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 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 [...]  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 [...]  Most people think of an isocoupler as a capacitor or loop pair inserted in a coax line of sufficiently low impedance at the coax frequency to pass that signal without undo loss and VSWR, while looking like a high impedance at the AM frequency so as to not disturb the base impedance too much. There [...]  The LBA TuniPole® folded unipole installed at WOOW in Greenville, North Carolina celebrates its 35th birthday! And what a 35 years it has been… A dozen hurricanes, winter ice storms, and even a flood a few years ago that covered the whole transmitter building. Yet, the LBA TUP3-200 keeps WOOW radiating a clear, crisp 1000 [...]  Almost 25 years after President Ronald Reagan said the famous words,” Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall”, LBA Group President Jerry Brown meets with representatives of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the recent National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas, NV. Pictured with Brown is Max Sidorov and Victor Shegay. The picture was [...]  The collocation of broadband facilities’ on AM broadcast towers has been recognized by the Federal Communications Commission as one way to expedite the provision of new broadband services. See a video of the FCC Broadband Acceleration Panel with LBA CEO Lawrence Behr. LBA is the leader in providing AM colocation technology to broadcasters and wireless [...]  Ask any TV engineer if synchronization is important to coverage and the response may surprise you. Synchronization in a broadcast or wireless network is often overlooked because the equipment necessary for timing is taken for granted. The base stations’ timing accuracy in the “broadcast” channel is critical to voice, data or video transmission. Synchronizing a [...]  The Federal Communications Commission held its Broadband Acceleration Conference in Washington, D.C. on February 9th, 2011. The FCC thus took another step to further the goal of connecting all parts of America to the digital age by convening leaders from federal, state and local governments, broadband providers, telecommunications carriers, tower companies, equipment suppliers, and utility [...]  In September of 2009, LBA Technology became an authorized calibration center for the Tomco TE1000 Impedance Analyzer (see referenced story.) Since that time, manufacturing of the TE1000 was switched from Tomco to Trewmac Systems Pty Ltd. LBA has now been authorized by Trewmac to repair and recalibrate the TE1000 Impedance Analyzer, including servicing unites that [...]  Greetings and best wishes for this Holiday Season to our friends and customers worldwide. During 2010, our staff members have been fortunate to visit with many of you around the globe, and they extend their personal greetings to you and your associates. May all of you have peace and prosperity in the coming year! Lawrence [...]  Under the title “WNTK Uses LBA to Reap Revenue From Towers”, Bob Vinikoor relates how his stations use LBA Technology’s patented CoLoCoil® AM collocation technology to lease AM tower space to 15 cellular carriers! Koor Communications, Inc. operates a group of five award winning radio stations in New Hampshire and Vermont. In the past, some [...]  Once known as Saigon, and now Ho Chi Minh City, the city at the heart of the southern part of Vietnam is now a bustling metropolis. Among multiple medium wave AM stations there, the Voice of Ho Chi Minh City (VOHCM) has been a local voice for almost 50 years. Now that voice is about [...]  The US Navy counts on the accuracy and dependability of Schomandl frequency synthesizers from LBA to support advanced weapons research, testing and development. The Navy is increasing its deployment of these instruments. LBA has just shipped the first installment of a significant Navy purchase of ND-500D and ND-1000D frequency synthesizers. These will be used at the Naval Air War Center Weapons Division in China Lake, [...]  LBA Technology has shipped a specially built advanced technology Medium Wave Triplexer system to the Broadcasting Corporation of China for installation in Taiwan. This is the second major multiplexer system LBA has furnished to BCC. The BCC site created a number of challenges. Site limitations required that the triplexer operate into an electrically short tower [...]  Broadcast Depot, Ecuatronix, and 305 Broadcast had a greatly received the presentation of the MSK-200 TV Analyzer by John George and Javier Castillo during their recent visit to Miami. The two presented the versatile analyzer made by Schomandl/Kathrein that is equivalent to 10 instruments in one at a price that is less than half of [...]  