Tech Talk: Coax Isolation on Shared AM Towers

Traditional AM isocoupler installation

Most people think of an isocoupler as a capacitor or loop pair inserted in a coax line of sufficiently low impedance at the coax frequency to pass that signal without undo loss and VSWR, while looking like a high impedance at the AM frequency so as to not disturb the base impedance too much. There [...]

A webinar truth: AM and wireless are compatible

AM Collocation Installation

LBA Group’s successful June 16 webinar, under sponsorship of WCAI, was titled “AM Radio: Traps and Promises in Broadband Deployment.” The question-and-answer session that followed suggested a better title might have been… “AM Radio and Broadband Wireless can Co-exist? Really? I Didn’t Know That!” Under-awareness of AM and wireless compatibility continues to run through the [...]

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 [...]

Stay tuned: More about LBA Power Line Detuning

Power Line Detuning

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 [...]

BROADCASTERS SURVIVE ECONOMIC PERIL WITH HELP OF LBAʼS RESOURCEFULNESS

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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 [...]

LBA ANTENNA SYSTEMS BOOST AM QUALITY AND STATION PROFITABILITY

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 [...]

AM Detuning – If its Broke, You Gotta’ Fix It!

Detune Box

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! [...]

New LBA Lighting Choke Feeds Tower Strobe Lights

Providing an AC feed to strobe lighting systems on high power AM towers can be problematical. The ring-type chokes often used for tower light feeds on high voltage towers often do not function well under the low pulse loads of stroboscopic lighting systems. These problems can cause overheating and burn out of seemingly adequately rated [...]

AM Detuning Powers Up New York High Voltage Line

Utility constructors installing AM detuning system on East Greenbush 345 KV transmission tower.

Lawrence Behr Associates cleared the path for a new electricity transmission line in New York that that could not be energized until interference problems with a Rensselaer, N.Y., AM radio station were resolved to the satisfaction of the New York Public Utility Commission. After extensive onsite and computer analyzes, LBA engineers determined that 8 of [...]

AM towers and wireless carriers can thrive together

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Can wireless carriers and AM radio station towers partner? You betcha! There is a proven collocation engineering system that successfully weds wireless antennas and AM towers. In this blog, Lawrence Behr, founder and chief executive officer of LBA Group Inc., explains how it’s done. Historically, the wireless industry has been warned to steer clear of [...]

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 [...]

Patent Permits New Antenna Site Options

July 25, 2002 (Greenville, NC) – The U.S. Patent Office has granted Lawrence Behr a patent for a new system which helps resolve the critical requirement for wireless antenna space by making thousands of AM broadcast towers available for cellular, public safety and PCS industry use. Offered by LBA Technology, Inc. as the CoLoCoil™, this [...]

Patent Permits New Antenna Site Options

November 16, 2001 (Greenville, NC)– LBA Technology, Inc. is now shipping the latest generation of its CoLoCoil™ AM tower site wireless isolation systems. Because CoLoCoils™ permit the installation of 3G, cellular, PCS, and other wireless antennas on existing AM broadcast towers, site acquisition is simplified and made more zoning friendly. Time-to-market and costs of deploying [...]