This month our speaker will be Marc Stringer from Belden. Marc will
have some new catalogs and talk about new twisted pair cable and
smaller coax with high performance.
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 Karen Prasek at Zack's: 408-324-0551
x126 as we've been running out of tables and chairs. We meet
at 11:30 and are seated at 12:30.
The chapter 40 web page is at http://www.lns.com/sbe.
The keeper of the chapter 40 email address list is Warren Reese
his address is
Nov 8th - Living in the Modern World of MPEG-2
http://www.transmitter.com/
is Doug Lung's RF Technology Page. Doug writes the RF articles for
TV Technology. He has a collection of his articles, which are always
interesting, plus files of important information. For example he
has the FCC document on DTV channels assignments arranged by state.
http://www.garlic.com/oes/eas.htm
is Stan Harder's state OES site. Stan keeps all the latest state
EAS information there.
http://www.belden.com/ is
obvious. Question, dear friends in radio land,...is there a rock
group known as "Twisted Pair"?
http://www.afcce.org/index.html
is the site for the Association of Federal Communications Consulting
Engineers. You often can find some interesting papers posted there.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ is
the site for the National Weather Service.
Harold Hallikainen has his FCC rules site back up. Part 73 can be
found at:
http://slonet.org/~hhallika/FccRules.html
When people find out I work in TV they are often shocked to find
that my knowledge of current programming is minimal. When laughtracks
became the norm for sitcoms, I stopped watching them. I consider
sport's playoffs to be rip-offs. I stopped watching professional
football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. So what do I watch? It
ain't electronic.
Every third Sunday of the month I squeeze into the Contra Costa
Civic Theater in El Cerrito and pay my $4.00 to see the latest
episode of "The Good Lawyer", a sitcom written by Mark Wimple. The
show is in its third year and the citizens turn out in force.
Lawyer George Willoughby is a recent emigre to San Francisco from
North Dakota. He's brought his hand cranked telephone and pictures
of Lincoln with him.
His repeat client is Mrs. Worthington, who does with her Mercedes
what soldiers do with tanks. In a recent episode the Transamerica
pyramid leaped into Montgomery street and attacked her car. Her
last victim was "Crash" the bike messenger. George's immediate
neighbors are Constantine, who figured out his flat had been
burglarized because his shampoo bottles were out of order, and
Spike, the barrel chested leather wearing "Hey Dude!" biker
lady.
Also appearing in most episodes are Moonbeam, the archetypal hyper
crystal gazing new age freak ; Dominique Le Noir - the neighborhood
vampire; Boris - Dominique's hunchback; Neville Hastings - an
overacting Shakespearean actor of the Errol Fynn variety who usually
leaps down the stairs brandishing a sword; William Clark - the bad
lawyer and villain in some of the stories. Last but not least there
is Stan "the handy man" who appears out of nowhere with a white
fright wig and a cheap cigar. George is the only one who can see
him.
The audience is part of the show. They applaud entrances and exits
of their favorites and roundly hiss Clark when he appears on stage.
The show is a hoot. So who needs TV?
The presenters are Dr. Paul Farrelle of Zapex Technologies,
Jean-Georges Fritsch of Minerva. This is at Stanford.
For more complete details visit the SMPTE site at:
http://members.aol.com/SMPTEsf/index.html and click on
seminars.
The single seminar price will be $29 for SMPTE members and $39 for
SBE members. Non- members rate is $59. The entire series is $89
for SMPTE members, $129 for SBE members, and $179 for non-members.
Make checks payable to SMPTE S.F. 1997 Tutorials and mail to: Andrew
Zeyer, Finance Manager, SMPTE, 595 W. Hartsdale Av., White Plains,
NY 10607-1824.