In winter, ice, lots of it, frequently forms on towers. Often, this ice is out of sight hundreds of feet above the ground. When the temperature warms, down it comes – from guy wires, tower structure, and antennas! This falling ice can do great damage to tower attachments, vehicles, and structures. It can kill you! [...]
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 You have heard the old saying “splitting hairs” referring to arguing about very small differences or unimportant details. There is splitting hairs and then there is splitting cells – cell splitting to be exact and it is occurring all over the world as wireless service providers attempt to add ubiquitous coverage and more traffic capacity. [...]  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 [...]  Broadcast engineer Larry Bloomfield, founder of the Tech-Notes newsletter and the “Taste of NAB Road Show” died Monday in Eugene, Oregon from a heart attack at the age of 72. In his 9 years running the Taste of NAB Road Show, Larry gave 468 presentations to nearly 12,000 people and drove an astonishing 143,337 miles around the country. Larry Bloomfield wrote his own autobiography that can be found on his personal website [...]  Wireless Internet Service Providers Association The wireless phone industry has many buzzwords and “broadband” is no exception. In fact, broadband is misleading just as the term wireless can be confusing since there are many mediums and technologies that allow communications to exist without wires. The 2010 Broadband Expo was no exception to the buzzwords but [...]  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 [...]  LBA SafeOne® personal RF monitors are helping to keep USFS rangers, technicians, and firefighters safe in national forests across the US. LBA RF safety monitors are on duty as USFS personnel access many remote radio communications sites on both routine and emergency duties. Forest service communications sites have transmitters ranging from milliwatts to megawatts, so [...] While we normally post technical information here on “As the LBA Antenna Turns”, we had an article on this topic contributed by an author on our RF blog with information compiled from several experienced engineers in the industry. Be sure to check it out!  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, [...]  From Wikipedia: ABS-CBN DZMM Radyo Patrol Sais-Trenta (630 kHz Metro Manila) is the flagship AM station of ABS–CBN Corporation in the Philippines. The station’s studio is located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center in Quezon City, while its transmitter is located at Obando, Bulacan. The station operates 24 hours a day except on Sundays where it signs-off [...]  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 [...]  This time, a Christian Talk radio station KKXX 930 AM and 104.5 FM out of Chico, CA reported last week the theft of 22,000 feet of No. 10 copper wire being used to ground its transmitter, bundled into lengths of 10 to 20 feet.This is the second time the station has been hit by copper [...] 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 [...]  Some things never change but wireless and technology is constantly changing. The old ways of the Bell System are long gone. Those that embrace the right change will see opportunities. Change was at the fall meeting of the Carolina Wireless Association (CWA) in Raleigh. There were quite a few new faces this year since the [...]  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 [...]  Three men have been arrested for vandalizing a section of Frontier Communications’ network in Logan County, West Virginia. Four more arrest warrants have been issued. The men disrupted phone and internet service and created a public safety risk for Frontier Communication customers by stealing copper and selling to to scrap dealers. Bail was set for the three men for between $140,000 – $150,000 each while they await trial. They will be charged with a felony at minimum but could also face federal charges because the vandalism violates Homeland Security, interstate commerce and environmental protection laws. [...]  After 15 years of burnishing his career in wireless communications, Christopher K. Horne has “come home” to LBA Group Inc. as the corporation’s new chief technical officer. He officially rejoined the Greenville firm today (Aug. 2). Horne, a registered professional engineer, was a project engineer in LBA’s radio frequency safety program in the 1980s shortly [...]  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. [...]  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 [...]  It took five years and $750 million, but Sprint Nextel has successfully bumped the broadcast auxiliary services (BAS) of more than 1,000 TV stations out of the 2GHz band coveted by Sprint. The wireless company now will take over that part of the spectrum with the blessing of the Federal Communications Commission. Everyone involved seems [...]  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 [...]  The explosion of interest in providing broadband connections throughout the US was evident at the FCC National Broadband Plan & WCAI Summer Summit. The Herndon, Virginia event was sponsored by the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI), the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), and DBC. LBA Group CEO Lawrence Behr was [...]  Free mobile digital TV is coming to a device near you sooner than you might have expected. Free mobile digital TV test broadcasts in Washington, DC, this summer have respondents chirping enthusiastically about the ability to pick up local TV programming on the go. Most test responders are stipulating “high excitement” about having access. It [...]  Britain and other European countries are forging the path to convert to digital radio this decade, with plans to discontinue analog radio altogether. The future of digital radio in the United States is also a hot topic for debate. Canada, however, appears to be backtracking in their approach. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. told the Canadian [...]  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 and chief executive officer of LBA Group Inc. The company offers engineering consultant services and hardware fabrication and distribution worldwide to wireless and communications industry [...] 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 [...]  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 [...] |
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