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July 2017
Next Meeting
Meeting Minutes.........................2Amateur Radio News..................3Joint SBE Meeting.......................4SBE RF101 Webinar...................6Sustaining Members...................6
In this Issue
Society of Broadcast Engineers
Chapter 24Newsletter
Madison, Wisconsin
>>> FAME continued on page 4
Tuesday, July 25
Wed., Aug. 23 Lightning Protection — A new look at an old problemThurs., Sept. 21 WMUU-LP Station Tour Downtown MadisonWeds., Oct. 11 Broadcasters Clinic — UW Engineering Autonomous Car Study
Coming Up
EIA/TIA RS-222 CODE G UPDATEEdge Consulting Engineers, Inc., located in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin will give
us a presentation on some of the changing codes and guidelines that will impact SBE members with respect to structural and construction standards
for towers. In addition, we would like to reflect on some practical measures to assist SBE members
to navigate these regulations and protect the long-term interest of their infrastructure. The following is an outline of topics we will address:
• Overview of consensus standards that impact the industry: NATE, TIA, ANSI
• Discussion of the replacement of TIA-1019
• Discussion of TIA-322: Loading, Analysis, and Design Criteria Related to the Installation, Alteration and Maintenance of Communication Structures (effective 1/1/2017)
• Discussion of ANSI A10.48: Criteria for Safety Practices with Construction, Demolition, Modification and Maintenance of Communication Structures
• Discussion of TIA-222-G: Structural Standard for Antennas Supporting Structures and Antennas
• Overview on how tower owners can manage, protect and preserve their infrastructure
Dutch Treat Dinner 5:30 PM
Culvers Frozen Custard2102 W. Beltline (north frontage road)
Madison, WI(no reservation - just gather together)
Meeting and Program at 7:00 PMWisconsin Public Broadcasting Center
3319 W. Beltline HwyMadison, WI
Visitors & Guests are welcome at all Chapter 24 events!
Leonard Charles Inducted Into WBA Hall of Fame
The 2017 Wisconsin Broadcasters Association (WBA) Hall of Fame festivities took place at the Blue Harbor Resort in Sheboygan on Thursday, June 15. The Hall of Fame Reception included the induction of Leonard Charles, Director of Engineering for Madison-based Morgan Murphy Media. During his remarkable career, Charles helped lead the television industry through rapid changes in technology and his contributions have made the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association a national leader in broadcast engineering. He serves on policy-setting national committees that
>>> Excerpts from WBA’s May/June Wisconsin Broadcaster
ChairRichard Wood
Resonant ResultsW: 608-839-3950
Vice-ChairClifford GrothNRG Media
(608) [email protected]
SecretaryMike Norton, CSTE, CBNE
ECB, Wisconsin Public BroadcastingW: [email protected]
TreasurerRoy Henn
Chief Engineer - WIFS(608) 535-9504
Past-ChairKevin Ruppert, CPBE, CBNT
Committee AppointeesProgram Committee
Steve Paugh, CPBE608-277-5139
[email protected] for the program committee!
