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SEPTEMBER 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 Sep 29TH
As usual, our luncheon will be at Sinbad's just south of the Ferry
Building on the Embarcadero near the foot of Mission St.. Please
RSVP to Carol Brahney at Zacks: 408-324-5514
(cbrahney@zackinc.com).
We meet at 11:30 and are seated at 12:30.
Wavetek will do a presentation
on the monitoring of ATSC and MPEG-2 streams.
Bonneville San Francisco needs a Director of Engineering for KOIT, KDFC, and KZQZ. Usual "walks on water" requirements, has added a ten based t connection to his canary cage, etc.. Suggest a candidate to Chuck Tweedle 415-904-7516 Fax or ctweedle@koit.com. You might just get the $K if your candidate gets the job. Multiple suggestions from different people of the successful candidate will result in a lottery.
It dates back to the time of World War II at Bell Labs. Paul Neill first developed the N (Neill) connector for radar systems. He then worked with Carl Concelman on a connector for UHF that had a bayonet locking mechanism. The B is for bayonet and the N and C are for their names. The T in TNC stands for threaded.
The default antenna distributor is Radio Shack. According to one of the few surviving installers, their antennas are okay.
Ive tried a few Channelmaster antennas but their bowtie arrays require a separate balun.
The Installer mentioned above told me that another manufacturer, who built the 300 to 75 ohm balun into the antenna, also used a lot of plastic spacers and their antennas fell apart in record time.
In my DJ days I interviewed him. Off the record, he told me that a certain record companies royalty statements weren't to be believed. He personally had sold more of each recording that his statement indicated.
One day a moving truck come to his house with a grand piano. It was a gift from a woman whod been on the verge of committing suicide, but his eyes had told her not to do it. Those were the days.