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VOA Greenville – Fifty Years of Shortwave to the World

Open wire transmission lines to a multitude of antennas.

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 [...]

Taste of NAB Road Show August 2010

Taste of NAB Road Show August 2010

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 Taste of NAB Road Show on the East Coast!

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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 your [...]

Stay tuned: More about LBA Power Line Detuning

Power Line Detuning

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 detuning [...]

Taste of NAB Road Show July 2010

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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 [...]

Riverside and Los Angeles Stops on the Taste of NAB Roadshow 2010

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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 [...]

Tents for Haiti

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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 and [...]

Taste of NAB Roadshow - June 2010

Taste of NAB Roadshow June 2010

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 [...]

First stops on the Taste of NAB Roadshow with Paulo Fernandes

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 [...]

Taste of NAB Roadshow - May 2010

Taste of NAB Roadshow May 2010

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 at [...]

Medium Wave Heavy Metal -the new subgroup of Radio-TV Broadcasting Transmission

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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 [...]

VERSATILE MSK-200 TV SIGNAL ANALYZER

MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer

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.

MSK-200 TV Signal [...]

LBA ANTENNA SYSTEMS BOOST AM QUALITY AND STATION PROFITABILITY

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 since, [...]

LBA at NAB 2010 Booth Pics

LBA at the NAB 2010 panned out view

LBA at the NAB 2010 panned out view

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 [...]

Live Footage from the NAB

In our recent post LBA Brings Latest Schomandl – Kathrein TV and RF test equipment to the NAB convention floor we mentioned that SPEEDSTREAM.TV Mobile live Broadcast Kit would be sending live footage of NAB events to the LBA Booth (#SU3327 in case you forgot.)  You can now view the same live feed [...]

LBA is in the Clock Business – Precision Time Clock Generators, That Is!

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Digital bitstream synchronization measured in nanoseconds makes precise timing a real adventure for digital TV engineers. LBA Technology Inc. offers harried technicians a better way to mesh the blinding-fast digital signals.

The solution is the Taref3™ high-precision master clock produced by the German manufacturer R.A.M. Gmbh. LBA Technology is exclusive distributor of the instrument in the [...]

LBA Brings Latest Schomandl – Kathrein TV and RF test equipment to the NAB convention floor

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At NAB 2010, LBA’s channel partners and integrators are featuring the latest generation of Schomandl-Kathrein TV and RF test equipment. Where? In Booth  SU3327, South Hall, second level.

Videos that showcase our fine products will be showing continuously on large 42-inch screens. In addition to the internationally renowned 10-instruments-in-1 MSK-200 universal TV signal analyzer and ADAM-3000 [...]

LBA Technology Recognized for 35 years of Service

Award Presentation - (left to right)    Wanda Yuhas, Lawrence Behr, Jerry Brown

“For 35 years of contributing to the success of our community,” reads the citation on the handsome certificate. My, how time flies.

The recognition of LBA Technology by the Pitt County Development Commission came in the commission’s annual reception Feb. 23 at Rock Springs Center in Greenville. LBA Technology president Jerry Brown represented the company in [...]

Tower Job in Trouble for Lack of Crew RF Monitors?

Did your tower crew arrive at the project only to be shut down by the owner until everyone had a personal RF monitor? This is an increasingly prevalent situation as tower owners rigorously enforce OSHA safety rules – including RF safety!

Now LBA has the solution for you – Crew on Ground Priority!

We are stocking SafeOne® [...]

Keeping Spooky Black Hat RF In The Box!

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Have you ever wondered how you could make a safe and secure wireless test setup for wireless access point configuration, wireless network interface card configuration, wireless network sniffing, WEP cracking, rogue access point detection, wireless-based DoS attacks, or other black hat exercises?

Under the direction of Dr. Lee Toderick, the School of Information and Technology at [...]

AM Detuning Mission Accomplished

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As the most experienced firm offering AM detuning services, LBA gets some complicated requests. LBA’s professionals are mostly unsung when they accomplish these missions.

Kathryn Tesh and the LBA team recently set straight a cellular tower detuning project in the Pacific Northwest, saving the cellular customer considerable money in the process. So it [...]

New LBA Lighting Choke Feeds Tower Strobe Lights

Providing an AC feed to strobe lighting systems on high power AM towers can be problematical. The ring-type chokes often used for tower light feeds on high voltage towers often do not function well under the low pulse loads of stroboscopic lighting systems. These problems can cause overheating and burn out of seemingly adequately [...]

LBA Group Partners with Balboa Capital to Provide Customer Leasing Solutions

LBA has partnered with Balboa Capital Corp. to provide lease financing plans for LBA Technology RF and test equipment resellers and customers.

Recognizing the needs of our customers for financing flexibility, LBA has made available leasing services from one of the preeminent business oriented finance groups in the US.  Balboa Capital is a national leader in [...]

New LBA Technology Index

Check out the new LBA Technology Index page.  We would appreciate your comments and suggestions on the new design!

LBA’s October Exhibit Schedule for Schomandl/Kathrein Test Instruments

LBA Technology is offering the top-of-the-line Kathrein MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer for hands-on demonstrations at the following October events:

October 6-7 in Verona, NY at the SBE22 Broadcast Technology Expo presented by LBA Reseller Broadcasters General Store in booth# A18

October 13-15 in Madison, WI at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association “Broadcasters Clinic“, presented by LBA Reseller Broadcasters [...]

The MSK-200 Universal Digital TV Tester Gets Even Better!

New MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer with Many New Added Features!

New and improved MSK-200 Analyzers have arrived!
(LBA Sales Executive Paulo Fernandes)

Since LBA introduced the Kathrein MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer to the Americas last year, it has been enthusiastically welcomed by TV engineers. As an economical portable or fixed 6 ‘n 1 digital signal test solution it was without compare. And we have had [...]

LBA Technology Supplies Antenna Solution for US Navy Guam NAVTEX System

Installing SAMWAS-200 ATU

Installing SAMWAS-200 ATU

Ships sailing in waters near Guam have a new connection to shore. The island’s NAVTEX navigational telex broadcast system has been upgraded by replacing three conventional 300’ vertical towers with one small aperture SAMWAS antenna.

The unique SAMWAS medium wave antenna system is a product of LBA Technology, a North Carolina telecommunications [...]

Summertime is Lightning Time – Are You Protected?

Lightning flirts with a 335-ft tall radio tower. Credit: Jeffrey K. Herzer/Missouri State Highway Patrol Communications Division.

Every radio engineer and tower owner is painfully aware of the toll that lightning takes on broadcast and communications installations each year.

The mechanism for how towers attract lightning is not really understood. But scientists have known for a long [...]

MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer Steals the Show!

LBA Technology’s presentation of Kathrein / Schomandl RF Test Equipment generates overwhelming interest from South American visitors at the LABS’09 (Latin American Broadcast Show) going on now in Miami, FL. The MSK-200 TV signal analyzer can be seen in the center of the photo above.

LBA’s latest Authorized RF Instrument Reseller, 305 Broadcast, [...]

LBA Exhibits at the Latin American Broadcast Show

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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 [...]