Membership / Newsletter EditorPaul Stoffel, CPBE
Sustaining MembershipFred Sperry, CPBE
Certification & EducationJim Hermanson, CPBE, [email protected]
Frequency CoordinationTom Smith, CPBE
WebmasterLeonard Charles, CPBE
WISC-TVW: 608-271-4321
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Chapter Contacts Meeting Minutesfrom the June 2017 Business Meeting
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On Thursday, June 22, 2017 Chapter 24 of the Society of Broadcast held their monthly meeting at WISC-TV in Madison. There were 14 members present, 8 who held SBE certification, and 2 guests. Chapter Chair Rich Wood called the meeting to order at 7:01pm, and everyone quickly introduced themselves. There were no additions or modifications to the May meeting minutes so they were approved as published in the June Newsletter. Treasurer Roy Henn indicated there were minor transactions since last month and that the balance remains good. He also explained that the Chapter received a rebate check from SBE National for meetings held last year. After some discussion a motion was made to return the check to the national office and have the funds applied to the Ennes Educational Foundation Trust. The motion passed on a unanimous vote. In a newsletter update, Paul Stoffel is looking to transfer responsibility to a new editor. Additionally, the Chapter is in search of a new membership coordinator. If you are interested in either of these positions please contact one of the officers. Program committee chair Steve Paugh reviewed topics for upcoming meetings. July will cover the EIA/TIA RS-222 Code G changes, which will be timely with expected tower and antenna changes required by the spectrum auction and channel repack. August brings a presentation on lightning protection, and the September program will be a tour of the WMUU-LP studio in downtown Madison. Jim Hermanson provided the Certification and Education report, and noted two recertification applications were received. He also thanked WIFS TV57 for the use of their conference room for recent exams. The next local certification opportunity is November 3 – 13 (application deadline is September 25). Leonard Charles forwarded information with the National report, highlighted by the upcoming National election to be held July 24 – August 23. Electronic ballots will be sent via email in July to members. There are 9 candidates vying for 6 seats. Also, anyone who has not renewed their SBE membership, the grace period ends June 30. There were no old or new business items brought up for discussion. In professional announcements, Leonard Charles has been inducted into the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, becoming the third engineer to receive the honor. For general announcements a question was raised about finding broadcast-related internships for interested individuals; it was suggested to contact the WBA to see if they were aware of any possible opportunities. The meeting was adjourned at 7:14pm, and was then followed by a presentation by Steve Paugh. His topic “The Purpose of Audio & Why Audiophiles Got It Wrong” took a technical (and at times comical) view of home audio enthusiasts and over-the-top stereo systems.
Submitted by Mike Norton, Secretary
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compiled by Tom Weeden, WJ9H
Amateur Radio News
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The Broadcasters Clinic
Pre planning for the 2017 Broadcasters Clinic is in full swing. The program committee has set the agenda and it’s another good one. Please mark your calendar for October 10th thru the 12th and join us at the Madison Marriott West where we’ll have your seat waiting. The Early Bird agenda is included in this newsletter. Take a look. You simply cannot find a broadcast engineering conference more aligned with the technology of our industry outside of Vegas in April. Don’t miss it. We look forward to seeing you there. Early Bird on line registration is open now at http://www.wi-broadcasters.org/events/broadcasters-clinic/.
>>> by Leonard Charles, Broadcasters Clinic Committee Chair
● Amateur Radio came to the rescue of the INSPIRE-2 CubeSat, built by the University of Sydney in collaboration with the Australian National University, and the University of New South Wales. According to Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA), the CubeSat is designed to “explore the lower thermosphere, for re-entry research and in-orbit demonstration of technologies and miniaturized sensors” and is part of the QB-50 constellation of research CubeSats. Its operational frequency was coordinated by IARU to be in the satellite segment of the 70-centimeter Amateur Radio band. After its deployment from the International Space Station (ISS) in late May, INSPIRE-2 showed no signs of life. The engineering group on the ground tested various scenarios on the INSPIRE-2 engineering model, concluding that the spacecraft’s battery had depleted due to the CubeSat’s extended stay on board the ISS prior to orbit. The ground controllers theorized that the satellite was trapped in an endless loop, but still listening while trying to deploy its antenna, making reception of signals from Earth difficult. The ground team devised a set of commands that, if received, would instruct the satellite to wait until its battery was charged before attempting to deploy its antenna. UNSW and ANU ground stations transmitted the recovery command without success, however, eventually deciding that more power was needed to overcome the lack of receiver sensitivity caused by the still-stowed antenna. PI9CAM at the CAMRAS Foundation Dwingeloo Astronomic Observatory in Leiden, the Netherlands, responded to a call to the "moonbounce" community and offered to transmit a high power signal using a 25-meter dish that’s normally used for radio astronomy but also for
