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August 1999 San Francisco Roy Trumbull - Editor roy547@netcom.com Bill Dempster - Artist |
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Zack Electronics - (800) 998-3947 Advanced Marketing - Frank A. Santucci - (650) 365-3944 Belden - Steve Lampen - (415) 440-8393 Orban - Rick Sawyer - (360) 715-1913 MARCOM - Martin Jackson - (408) 768-8668 William F. Ruck, Jr. Broadcast Engineer - (415) 995-6969 RF Specialties of California - Bill Newbrough - (888) 737-7321 Hammett & Edison, Inc. - Dane E. Ericksen, P.E. - (707) 996-5200 LeBLANC - David A. Hill - (650) 574-4600 Pacific Research & Engineering Corp. - William Hopkins - (760) 438-3911 Keith Davidson & Company - Keith Davidson, CSBE - (707) 648-0412 Improbable Missions Fource - Mike Schweizer - (888) 4-ISDN4U Svetlana Electron Devices - George Badger - (800) 578-3852 TFT Inc. - Jesse J. Piatte, Jr. - (408) 727-7272 x504 Audio Accessories - Rosie Alexander - (510) 787-3335 Brill Electronics - Larry Shore / Inside Sales - (510) 834-5888 Scala - Michael Wm. Bach - (541) 779-6500 Scala - Everett E. Helm, CPBE - (541) 779-6500 Harris - John Briskie - (650) 593-1837 Anixter - Judy Conner - (510) 489-7430 |
BABES/SBE LUNCHEON ON WEDNESDAY Aug 25TH
As usual our luncheon will be at Sinbad's. Sinbad's is just south
of the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero near the foot of Mission
Street. Please RSVP to Carol Brahney at Zacks: 408-324-5514
(cbrahney@zackinc.com).
We meet at 11:30 and are seated at 12:30.
Our Chairman, Dane Ericksen of Hammett & Edison will speak on the
hows and whys of microwave frequency coordination.
I'm told that this is the date that software references for date functions.
At our studio, as luck would have it, the box we've been using can't quite correct for the multipath and KRON cuts out and KBHK can't be received at all. We share the same transmitting antenna. With the new box, no problem. All the stations lock up solid.
There is an on-screen signal level indicator that indicates the corrected carrier to noise ratio. That is the C/N after the signal has been equalized. A 100 corresponds to a 27 dB or better C/N. DTV threshold is an indication of 40. Below that the receiver squelches.
This receiver has all the electronics for DSS and puts out HD video, S video, and NTSC as well as signal on Ch 3/4. There are two antenna inputs.
As salty Mike Quinn, self styled "junkman", once put it to me: "Trumbull, if you got it for free and sold it for $2, you'd lose money." I once asked Mike the price of a transformer. He asked me, "How many do you want?" When I said, "One", he turned his back and walked away.
I was looking for some information on cameras. One manufacturers' net site featured product pictures and a brief paragraph. The other had that plus the full specs. When looking up a different product I found a site that had everything but the phone number of the sales office. Are we unclear on the concept or what?
For those interested in massive tomes, the PDF file format has been very helpful. But even with a high speed connection, don't expect your computer and printer to handle a 90 page document in one session. Try it in 10 page chunks instead.