SBE CHAPTER 40 NEWSLETTER
APRIL 2003
San Francisco
Roy Trumbull - Editor roy547@msn.com
Bill Dempster - Artist
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Babes/SBE Luncheon on Wednesday April 30th
This month we'll do an NAB wrap-up plus Larry Bloomfield will join
us with his roadshow "A Taste of NAB" that will feature products
that were on display at this year's show.
As usual, our luncheon will be at Sinbad's
just south of the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero near the
foot of Mission St. We meet at 11:30 and are seated at 12:30. To
make reservations call Paul Black at 925-827-9511 and leave a message
on his machine.
The End of Ink and Paper
In checking with Tim Pozar recently, I found that we have 90 people
signed up for the electronic edition of this newsletter that goes
directly to your home email box (along with various ads to extend
parts of the anatomy or to trade your fiscal woes to a loan shark
who collects more vigorously than your existing creditors). If you
haven't signed up for the email newsletter, please do so. The June
newsletter will be the last printed newsletter. - RT
Rusty Draper Dies
Rusty Draper, a singer who had a string of hits in the 1950s, died
at the age of 80 in Bellevue, Washington. He also acted in musicals
and TV westerns. He sometimes subbed for Ronald Reagan on a radio
station in Des Moines, IA.. In San Francisco he did his turn as a
TV cartoon show host before his singing career took off.
TEMPORARY STAY GRANTED IN BROADCAST AUXILIARY MATTER
"In this Order, we grant a Request for Temporary Stay (Request)
filed by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) to delay the
effective date of prior coordination procedures adopted by the
Report and Order in the above-captioned proceeding for most fixed
point-to-point Aural and TV Broadcast Auxiliary Service (BAS)
stations. SBE requests the stay to allow BAS licensees time to
provide and to correct BAS receive site information in our licensing
database, the Universal Licensing System (ULS), to ensure that the
new procedures effectively avert interference to existing systems.
We grant the requested relief for six months, delaying the effective
date to October 16, 2003...." - FCC
SIGN UP FOR NO CALL
"Californians can now pre-register here for the nationwide Do Not
Call list that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to
launch this summer. California is joining in the national Do Not
Call registry which is FREE to consumers. If you sign up today, you
can stop unwanted telemarketing calls beginning in October under
the nationwide program.... Business telephone numbers are excluded...."
For further information and to list your home and cell phone numbers
via a secure web site, see:
http://nocall.doj.state.ca.us/
The preceding two stories were courtesy of the CGC Communicator.
American Graffiti
Someone inquired as to where the Wolfman Jack segment in the above
titled movie was shot and Chairman Art and others responded that
it was KRE in Berkeley, which is correct. While I was long gone
from KRE (In my day, KPAT.), I did once visit the station in Baja
that broadcast the program. There were a number of stations with
transmitters in Baja but studios in San Diego. They carried the
Mexican National Program once a week and broadcast in Spanish in
the middle of the night for 3 hours one morning a week. The rest
of the time the broadcasts were in English. This particular transmitter
site had a three tower directional and you can bet the pattern
didn't go south. I forget the make of the transmitter but it was a
cast off from up north that had seen better days. Some of the front
panel meters had been replaced by extending the meter leads to
meters that rested on wooden fruit crates out in front of the
transmitter. The transmission line was bare copper tubing and it
passed through the wall. The insulator was a water bottle with the
bottom knocked out. It had been plastered into the wall and the
copper tubing went thru the neck of the bottle.
SMPTE Meeting at Napa Valley College
Saturday April 26th at 10AM there will be a meeting in the TV studio
at Napa Valley College. The speakers will be John Hartwell and MT
Silvia. John will talk about the present state of System Integration
and MT Silvia will talk about her film Picardy Drive. MT's film is
an hour long documentary about an East Oakland neighborhood. The
film has achieved critical acclaim. It was made using all the latest
equipment and came in on budget. There aren't too many people who
can manage such a project for less than $10,000 but she and her
crew did. Total cost was under $7000.
Details at: http://members.aol.com/
Also check out
http://www.smartgirlproductions.com
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