Amateur Radio Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) transmissions. Success of the approach was confirmed on June 11, and Dimitrios Tsifakis, VK1SV, who is part of the ANU team, subsequently was able to send commands to the satellite from the ANU Earth station for the first time. The satellite had come back to life! WIA called it, “a wonderful example of successful collaboration between radio amateurs and the academic community.” The QB50 program involves a coordinated launch of 50 CubeSats from the ISS to undertake three integrated space research studies, supplemented by additional research investigations by individual CubeSat teams; some QB50 participating spacecraft carry Amateur Radio payloads. — Thanks to WIA News ● Hundreds of Amateur Radio stations have reported receiving the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR) signal being transmitted by CG3EXP on 20, 30, and 40 meters from the Canada C3 expedition to track the vessel Polar Prince as it transits Canada from east to west via the Northwest Passage in 150 days to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary. This
marks the first time that WSPR has been used to track a vessel. The expedition, which started on June 1, will continue until October 28, ending in Victoria, British Columbia. It's
currently on the third of 15 planned legs of its journey, en route from Baie-Comeau, Quebec, to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The 220-foot-long Polar Prince, a former Canadian Coast Guard vessel, is a research icebreaker. CG3EXP has been transmitting on 20, 30, and 40 meters at 20-minute intervals since leaving Toronto on June 1. The
CG3EXP WSPR HF end-fed antenna, on the ship's port side, slopes up to the mid mast at 62° — some 46 feet of insulated wire, approximately 0.5 wavelength on 30 meters. A live tracking link <http://www.qrp-labs.com/c3.html>, generated by QRP Labs, the supplier of the transmitting hardware, is being hosted by Jeff Milne, VE3EFF. (Excerpts from the American Radio Relay League's <arrl.org> web site)
WSPR implements a protocol designed for probing potential propagation paths with low-power transmissions. Normal transmissions carry a station’s callsign, Maidenhead grid locator, and transmitter power in dBm. The program can decode signals with S/N as low as -28 dB in a 2500 Hz bandwidth. <https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wspr.html>
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Joint SBE Meeting Planned in Milwaukee Milwaukee SBE Chapter 28, in a joint meeting with Madison Chapter 24 and American Tower Corporation (ATC), will be hosting a special FREE FCC Repack BBQ event on Tuesday, July 18, for FM and TV station engineering personnel. ATC is sponsoring the luncheon meeting at its 4350 N. Humboldt Blvd., Milwaukee location. Ample free parking is available. Please RSVP to Ron Pellegrini no later than July 7. < [email protected] >
The agenda:
11:30AM-11:45AM Meeting start time & Introductions11:45AM-12:30PM Lunch (BBQ)12:15PM-12:30PM SBE Business Meeting12:30PM-1:15PM ATC Presentation focused on our plans around the re-pack 1:15PM- 2:00PM Tour of ATC site
Please contact Patrick if you are interested in attending or organizing a car pool:
Patrick K. CaponeDirector, Strategic Accounts BroadcastAmerican Tower Corporation781-926-4971 (office)617-413-7957 (mobile)[email protected]
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Current editing software isAdobe InDesign CC.Contact Rich Wood
or Paul Stoffel.
will continue to shape the industry for years to come. Charles began his career in 1974, working for a variety of Midwestern radio stations before joining Morgan Murphy Media in 1988. Today he serves as director of engineering of the company’s Midwest Division, overseeing technical operations in television, radio and multimedia throughout the upper Midwest. Leonard serves on the Technology Committee and the Next Generation Broadcast Platform Committee at the National Association of Broadcasters. He leads the award-winning WBA Broadcasters Clinic and is a member of the Wisconsin Emergency Communications Committee. Among his many honors, he has twice been named Engineer of the Year by the national Society of Broadcast Engineers and was the 2013 recipient of the NAB Achievement in Engineering Award. At the induction ceremony the “Engineers” got together and did a surprise ringing of cow bells when Charles was introduced.
Watch a profile video of Charles at: http://www.wisconsinbroadcastingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/leonard-charles/ Inductees are chosen each year from nominations by WBA members, family members and friends. Broadcasters who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame include managers, personalities, engineers, reporters, educators and those broadcasting pioneers who were all of the above. The Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame was created in 1989 to honor broadcasters that have devoted a minimum of 15 years to the broadcasting industry including a minimum of 10 years as a Wisconsin broadcaster. The award recognizes an individual’s history of exemplary leadership in community and statewide service as a broadcast professional.
