Precision Timing and Mobile DTV – An Introduction

Mobile DTV Receiver

Ask any TV engineer if synchronization is important to coverage and the response may surprise you. Synchronization in a broadcast or wireless network is often overlooked because the equipment necessary for timing is taken for granted. The base stations’ timing accuracy in the “broadcast” channel is critical to voice, data or video transmission. Synchronizing a [...]

The MSK-200 TV Analyzer introduced to Reps in Miami

John George explaining to Broadcast Depot staff the functions of the MSK-200 TV Analyzer

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 [...]

Taste of NAB Road Show August 2010

Taste of NAB Road Show August 2010

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 [...]

The Taste of NAB Road Show on the East Coast!

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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 [...]

Taste of NAB Road Show July 2010

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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 [...]

Riverside and Los Angeles Stops on the Taste of NAB Roadshow 2010

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Running now through Sept. 10, the Taste of NAB Roadshow gives engineers an opportunity to have a hands-on, educational look at many of the key technologies introduced to the professional broadcast market at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas. For those who don’t know, Riverside, CA is the home of the mostly now de‐commissioned [...]

Taste of NAB Roadshow - June 2010

Taste of NAB Roadshow June 2010

Engineers, grab your Blackberries. Scroll down to an open summer date on your calendar and plug in The Taste of NAB Roadshow. It’s back! Co-sponsored by LBA Technology, the roadshow is returning for a 9th year, bringing to broadcast engineers and technicians where they live the latest electronic equipment and ideas showcased in Las Vegas [...]

First stops on the Taste of NAB Roadshow with Paulo Fernandes

LBA’s own Paulo Fernandes was there for the first few stops on the Taste of NAB Roadshow last week.  Paulo was on hand to introduce such breakthrough technology as the Kathrein-Schomandl ADAM3000 analog / digital TV Analyzer and MSK-200  DTV Signal Analyzer and health-protecting SafeOne Personal RF Monitor, as well as the new Taref3 high-precision [...]

Taste of NAB Roadshow - May 2010

Taste of NAB Roadshow May 2010

Engineers, grab your Blackberries. Scroll down to an open summer date on your calendar and plug in The Taste of NAB Roadshow. It’s back! Co-sponsored by LBA Technology, the roadshow is returning for a 9th year, bringing to broadcast engineers and technicians where they live the latest electronic equipment and ideas showcased in Las Vegas [...]

VERSATILE MSK-200 TV SIGNAL ANALYZER

MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer

Most busy TV engineers wouldn’t cobble together their own multiple-function TV Test Instruments from add-ons and options unless they found themselves in a technological vacuum. Thanks to Kathrein-Schomandl, no such void exists. The renowned German RF equipment manufacturer has filled it with a universal, easy-to-operate DTV signal analyzer called MSK-200. The versatile MSK-200 not only [...]

Kathrein/Schomandl Introduces an MSK-200 TV Analyzer with More HD Test Capability

MSK-200 TV Analyzer

April 6, 2010 (Greenville, NC) In an impressive display of responsive engineering, the Kathrein MSK-200 TV Analyzer has been seriously upgraded to meet the U.S. broadcast industry’s need for increasingly sophisticated analysis of high definition TV components. LBA Technology is the western hemisphere’s exclusive distributor of the MSK-200 and other products by The Kathrein Group. [...]

The MSK-200 Universal Digital TV Tester Gets Even Better!

New MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer with Many New Added Features!

New and improved MSK-200 Analyzers have arrived! (LBA Sales Executive Paulo Fernandes) Since LBA introduced the Kathrein MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer to the Americas last year, it has been enthusiastically welcomed by TV engineers. As an economical portable or fixed 6 ‘n 1 digital signal test solution it was without compare. And we have had [...]

MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer Steals the Show!

LBA Technology’s presentation of Kathrein / Schomandl RF Test Equipment generates overwhelming interest from South American visitors at the LABS’09 (Latin American Broadcast Show) going on now in Miami, FL. The MSK-200 TV signal analyzer can be seen in the center of the photo above. LBA’s latest Authorized RF Instrument Reseller, 305 Broadcast, was also [...]

FCC Releases Rural HDTV Procedure

Geographically isolated and local community analog TV watchers soon can see their favorite shows in high-definition television. The Federal Communications Commission has issued a public notice on how low power television stations can go digital, beginning in rural areas not served by full-power stations. Though most of the American viewing public switched to DTV in [...]

Straight Talk About the Digital TV Transition…

Much is made of reception problems marring the changeover from analog to digital TV in the US. Typically, these problems are laid on the backs of the TV engineering community. Before you jump too hard on the engineers, please consider that broadcasting is not a technology industry – it is an entertainment industry, pure and [...]

Digital TV Conversion – Who Loses Who Gains?

The FCC has released two free map books showing in detail the impact of the digital conversion on every US TV station. Most stations come out winners, with 89% gaining net coverage, and 11% losing. Stations losing coverage area can regain it using several methods, according to the FCC. Options include changing channels or antenna [...]