As the LBA Antenna Turns

Please join LBA Technology in Miami, Florida for this year’s LABS’09 event at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, July 9th and 10th. LBA will display, in booth# 307, not only our time-tested AM Antenna System products and solutions, but also a full line of RF Test & Measuring instruments from world renowned Kathrein & Schomandl.

Demonstrations will be available on:

MSK-200 Universal TV Signal Analyzer, a top-quality DTV & MPEG-2/4 instrument
FIT-70 In-Line Wattmeter with removable RF heads
3024 RF Power Monitor with remote monitoring over Ethernet connection
SafeOne® Personal RF Safety Monitor, alerts to hazardous RF for 50% less than competition

The LTACT tactical communications trailer by LBA Technology is designed as a versatile budget-friendly mobile platform carrying a telescoping, storm-sturdy communications tower and an enclosed operations cabin. Custom configurable, a typical unit is the LTACT-28 furnished with a 48-foot crank-up tower, self-supporting in winds of 70 mph. A wide variety of antennas, lights, and cameras can be mounted. Outriggers stabilize the vehicle during deployment. A deck-mounted diesel-powered generator produces 10 KW of 120/240-volt AC power for over 24 hours. The 28-foot-long 7,000-pound mobile unit rides on a stable quad-tire undercarriage.

The operations cabin contains 80 square feet of temperature-controlled workspace configured as specified by the customer. LBA Technology can fully integrate and test each customer’s preferred communications system, as well.

This year at NAB2009, LBA’s channel partners and integrators featured working Schomandl – Kathrein Test Equipment in their booths. The hit of the show were the MSK-200 and ADAM-3000 digital TV signal analyzers. We bring you some photos of innovative uses of these analyzers.

ADAM-3000 in Houston CH2 Storm Tracker Hummer by TV Engineering Corp.
Television Engineering Corporation, an industry leader in SNG/ENG vehicles, integrated the Schomandl ADAM-3000 Measurement System into the Houston Channel 2 Storm Tracker H2 Hummer Satellite News Gathering vehicle on display at the show.  The feature rich ADAM-3000 was chosen to monitor and analyze satellite signals (DVB-S and DVB-S/2) to ensure signal quality in harsh conditions and provide in depth modulation analysis (QPSK,2K,8K) to maintain broadcast signal quality while pointing out issues for quick correction in zero infrastructure areas for continuing news coverage.

ADAM-3000 in Houston CH2 Storm Tracker Hummer by TV Engineering Corp.

MSK-200 Performs DVB-S2 Analysis at Evertz.
Evertz Microsystems displayed the Schomandl MSK-200 measurement system as support to its integrated digital systems presentations.  The MSK-200 was used to analyze and measure their DVB-S and S2 signal standards and provided modulation analysis for these standards using the real time constellation analyzer feature in the MSK-200.  The MSK-200 is a useful tool for these applications due to its robust feature set which not only analyzes the spectrum and modulation, but provides transport stream information and decoding to maintain optimal broadcasts and signal quality.

Transparent Video Matches MSK-200 to CATV Headends.
Transparent Video Systems incorporated the MSK-200 into their professional headend CATV systems Challenger and Challenger II.  The MSK-200 is used to analyze all CATV standards (J83A,B,C) and also provided 256 QAM Modulation analysis from the headend.  In the show demo TVS broadcast multi-channel signals from their Encoder and the MSK-200 analyzed the spectrum and provided QAM analysis to maintain, install and repair the headend systems.