(Photos from Linda Baun, WBA)
>>> FAME continued from page 1 Terry Baun Announces His Retirement Terrence M. “Terry” Baun (CPBE, AMD, CBNT) has announced his retirement. Baun most recently worked for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board (ECB) as director of engineering and operations, where he oversaw the engineering and operations of the delivery system for Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television throughout the state. Baun began his broadcasting career in 1967 at Milwaukee classical music station WFMR(FM), and joined the Society of Broadcast Engineers’s Chapter 28 nine years later. After ten years at WFMR, he moved intocorporate engineering and also formed consulting firm Criterion Broadcast Services. He has also worked for Sudbrink Broadcasting, Multimedia Broadcasting and Cumulus Broadcasting. Over the course of his career, Baun’s accomplishments and contributions have been widely recognized by the engineering community. He is a recipient of the SBE Lifetime Achievement Award, was named the SBE’s Broadcast Engineer of the Year in 1991, an SBE fellow and 2003 SBE Educator of the Year. In 2004, Baun was inducted into the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association (WBA) Foundation Hall of Fame. Read the entire story at: http://www.wi-broadcasters.org/wp-content/uploads/wisconsin-broadcaster_may-june-2017-standard.pdf on page 15.
(Reprinted with permission from WBA. Excerpts from a radiomagonline.com story by Emily M. Reigart)
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The Open 2017 Exam Schedule
Exam Dates Location Application Deadline(to SBE National Office)
November 3-13, 2017 Local Chapters (Madison Area) September 25, 2017
Life certification is available to those who are retired or may also be granted to professional broadcast engineers and senior broadcast engineers who have maintained certification continuously for 20 years and are current members of the SBE upon application.
For questions about applying for an exam, please contact Jim Hermanson at [email protected] or Megan Clappe at [email protected]. Also, see the SBE National Web site at www.sbe.org.
When you are ready to take an SBE exam, please fill out the appropriate application and send it into the SBE National office (see address below). You will be notified once your application has been approved. Approximately 3 weeks before the exam time, your local certification chairman will receive a list of applicants in his/her area. He/she will then contact those applicants to schedule a date, time and place for the exams. The exams will be mailed back to the National office for grading. The pass/fail grades will then be mailed directly to the applicants.
You may mail, email or fax your applications to:
Megan E. ClappeCertification Director 9102 N. Meridian St. Suite 150Indianapolis, IN 46260317-846-9120 [email protected]
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CHAPTER 24SUSTAINING MEMBERS
SBE RF101 Module 6: July 20, 1:00pm CT The AM, FM, TV RF Propagation module contines the RF101 Series. This Introductory propagation webinar builds on the previous modules with further discussion of the ways RF is propagated in the atmosphere. Discussion will include free space path loss; terrestrial propagation; predicted coverage and the aspects that can affect reception (such as terrain and interference), and a more in-depth look into AM, FM & TV signals. The remaining two modules will be presented over the coming months. The previous modules are available for purchase at: < http://www.sbe.org/sections/WebinarsbySBE.php#OnDemand >.
RF101: Broadcast Terrestrial Transmission Systems Course Modules:
1. Introduction to Radio Frequency (RF) (January 26, 2017)2. Transmission Lines (March 2, 2017)3. Towers, Antennas, and Transmission Systems (April 13)4. Antenna Gain - Feed-line Loss (May 18)5. Modulation Fundamentals (June 15)6. AM, FM, TV RF Propagation (July 20)7. RF Transmitter Measurements (August 24)8. FCC Regulations (September 21)
