC August 24, 2011 – Warning: Unseen safety issue! Any wireless technician or employee working outside in varying locations faces just such an issue: exposure to radio frequency radiation. With 250,000 cellular telephone towers sending signals across America, RF safety is a genuine [...]  INARTE-certified staff, college consultants create RF awareness training course that is affordable and convenient so workers can manage exposure. Greenville, NC August 24, 2011 – Wireless technology integrator LBA Group, Inc. is offering an online OSHA-compliant RF awareness training course to help protect wireless industry workers from unhealthy levels of radio frequency. Developed in [...]  On July 26, 2011 LBA received the visit of Engineers Eric Garza, Olivia Falcon and Ramon Baca of Multivision of Monterrey Mexico who as part of the Tour of Factories organized by LBA Representative 305 Broadcast Inc previously visited the Wheatstone Factory in New Bern NC and continued their visit to the LBA facilities in [...]  It is not health scare talk to say that personnel working around wireless antenna sites need to be RF alert. That is common sense, and OSHA dictates it. Now LBA brings the wireless industry a new personal safety monitor at a great price. LBA Technology is exclusively offering wireless tower and site workers the fieldSENSE [...] |
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