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 [...]

What’s All This FemtoCell Stuff, Anyhow?

Figure 1: Logical Architecture of a 3G FemtoCell and its connectivity to the network

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. [...]

US Navy Relies on Schomandl Frequency Synthesizers

LBA staffers Betty Perez and Dick Hanson prepare to dispatch a shipment of Schomandl frequency synthesizers to the US Navy.

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, [...]

Wireless industry veteran Christopher K. Horne becomes chief technical officer at LBA Group Inc.

Chris Horne

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. [...]

Taste of NAB Roadshow

May 31, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

LBA at NAB 2010 Booth Pics

LBA at the NAB 2010 panned out view

The MSK-200 Universal TV Signal Analyzer is drawing tremendous crowds at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas, filling the LBA booth (SU3327) to capacity. Interest has been overwhelming! There has also been interest in mobile digital TV, Digital TV test equipment, and Time Frequency Standard systems which are economical alternatives to [...]

LBA Brings Latest Schomandl – Kathrein TV and RF test equipment to the NAB convention floor

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At NAB 2010, LBA’s channel partners and integrators are featuring the latest generation of Schomandl-Kathrein TV and RF test equipment. Where? In Booth  SU3327, South Hall, second level. Videos that showcase our fine products will be showing continuously on large 42-inch screens. In addition to the internationally renowned 10-instruments-in-1 MSK-200 universal TV signal analyzer and [...]

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. [...]

Keeping Spooky Black Hat RF In The Box!

Topology of the ECU faraday cage lab

Have you ever wondered how you could make a safe and secure wireless test setup for wireless access point configuration, wireless network interface card configuration, wireless network sniffing, WEP cracking, rogue access point detection, wireless-based DoS attacks, or other black hat exercises? Under the direction of Dr. Lee Toderick, the School of Information and Technology [...]

LBA Group Partners with Balboa Capital to Provide Customer Leasing Solutions

LBA has partnered with Balboa Capital Corp. to provide lease financing plans for LBA Technology RF and test equipment resellers and customers. Recognizing the needs of our customers for financing flexibility, LBA has made available leasing services from one of the preeminent business oriented finance groups in the US.  Balboa Capital is a national leader [...]

LBA’s October Exhibit Schedule for Schomandl/Kathrein Test Instruments

LBA Technology is offering the top-of-the-line Kathrein MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer for hands-on demonstrations at the following October events: October 6-7 in Verona, NY at the SBE22 Broadcast Technology Expo presented by LBA Reseller Broadcasters General Store in booth# A18 October 13-15 in Madison, WI at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association “Broadcasters Clinic“, presented by LBA [...]

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 [...]

LBA Exhibits at the Latin American Broadcast Show

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Please join LBA Technology in Miami, Florida for this year’s LABS’09 event at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, July 9th and 10th. LBA will display, in booth# 307, not only our time-tested AM Antenna System products and solutions, but also a full line of RF Test & Measuring instruments from world renowned Kathrein & Schomandl. Demonstrations [...]

LBA Brings Schomandl – Kathrein Test Applications to NAB Show Floor

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This year at NAB2009, LBA’s channel partners and integrators featured working Schomandl – Kathrein Test Equipment in their booths. The hit of the show were the MSK-200 TV signal analyzer and ADAM-3000 rack mount analog / digital TV analyzer. We bring you some photos of innovative uses of these analyzers. ADAM-3000 in Houston CH2 Storm [...]

FIT-70 Antenna Tester a Winner!

FIT-70 Antenna Tester a Winner!

John George here – As an old time broadcaster, I’ve run into a bunch of antenna testers and power meters over the years! Now, the LBA Technology Test Equipment Group has a whole new bag of goodies for me. Case in point is the FIT-70 RF wattmeter. The FIT-70 tester, is manufactured by Schomandl, a [...]

MSK-200 DTV Monitor Ideal for Multiple Transmitter Networks

The MSK-200 Digital Transport Stream antenna monitor is just the ticket for adjusting and maintaining multiple transmitter DTV systems as recently authorized by the FCC. A host of timing, synchronization, and quality aspects can be assessed by the portable, but very sophisticated Kathrein DTV monitor. Read more about the MSK-200 in our blog “Hear no [...]

LBA Partners with Kathrein – Schomandl for Western Hemisphere Test Equipment Distribution

Exciting things are happening for LBA Technology test equipment solutions customers! German RF equipment manufacturer Kathrein and subsidiary Schomandl will exclusively distribute its radio frequency test equipment, including devices for digital TV, radio, wireless, CATV, satellite and laboratory use, through the RF systems expertise of LBA Technology, throughout the western hemisphere. Kathrein test equipment joins [...]

LBA Technology Appointed Exclusive Western Hemisphere Distributor for Schomandl and Kathrein RF Test Equipment

Greenville, NC October 21, 2008 German RF equipment manufacturer Kathrein and subsidiary Schomandl will exclusively distribute its radio frequency test equipment, including devices for digital TV, radio, wireless, CATV, satellite and laboratory use, through RF systems experts LBA Technology, a unit of the LBA Group, Inc., throughout the western hemisphere. The Kathrein Group and instrumentation subsidiary [...]

LBA Technology Forms Test Equipment Group

Greenville, NC September 17, 2008 LBA Technology has expanded to add a new Test Equipment Group. The new group will take responsibility for existing test products manufactured or sold by LBA. It is also in the process of activating major new third party test equipment distribution agreements under the Group. According to Jerry Brown, President of [...]

SafeOne personal RF monitor alarms the user, not the company's controller

Greenville, NC July 17 2008 LBA Technology, Inc. has just brought a breakthrough budget-pleasing personal RF monitor to market at approximately half the price of the competition, according to Dick Hansson, Director of Marketing. SafeOne™ is an effective and economical means to monitor the strength of electromagnetic (RF) fields from mobile phone towers, radio and television [...]

Exciting new changes to the TE1000 Vector Impedance Analyzer

Greenville , NC 30 December 2005 – TOMCO Technologies, leading producer of electronic impedance test equipment, has introduced a new version of its respected TE1000 Vector Impedance Analyzer. The new instrument is available in North and South America exclusively through LBA Technology, Inc. Enhanced features now standard in the TE-1000 include: • A ruggedized probe [...]

LBA Group to Distribute TOMCO Impedance Analyzer in North, South America

GREENVILLE, NC – April 12, 2005 – LBA Group, Inc. (LBA) today announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement for North and South America between its subsidiary LBA Technology, Inc. and Tomco Technologies (Tomco) of Norwood, Australia. The agreement includes Tomco’s TE1000 line of RF Vector Impedance Analyzers as well as access to its lines [...]