Upon completion of the entire course, attendees will be able to: 1) Understand the basic characteristics of RF and electromagnetic radiation; 2) Describe different types of transmission lines, antennas, and their characteristics; 3) Understand the fundamentals of RF propagation; 4) Understand modulation and different modern modulation methods; 5) Describe various components used in RF communications systems; 6) Explain the basic characteristics of RF transceiver systems; 7) Define common terms used to characterize RF systems; 8) Understand how to perform a range of basic RF measurements; 9) FCC regulations pertinent to maintaining a broadcast facility. The completion of this webinar from Webinars by SBE qualifies for 1 credit, identified under Category I of the Recertification Schedule for SBE Certifications. Dennis Baldridge, CPBE, 8-VSB, AMD, DRB, CBNT, a veteran of the broadcast engineering field for more than 30 years. Baldridge is a Senior member of the SBE, holds an FCC Lifetime General License (formerly a First Class FCC License) and Amateur Radio Extra Class License (K0DB). He also holds a M.A.E. and teaches science courses for Upper Iowa University. As owner of Baldridge Communications, LLC, he works as a contract engineer and has also authored articles for Radio Guide. Baldridge serves as an inspector for the FCC Alternate Inspection Program of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. Registration for each module will be done separately. Register here for Module 6.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 7:45 AM: Registration & Continental Breakfast Location: Superior Room 8:50 AM: Opening Remarks Location: Superior Room 9:00 AM: Session Location: Superior Room AM Broadcast Facilities By Ben Dawson, Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers, LLC Synopsis: This session will discuss possibilities for cost-effective changes in the AM plant, the cost effectiveness of diplexing or tri-plexing, how to plan for facilities changes like frequency swaps or turning off a potential restricting station, what AM revitalization technical changes might arise, and how to configure your antenna to allow a moment method proof and when you should avoid one even if legally permissible. 9:45 AM: Session Location: Superior Room Virtual Radio – Real Applications By Bill Bennett, Lawo, Inc. Synopsis: IT’s influence on Radio Broadcasters is strong, and awareness of hardware virtualization and the “glass cockpit” is growing fast. In this presentation we’ll look at what you can do today, and where things may go in the future, exploring the ways broadcasters can reap operational and monetary gains from IT’s R&D investment. 10:30 AM: Break 10:45 AM: Session Location: Superior Room Making Metadata Matter By Don Backus, Broadcast Electronics Synopsis: Metadata is defined as ‘data about data’, but smart broadcasters know it’s so much more than just data…it’s information that listeners want and use, it’s material that engages audiences, enhances the radio experience and benefits advertisers and, it’s ultimately a way of turning data into dollars. We’ll discuss the technical side of delivering and monitoring metadata and how you can help develop a winning strategy for your stations to make metadata a revenue center that matters. 11:30 AM: Session Location: Superior Room The Automotive Dashboard Initiative By David Layer, Senior Director, Advanced Engineering, NAB Synopsis: The automobile dashboard has historically been a stronghold for the AM/FM radio receiver but 21st century technology is providing consumers with more and more dashboard options. A big part of this change is driven by the ever-greater availability of mobile broadband services and the ubiquitous smartphone. Despite this, radio listening remains the dominant form of audio entertainment. In this presentation, Mr. Layer will offer a survey of the most popular digital dashboard technologies and discuss how radio broadcasters can use these to best advantage. He will also consider the linkage between the growth of so-called “hybrid radio” services in smartphones (which use both wireless broadband and over-the-air signals) and how this can translate into increased listenership in vehicles.
12:15 PM: Lunch Location: ??? 1:15 PM: Session Location: Superior Room Virtual Talkshow and Sports Production By Kirk Harnack & Joe Talbot, The Telos Alliance Synopsis: Convenient connections create compelling content. Telecom technologies like SIP/VoIP are becoming more ubiquitous and less mysterious. Along with fast Internet and VPNs, they not only enable flexible workflows, they enable alternatives to single-studio or expensive remote solutions. This presentation demonstrates some clever implementations in-use now, as well as previews strategies and techniques for achieving efficient and effective talkshow and other radio production workflows. 