Tranquility Base, here. The Eagle has landed. The Voice of America had the world’s largest audience ever when it reported in 46 languages man landing on the Moon. It earned trust when it reported on Watergate and the anti-Vietnam protests. In 1968, Czechs battled Soviet tanks in the streets. When Soviet troops forced a Czech [...]  Engineers, grab your Blackberries. Scroll down to an open summer date on your calendar and plug in The Taste of NAB Road Show. It’s back! Co-sponsored by LBA Technology, the Taste of NAB Road Show is returning for a 9th year, bringing to broadcast engineers and technicians where they live the latest electronic equipment and [...]  In his trek around the country, host of the Taste of NAB Road Show, Larry Bloomfield has traveled down the west coast and across the southern coast. Now he is coming into our own home territory, the east coast! LBA will be sending two of their best, Paulo Fernandes and John George out to answer [...]  Like a re-radiating RF signal, positive feedback about a Lawrence Behr Associates engineering job keeps bouncing around cyberspace. Components of LBA Group helped clear the way for an electric power distribution project in New York state, a job that finally wrapped up earlier this year after more than two years of work. The project required [...]  Engineers, grab your Blackberries. Scroll down to an open summer date on your calendar and plug in The Taste of NAB Road Show. It’s back! Co-sponsored by LBA Technology, the Taste of NAB Road Show is returning for a 9th year, bringing to broadcast engineers and technicians where they live the latest electronic equipment and [...]  Running now through Sept. 10, the Taste of NAB Roadshow gives engineers an opportunity to have a hands-on, educational look at many of the key technologies introduced to the professional broadcast market at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas. For those who don’t know, Riverside, CA is the home of the mostly now de‐commissioned [...]  Greenville Noon Rotary Club, LBA Technology, and Ferguson Enterprises joined efforts to send tents to the earthquake victims in Haiti. When Javier Castillo, Director of Broacast Sales received an e-mail from Gilbert Fontaine whose company Power Tech Services is a client of LBA Technology in Haiti, he asked him how could we be of help [...]  Engineers, grab your Blackberries. Scroll down to an open summer date on your calendar and plug in The Taste of NAB Roadshow. It’s back! Co-sponsored by LBA Technology, the roadshow is returning for a 9th year, bringing to broadcast engineers and technicians where they live the latest electronic equipment and ideas showcased in Las Vegas [...] LBA’s own Paulo Fernandes was there for the first few stops on the Taste of NAB Roadshow last week. Paulo was on hand to introduce such breakthrough technology as the Kathrein-Schomandl ADAM3000 analog / digital TV Analyzer and MSK-200 DTV Signal Analyzer and health-protecting SafeOne Personal RF Monitor, as well as the new Taref3 high-precision [...]  Engineers, grab your Blackberries. Scroll down to an open summer date on your calendar and plug in The Taste of NAB Roadshow. It’s back! Co-sponsored by LBA Technology, the roadshow is returning for a 9th year, bringing to broadcast engineers and technicians where they live the latest electronic equipment and ideas showcased in Las Vegas [...]  It’s all about MW broadcast transmission issues 50 KW to 2,000,000 watts – information exchange and discussions, sponsored by LBA. High power MW broadcasting is by no means dead, but many engineers with high power MW expertise are passing out of the industry. We hope to establish a forum for preserving the decades of knowledge [...]  Most busy TV engineers wouldn’t cobble together their own multiple-function TV Test Instruments from add-ons and options unless they found themselves in a technological vacuum. Thanks to Kathrein-Schomandl, no such void exists. The renowned German RF equipment manufacturer has filled it with a universal, easy-to-operate DTV signal analyzer called MSK-200. The versatile MSK-200 not only [...]  The amazing reach of radio begins when electronic waves are transmitted from one antenna to another. For 47 years, LBA Technology has been at this critical junction, constantly improving the quality of broadcasters’ transmissions while preserving their bottom line. LBA Group companies got their start in AM radio over 40 years ago. In the decades [...]  The MSK-200 Universal TV Signal Analyzer is drawing tremendous crowds at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas, filling the LBA booth (SU3327) to capacity. Interest has been overwhelming! There has also been interest in mobile digital TV, Digital TV test equipment, and Time Frequency Standard systems which are economical alternatives to [...] |
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