LBA Group Logistics Director Staying on Top of Export Requirements

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 [...]

President of Mexico Announces New FM Concessions

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. [...]

LBA Group Welcomes Marketing Director, Katie Sneed

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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 [...]

Worker-friendly personal RF monitor from LBA Group warns of cell site dangers

Fieldsense Personal RF Monitor

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 [...]

RF awareness safety course online for wireless site workers introduced by LBA Group

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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 [...]

Multilingual entrepreneur Byron Johnson becomes business development specialist at LBA Group Inc.

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GREENVILLE, NC May 22, 2010 – Telecommunications industry innovator LBA Group, Inc. has enhanced its business development program with the addition of Byron Johnson, a technical specialist and entrepreneur with a background in electronics on two continents. Johnson will continue to concentrate on wireless networking in his new position along with broadening LBA’s overall market [...]

LBA Group Inc. again earns distinction as a top minority-owned business in the United States

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GREENVILLE, NC May 22, 2011 – LBA Group Inc. continues to be ranked highly among minority-owned businesses in North Carolina and the United States. In the latest survey, the Greenville telecommunications company is ranked 25th in the listing of the top 50 minority-owned enterprises in the state and 334th in the listing of the top [...]

How to accelerate spread of broadband access? Put wireless antennas on existing AM towers

AM Tower Collocation

Wireless industry innovator Lawrence Behr, chief executive officer of LBA Group, Inc., had a message for government and industry leaders who assembled Feb. 9 in Washington, D.C., for the FCC’s Broadband Acceleration Conference: A practical way to increase public access to digital networks is to utilize AM radio’s existing infrastructure. Behr was invited to speak [...]

LBA Technology engineers an AM triplexer solution for snug tower site in middle of lake in Taiwan

LBA technical staff with unique 10 KW triplexer for Broadcasting Company of China - tested and ready to go!

Sep 22, 2010 – LBA Technology has designed, built and delivered to Taiwan an advanced technology AM Triplexer system  for Broadcasting Corporation of China. This is the second successful multiplexer project undertaken by the North Carolina company for the BCC. The project is especially notable because the tower site posed an engineering challenge. The AM [...]

Wireless industry veteran Christopher K. Horne becomes chief technical officer at LBA Group Inc.

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Aug 02, 2010 – Telecommunications industry innovator LBA Group Inc. has named Christopher K. Horne, PhD, its chief technical officer. He will officially join the Greenville firm on Aug. 2. Horne, a registered professional engineer, comes to LBA after 5 years as wireless communications manager at North State Communications in his native High Point, N.C. [...]

LBA Group telecommunications executive to address WCAI at Summer Summit

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Jun 23, 2010 – Lawrence Behr, a prominent telecommunications industry executive, will be a featured speaker this month at the “Summer Summit” of Wireless Communications Association International. Other summit speakers include R. Gerard Salemme, the executive vice president of Clearwire, and Bill Payne, vice president and chief technology officer of Motorola Networks. Behr is founder [...]

Taste of NAB Roadshow

May 31, 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 [...]

LBA Technology offers Taref3™ master clock to coordinate signals at the speed of digital

Taref3 Precision Timing Generator

German manufacturer R.A.M. Gmbh draws on 15 years of expertise to produce a precision timing generator for DTV transmission feeds measured in nanoseconds Blinding-fast digital signals generated for DTV are not too quick for the Taref3™ high-precision master clock produced by German manufacturer R.A.M. Gmbh. The instrument is a product of 15 years of synchronization [...]

Kathrein/Schomandl Introduces an MSK-200 TV Analyzer with More HD Test Capability

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April 6, 2010 (Greenville, NC) In an impressive display of responsive engineering, the Kathrein MSK-200 TV Analyzer has been seriously upgraded to meet the U.S. broadcast industry’s need for increasingly sophisticated analysis of high definition TV components. LBA Technology is the western hemisphere’s exclusive distributor of the MSK-200 and other products by The Kathrein Group. [...]

LBA Technology Recognized for 35 years of Service

Greenville, NC February 25, 2010 – LBA Technology has been formally recognized by The Pitt County Development Commission for “35 years of contributing to the success of our community.” The commission thus acknowledged the company’s active presence in the Greenville area as well as its enduring influence in the international telecommunications community. “We want to [...]

LBA Technology Supplies Antenna Solution for US Navy – Guam NAVTEX System

SAMWAS 200 Antenna System

Greenville, NC August 25, 2009 – A new cost effective antenna system for transmitting navigational messages to offshore ships combines an innovative dual frequency compact design and remote control system to produce upgraded broadcast coverage with a space saving tower profile. Ships sailing in waters near Guam have a new connection to shore. The island’s [...]

LBA Technology Appointed Exclusive Western Hemisphere Distributor for Schomandl and Kathrein RF Test Equipment

Greenville, NC October 21, 2008 German RF equipment manufacturer Kathrein and subsidiary Schomandl will exclusively distribute its radio frequency test equipment, including devices for digital TV, radio, wireless, CATV, satellite and laboratory use, through RF systems experts LBA Technology, a unit of the LBA Group, Inc., throughout the western hemisphere. The Kathrein Group and instrumentation subsidiary [...]