2:00 PM: Session Location: Superior Room HD Radio: How to Improve Listener Experience with Proper Time/Level Alignment? By Mike Pappas, Orban Synopsis: Since the first generation of HD Radio systems were installed back in 2004 maintaining diversity delay time alignment between the analog FM and the HD radio digital signal has been a challenge that continues to this day. System drift is still an issue and directly impacts the user experience. So what are the best practices to monitor and correct this issue? How best to implement them? What to look out for? 2:45 PM: Break 3:00 PM: Session Location: Superior Room HD Single Frequency Networking By Jeff Welton, Nautel Synopsis: This presentation won Best Engineering Paper for the NAB show. It discusses a practical case study using HD single frequency networking to seamlessly set up on channel coverage boosters with no interference zone. The presentation goes into both the theory involved in developing a solution and the practical implementation of the solution. 3:45 PM: Session Location: Superior Room Transport Robust and Secure FM Composite Multiplex Signals in an IP STL By Dave Agnew- GatesAir Mason, Ohio Synopsis: The emergence of high bandwidth IP network connections is an enabler for the transport of the FM composite multiplex (MPX) signal in a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL). This session will present use cases to illustrate differences between all analog, all digital, and dual domain FM MPX STLs and the tradeoffs they present with respect to compatibility and network bandwidth, scalability, and delay. 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Exhibits Open - Exhibitors Reception Location: Wisconsin/Michigan Rooms 7:00 PM: Nuts & Bolts Session Location: Superior Room SNMP Plugfest By Tony Peterle, Worldcast Systems, Inc. A wireless network will be setup in this session over which attendees can connect with their own personal laptops. Attendees will be provided a USB key containing the installer for the iReasoning MIB browser (a popular tool for SNMP exploration). Using many SNMP devices in the room attendees will learn how to use the MIB browser to connect to the devices, poll for information and exercise control with SET commands.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 7:00 AM: Registration & Continental Breakfast Location: Lobby 8:30 AM: Session Location: Superior Room Why 0.01% Distortion Sometimes Matters, and 30% Sometimes Doesn't By Steve Dove, Wheatstone Synopsis: This session is a lighthearted romp through why some things sound the way they do, deflating some conventional wisdoms, and highlighting some surprising insights. 9:15 AM: Session Location: Superior Room WebRTC for Broadcasters By Chris Crump, Comrex Synopsis: WebRTC is technology that is already dramatically changing the way we communicate with online retailers and each other. Web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and, in the near future, Microsoft Edge and Safari, all have audio and video codecs built in. We will discuss the open source Opus algorithms, provide an overview of WebRTC and discuss ways to utilizing this transforming technology in a broadcast environment. 10:00 AM: Exclusive Exhibit Time Location: Wisconsin/Michigan Rooms 11:00 AM: Lunch on Exhibit Floor Location: Wisconsin/Michigan Rooms 1:30 PM: Session Location: Superior Room The Spectrum Auction Repack By Patrick McFadden, Associate General Counsel, NAB Synopsis: The Auction is over but the Repack is just beginning. The NAB has been studying the process and polling members to identify bumps in the road before they become potholes. This session will reveal the data, reaction, and future efforts surrounding the Closing and Change Reassignment Public Notice. The majority of TV stations and many FM stations will be impacted in different ways. 2:15 PM: Session Location: Superior Room The FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Keynote: The FCC Agenda under Chairman Pai 3:00 PM: Break 3:15 PM: Session Location: Superior Room Real World Results For A Signal Measurement Drone By John Kean and Gary Cavell, Cavell Mertz & Associates, Inc. Synopsis: Development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or "drones") has proceeded quickly for video production in the broadcast industry. Applications for engineering study are beginning to catch up. Cavell Mertz & Associates developed the nation's first signal measurement drone for broadcast antenna systems and have been gathering substantial field experience with real-world antennas. This presentation will provide the results of studies for digital television stations and FM radio stations in both analog and digital mode, illustrated by charts and photographs.
