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 We look back to August 1995 and the 18th annual AMITRA conference of Mexican broadcast engineers. As usual, AMITRA 1995 had a robust and international slate of presenters and subjects. Among them was LBA’s CEO Lawrence Behr, who addressed the group on “Using Tunipoles and Combipoles in AM Antenna Systems”. The photo shows Engineer Aurelio [...]  Acapulco, Mexico – For the 9th year in a row, the AMITRA Engineer of the Year Award has been presented to a member of the Mexican professional broadcast engineers association by LBA Technology’s own Javier Castillo. Leonardo Dircio was named the 2011 recipient of the award in ceremonies Aug 17-21 at the annual convention in [...]  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 [...]  In 2009, LBA Group Inc. faced the same economic challenge as every other company. It met the challenge by resourcefully building customer value. LBA Group Founder Lawrence Behr talks about the synergism of businesses interacting during stressful times. BSD: What do you mean when you say the LBA Group of companies is ‘resourceful’? LB: Essentially [...]  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 [...]  Many AM detuning systems are in a sad state of repair. This not only violates the FCC rules, but jeopardizes the AM station functioning, and can even lead to civil liability! [...]  In 1974, WTAW (now KZNE) in Bryan – College Station, Texas – home of the Texas Aggies – was 50 years old, an original Texas radio station! For all its years, it had remained a single tower 1000 watt daytime station on 1150 kHz. That was, until owner Rodger (Bill) Watkins resolved to increase coverage [...] On August 15, 2007 the FCC issued an NRPM to explore the use of FM translators by AM stations. Among the issues to be examined is program origination at night over FM translators by daytime-only AM stations. The proposed rulemaking comes about as a result of a petition by the National Association of [...]  FCC Docket MM93-177 sets out to adjust FCC rules regarding the adjustment and measurement of AM directional antenna arrays. It also seeks to modify the manner in which the reradiation impact of nearby structures is considered. Today, all towers within a fixed distance of AM antenna systems must be evaluated. Under the new proposals, only [...] |
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