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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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Hubble Telescope’s Top Ten Greatest Space Photographs

The Sombrero Galaxy - voted best picture taken.

Officially titled M104, the dimensions of the Sombrero Galaxy are astounding. Voted as best picture, the galaxy in total has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.

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McMaster Professor Natalia Nikolova and her husband Robert Zimmerman

McMaster Professor Natalia Nikolova and her husband Robert ZimmermanMcMaster research engineer Professor Natalia Nikolova, and her husband Robert Zimmerman, have verified the existence of a new type of radio wave called the Vector Potential Wave. This wave was first predicted in 1880 by British mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, but had never been directly detected until this summer here on McMaster campus in the Communications Research Lab>.

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On August 30th, NPR Labs posted an illustration depicting the coverage areas for public AM and FM radio stations nationwide. The data used to develop this map was last updated in June 2007. The downloadable map is available here. Be aware of slow download times due to the large file size (3.6MB).

Copper thefts from radio transmitters and towers have continued to rise, paralleling the increasing value of copper. Last Wednesday, one such theft became a threatening situation for “Lite 96.9″ WRSA-FM, Huntsville engineer John Macpherson and his teenage daughter. When the station went off the air around 4:45am that morning, Macpherson thought they were in for a routine fix. However, when they arrived at the tower site at Brindley Mountain, two burgulars allegedly were attempting to strip copper from the transmitter.

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