4:00 PM: Session Location: Superior Room 12 GHz Cable By Steve Lampen, Belden Synopsis: When will copper fail us? When 4K and other high data rate services first appeared it seemed only fiber could handle the bandwidth. Now cable has been developed to handle the speed. This presents some installation and connection challenges. This session will cover cables and interconnection in the 12Ghz world and what is likely to be the technology for the next generation. 5:30 PM: Dinner Location: ???? 6:00 PM: SBE All Chapter Meeting and Program, Location: Superior Room Automated Vehicle Testing By Peter Rafferty, Wisconsin AV Proving Grounds, UW-Madison Synopsis: Things at the Proving Grounds with automated vehicles (AVs) have been taking off since January. This session will introduce Automated Vehicles generally, briefly explain what they are and aren’t, how they work (or don’t work, yet), address common questions and allay common misconceptions. Ideally it will leave the audience with a better understanding of where we are and where we’re headed. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 7:45 AM: Registration & Continental Breakfast Location: Superior Room 8:30 AM: Session Location: Superior Room The IP Baseband Migration By Utah Scientific Synopsis: As the IP (internet protocol) revolution sweeps through the broadcast industry, there’s little doubt that most video operations will be driven by IP technologies in the not-so-distant future. The good news is that the industry is making great strides in developing and adopting open IP standards and methodologies, the most important being SMPTE 2022-6 and TR-03/04, (SMPTE 2110 draft). This session will cover the history of IP technology and standards, the SMPTE 2022 family of standards, potential strategies for your conversion to IP, and IP islands and their role in your transition. 9:15 AM: Session Location: Superior Room SCTE-104/35 and Beyond: A Look at Ad Insertion in an OTT World By By Ciro A. Noronha, PhD, Colbalt Digital Synopsis: Ad Insertion is a very important part of many video delivery systems because it generates revenue! With Over-The-Top (OTT) video delivery on the internet, the holy grail of advertisement is finally achievable. It is technically possible to send individual, personalized ads to each viewer. Such systems are based, in part, on the traditional ad insertion workflows that use the SCTE-104 and SCTE-35 standards as their starting point. This session will show how a traditional ad-insertion workflow at the programmer side can be used as a basis for an OTT system.
10:00 AM: Break
10:15 AM: Session Location: Superior Room Broadband Antenna and Filter Technology for Repack and ATSC 3.0 By Christine Zuba, Dielectric Synopsis: To date, broadband antennas have been largely designed with large panels and high windload. Newer technologies such as waveguide slot-cavity antennas have been introduced within the last 12-18 months. Additional New Broadband Slot Antenna techniques are becoming available. The television channel repack not only means the need for broadband antenna applications, but additional filter considerations for closely spaced channels, and a future ATSC 3.0 environment. This paper will examine the latest in antenna and filter design techniques and specifications in a more crowded television band, anticipating ATSC 3.0 . 11:00 AM: Session Location: Superior Room Adopting VoIP/SIP to Improve Live Coverage Workflows While Slashing Expenses By Kirk Harnack, Joe Talbot, Martin Dyster- The Telos Alliance Synopsis: Live coverage television is rife with difficulties and pitfalls, and every TV facility is looking to cut expenses. More TV stations are discovering VoIP/SIP service along with the modern studio equipment that makes it effective. From instant IFB connections to great-sounding severe weather spotter reports, VoIP/SIP technology and equipment is improving audio quality both behind the scenes and on-air. This presentation demonstrates how TV stations are improving in-the-field reporting while saving hundreds to thousands on their telecom costs. 12:00 PM: Lunch Location: ????? 1:00 PM: Session Location: Superior Room ATSC 3.0 – Characteristics and Transmission Requirements By Martyn Horspool, GatesAir Synopsis: ATSC 3.0 promises to bring with it many advanced features and capabilities which will enhance the future of over-the-air television. The differences between OFDM-based modulation and the current ATSC 8-VSB modulation are apparent. Some of these differences will impact the ability of existing transmission equipment to successfully and reliably perform their intended tasks. This presentation will dig into some of the key areas that need to be investigated and provide some insight as to how to be prepared for the transition to ATSC 3.0 transmission. 1:45 PM: Session Location: Superior Room ATSC 3.0, The Big Picture Fred Baumgartner, Next Gen TV Implementation, One Media/Sinclair Broadcast Synopsis: This session will engage the audience in challenging the long held assumptions of “what is Broadcasting?” and provide new insight into the unique opportunities to establish relevance in today’s rapidly converging digital IP world with “BaaS (Broadcast as a service), positioning and developing Broadcasting’s central role in the emerging 5G world. 2:30 PM: Session Location: Superior Room ATSC 3.0 Panel Jerry Whitaker, ATSC Christine Zuba, Dielectric Martyn Horspool, GatesAir Jay Adrick, Broadcast Consultant / Chairs ATSC Advanced Emergency Alerting Implementation Team Fred Baumgartner, Next Gen TV Implementation, One Media-Sinclair Broadcast Synopsis: With the ATSC 3.0 standards process almost complete, this panel of experts will delve into what it will take to bring the technology to your market, and your station. This session will be highly interactive with the audience.