Thank you to everyone who came out to the meeting with BE! We had a GREAT turnout, which really impressed Criss Onan from BE. Let’s keep it up! Here is the info for our April meeting. _Lunch Meeting __Thursday April 26th__NewTek Tricasters_Video is becoming a bigger part of radio and internet. Not all of us have the huge budgets or training to produce video in a traditional way, that is where NewTek comes in. Their line of Tricaster products can be the answer. Come hear a discussion on all their capabilities ...Continue Reading

Looking forward to seeing everyone there! Andrea Cummis Secretary SBE15 On Mar 14, 2012 4:42 PM, "Jeff Smith" <jeffsmith@PROTECTED> wrote: Last day to RSVP for tomorrow’s meeting!______ ____ __ Thursday March 15th____"The Ghosts of Radio Automation:  Past, Present and Future." ____ With Chris Onan of BE____Criss Onan is Senior Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Broadcast Electronics products including the AudioVAULT system.  Criss joined Broadcast Electronics in 1993. ...Continue Reading

Last day to RSVP for tomorrow’s meeting!  Thursday March 15th"The Ghosts of Radio Automation:  Past, Present and Future." With Chris Onan of BECriss Onan is Senior Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Broadcast Electronics products including the AudioVAULT system.  Criss joined Broadcast Electronics in 1993.  Previously he was sales manager for broadcast equipment distributor Northeast Broadcast Labs.  Before that he held a variety of positions at radio stations ...Continue Reading

Thursday March 15th"The Ghosts of Radio Automation:  Past, Present and Future." With Chris Onan of BECriss Onan is Senior Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Broadcast Electronics products including the AudioVAULT system.  Criss joined Broadcast Electronics in 1993.  Previously he was sales manager for broadcast equipment distributor Northeast Broadcast Labs.  Before that he held a variety of positions at radio stations in New York.6:00 Light Dinner, sponsored by BE7:00 ...Continue Reading

Not nearly as romantic as Andy’s story, but here is a positive one.   Many many moons ago (even a few more moons before I was chief at WDHA), I was chief at WFME (owned by Family Radio, you know, Mr. Camping, the guy that said the world was going to end last May). The station was located in West Orange, New Jersey, so we had a local 201 area code number, but since we had many listeners in New York, we also had a foreign exchange number in the 212 area code so our New York listeners could call the station and not ...Continue Reading

What, no positive telco stories?   OK, I will tell one. A very junior broadcast engineer working in the Buffalo market was quite enthralled with a young lady from NYC.  Unfortunately, that young lady had gone home for summer break.   Engineer figured he would overnight airplane tickets to the young lady, so she could come visit one weekend.   However, said engineer didn't really think things through before he sent the envelope.  You see, he was also moving at the same time, and ...Continue Reading

Sometimes I don't think a lot of the Verizon people understand the concept of stereo. At a previous station, whenever we had a stereo pair installed, before accepting the circuit as working, I would always ask the installer to bridge his tone generator across both channels and do a frequency sweep, so that I could look at the phase of the stereo pair.  The Verizon tech would invariably tell me that they don't like to bridge the tone generator across two circuts, so I should check the phase once circuit at a ...Continue Reading

Jeff, I want to get certified, but I have a few questions. 1) What certs would help me obtain a radio engineering job? I work as a pd and jock part time, but want to move to engineering since that was what I enjoyed doing when I was engineer/IT at my college station. 2) When are the next round of exams? Thank you for your time. Tom Lawler On Mar 7, 2012 9:30 AM, "Jeff Smith" <jeffsmith@PROTECTED> wrote: 2 things….______ __Our chapter …well LACKS when it comes to certified members. We can do bette ...Continue Reading

With this thread I am reminded of the following http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKpDZigvoVo *David K. Bialik*  *From:* Parnau, Alan W [mailto:awparnau@PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:17 AM*To:* sbe15*Subject:* [sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air?? I’ve been reading this thread with much amusement, and must tell a story of my own. Many moons ago when I was Chief at WDHA, the manager decided he wanted “music on hold”, so that people could listen to the station while waiting. So, I order ...Continue Reading

Figured I would change the topic on the list J More info here…. http://blog.sbe.org/2012/03/08/free-springtime-maintenance-webinar/ Jeff   ...Continue Reading