LBA Technology Forms Test Equipment Group

Greenville, NC September 17, 2008 LBA Technology has expanded to add a new Test Equipment Group. The new group will take responsibility for existing test products manufactured or sold by LBA. It is also in the process of activating major new third party test equipment distribution agreements under the Group. According to Jerry Brown, President of [...]

SafeOne personal RF monitor alarms the user, not the company's controller

Greenville, NC July 17 2008 LBA Technology, Inc. has just brought a breakthrough budget-pleasing personal RF monitor to market at approximately half the price of the competition, according to Dick Hansson, Director of Marketing. SafeOne™ is an effective and economical means to monitor the strength of electromagnetic (RF) fields from mobile phone towers, radio and television [...]

LBA Group Leaps in Diversity Business Rankings

Greenville, NC, 9 January 2008 – In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading multicultural B2B online portal, has named LBA Group, Inc. for the fourth consecutive year as one of the top 50 diversity-owned businesses listed in the North Carolina Div50, as well as one of the top 50 [...]

LBA Group Makes Premier List of the 5,000 Fastest-Growing U.S. Businesses

Greenville, NC, 29 October 2007 –- LBA Group, Inc. announces that it has made Inc. magazine’s list of the top 5,000 fastest-growing businesses in the nation with a ranking of 3,613 and a three-year sales growth of 80 percent. Inc. 5,000 lists companies, that when put together, represents the backbone of the U.S. economy.  The Inc. [...]

Innovative RF Vacuum Contactor Introduced

Greenville, NC, 21 September 2007 –- LBA Technology announces the availability of the first new generation of RF contactors in years.  These innovative RF contactors respond to the needs of broadcast, communications, and industrial radio frequency users of heavy duty RF relays. The VC-1 high reliability vacuum contactor system is designed for versatility.  One series permits [...]

New AM Tower Isocoupler Introduced

Greenville, NC, 21 September 2007 –- LBA Technology, Inc. announces the CAMI series of new-concept broadband medium-power isocouplers for AM towers. CAMI isocouplers permit other antennas to be mounted on “hot” AM towers. CAMI systems are specifically targeted to isolate single auxiliary broadcast coaxial cables for STL’s, FM translators, low power FM, and television translators. Unlike [...]

George Named Vice President of Domestic Sales

Greenville, NC, 4 June 2007 –- John George has been named Vice President of Domestic Sales at LBA Technology, Inc.  George will be responsible for all sales in the US.  LBA Technology, Inc. is an international supplier of medium wave broadcast equipment including directional antenna systems, antenna tuning units, multiplexers, combiners, cellular/PCS colocation isocouplers, and RF components. [...]

LBA Group, Inc. Named among North Carolina 's Top 100 Small Businesses

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Greenville, NC, 9 February 2007 – In recognition of the economic power of small businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading multicultural B2B online portal, has named LBA group, Inc. for the third year as one of the top small businesses in North Carolina . The Div100 is the 7th annual listing of the State’s top small businesses. Ranging in [...]

Brown Named President at LBA

Greenville, NC, 26 January 2007 – Jerry Brown has been named President of LBA Technology, Inc.  Brown will oversee the day to day operations of LBA Technology.  LBA Technology, Inc. is an international supplier of communications products and infrastructure.  LBA Technology’s clients include major US radio broadcasting groups, Department of Homeland Security, the United States Army [...]

AMITRA Engineer of the Year honored by LBA Technology

Greenville , NC . 12 October 2006– Jorge Garcia Rangel of Grupo Radio Mil in Mexico City , Mexico has been named AMITRA 2006 Engineer of the Year. This award, bestowed by AMITRA, provides a monetary recognition and continuing education scholarship and is sponsored by LBA Technology. AMITRA is the Mexican national professional organization of [...]

Exciting new changes to the TE1000 Vector Impedance Analyzer

Greenville , NC 30 December 2005 – TOMCO Technologies, leading producer of electronic impedance test equipment, has introduced a new version of its respected TE1000 Vector Impedance Analyzer. The new instrument is available in North and South America exclusively through LBA Technology, Inc. Enhanced features now standard in the TE-1000 include: • A ruggedized probe [...]

AMITRA Engineer of the Year honored by LBA Technology

Greenville , NC . 30 December 2005 – Pedro Lomeli of Grupo Radio Mexico in Guadalajara, Mexico has been named AMITRA 2005 Engineer of the Year. This award, bestowed by AMITRA, provides a monetary recognition and continuing education scholarship and is sponsored by LBA Technology. AMITRA is the national Mexican professional organization of engineers in [...]

LBA Gains Recognition for Diversity

Greenville , NC , 20 December 2005 – In recognition of the economic power of multicultural businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading multicultural B2B online portal, has named LBA group, Inc. for the second year as one of the top small businesses in North Carolina . The Div50 is the 6 th annual listing of the [...]