As the LBA Antenna Turns

John George, VP of Sales, has taken LBA Technology on the road to Columbia, South Carolina this week. John has a major role in supporting the annual conference, as well as representing LBA products to engineers from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia attending the event. The LBA booth is shown here.  One of the more popular items displayed at the show is the LBA CAMI isolation coil.  This unit will allow easy installation of an FM translator on a “hot” AM tower.

LBA Technology goes on the road again to exhibit at the Tennessee Broadcasters’ Show on January 25 at the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, TN.  More on AM broadcast products here!

For the fourth consecutive year, LBA Group has received recognition from DiversityBusiness.com as one of the top 50 diversity-owned businesses in the state of North Carolina. LBA was also cited as advancing in ranking over last year.

The NC Div50 is the 8th annual listing of the State’s top diversity-owned businesses. The companies listed on the Div50 represent the State’s top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a small or diversity-owned business is insignificant.

Watch this video from Oregon Public Television for heart-stopping views of work on a radio tower at 1000 feet! Rugged tower workers brave winter weather to repair FM broadcast antennas. A rare view of work above the ground. Click here to view.

The main LBA facilities consist of about 20,000 square feet (1860 square meters) in two modern production and office buildings. They are situated on a beautifully landscaped large campus, with adequate parking, storage, and shipping accommodations. We are about three miles (five kilometers) from Greenville, NC.

LBA maintains a large antenna test site in a quiet, rural area several miles from the main campus. With its quiet RF noise and spaciousness, it is ideal for antenna performance tests. LBA maintains FCC licenses allowing test transmissions. In the view above, a TUP-3 mobile antenna undergoes tests, as well as a 100 kW open wire transmission line in the background.

Click here to read more on LBA’s location.

Coli-Cat came to us as an orphan, and now has over five years experience patrolling the LBA premises. Her important duties include warming chairs, rubbing the legs of staff, and patrolling for the occasional mouse. She can always track down a food handout!

LBA Group is excited to announce a partnership with Ex-Im Bank. The Export-Import Bank will support the financing of U.S. goods and services to creditworthy LBA customers in qualifying countries.

According to our CFO Wayne Hildebrandt, this creates a team that empowers LBA to offer highly competitive financing terms to our qualifying international customers.

TOMCO TE1000 vector impedance analyzers show up all over the world when portable, precision RF measurements are needed. Shown above is a TE1000 being used to adjust the antenna system of a TOMCO atmospheric radar system in Norway.

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LBA Group 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 back bone of the U.S. economy.

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In late September, LBA Technology exhibited at the NAB Radio Show in Charlotte, NC. The theme of this year’s show was “Radio Reignited,” derived from the recent collaborative efforts of the NAB, the Radio Advertising Bureau, and the HD Digital Radio Alliance in developing a comprehensive marketing strategy to reposition radio for a more lucrative future.

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