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JUNE 2008 Volume 21, Number 3 he annual spring gathering of SBE members held during the NAB Show featured recognition of volunteer service, 10 a personal charge to members to become “cham- Canditates for pions” and prizes for some lucky winners. National Board Thirty-six chapter certification chairs were recognized for their service with pins or plaques, presented by national SBE Certification Chairman, Jim Bernier, CPBE, CBNT during the meeting. 12 That included five members who have served The annual SBE Spring Membership Meeting was held on NAB photos, for 25 years as local chapter certification chairs. Tuesday evening during the 2008 NAB Show. summary and They included James Biggers, CPBE of Chapter mento, Calif. highlights 7, Jacksonville, Fla.; Robert Good, Jr., CPBE of SBE president, Barry Thomas, CPBE, CBNT, Chapter 41, Central Pennsylvania; Robert Maw, addressed the crowd of close to 200 members, CSTE, Chapter 86, Greenville Area, S.C.; Donald highlighting accomplishments of the previous year Strauss, CPBE of Chapter 55, St. Louis, Mo.; and 16 Robert Venditti, CSRTE of Chapter 43 in Sacra- Leader-Skills Course I See NAB on page 11 date change, register now!

17 he Board of Directors of the Society of year history. Madison, WI hosts next Broadcast Engineers voted to elevate Charles, who is SBE National Meeting Leonard Charles, CPBE of Madison, known as Chuck Wisconsin to the rank of Fellow in the Society. by many, will be The Fellow membership is the highest recogni- recognized at tion the Society can bestow on a member. the 2008 SBE Nominees for Fellow are not aware they National Meeting have been nominated. Prior to Charles’ elec- on October 15, Have you visited us tion, only 69 members had been elected SBE on the web yet? Fellows over the course of the Society’s 44

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OFFICERS Barry Thomas, CPBE, CBNT, President Lincoln Financial Media • Atlanta, Ga. • [email protected] bout the time you read this, the 8-VSB; Vice-Chairman, Mark Fehlig, P.E., Vincent A. Lopez, CEV, CBNT, Vice President SBE will be presenting an CPBE, CBNT and Jere Pigue, President of the WSYT/WNYS TV • Syracuse, N.Y. • [email protected] Ennes Workshop in the Atlanta, GAB. Ted Hand, CPBE, AMD, 8-VSB Secretary Georgia area on Friday, June 6, sponsored by The Georgia program includes the follow- WSOC-TV • Charlotte, N.C. • [email protected] SBE Chapter 5 and the Georgia Association of ing speakers and presentations: Ralph Hogan, CPBE, DRB, CBNT, Treasurer n Maricopa Community College • Tempe, Ariz. Broadcasters (GAB). It will be followed later Proper Wiring Techniques for Broadcast- [email protected] this year by Ennes Workshops in Oklahoma ers; Steve Lampen, Belden Cable DIRECTORS City on August 27, Hartford, Conn. on Sep- n Tower Catastrophes: Lessons Learned; Cris Alexander, CPBE, AMD, DRB, Crawford Broadcasting Denver, Colo. • [email protected] tember 13 and Eugene, Ore. on October 24. James Heard, Electronics Research, Inc. n Ralph Beaver, CBT, Media Alert LLC The Georgia workshop is a part of the GAB Notes on IBOC Power Increase; Tim Tampa, Fla. • [email protected] Annual Summer Convention and will be held Anderson, Harris Broadcast Division James T. Bernier, Jr., CPBE, CBNT, Turner Entertainment at the Marietta Conference Center and Resort n Creative Antenna Elevation Pattern Ma- Networks, TBS, Inc. • Alpharetta, Ga. • [email protected] in Marietta, a suburb of Atlanta. nipulation; Bob Surette, Shively Labs Andrea B. Cummis, CBT, CTO, TV Magic The program will feature a full day n How Much Are We Really Saving? New Roseland, N.J. • [email protected] of technical presentations of interest to radio station construction paradigms Dane E. Ericksen, P.E., CSRTE, 8-VSB, CBNT Hammett & Edison, Inc. • San Francisco, Calif. • [email protected] broadcast engineers and technicians. Those examined; Ken Skok, Axia Audio n Clay Freinwald, CPBE Entercom Communications working in television or radio, as well as in Transmission Technologies and Coverage Auburn, Wash. • [email protected] related fields, will find the Ennes Workshop Extension for Digital Radio; Alan White, Hal H. Hostetler, CPBE, KVOA Television an excellent educational experience. Atten- Continental Electronics Corporation Tucson, Ariz. • [email protected] dance at Ennes Workshops qualifies for SBE n KREX - the Real World Disaster Recovery; Keith M. Kintner, CPBE, CBNT, University of Wisconsin recertification credit. Registration for the Skip Erickson, Harris Technical Solutions Oshkosh, Wis. • [email protected] Ennes Workshop can be made through the n New Workbench Tips; John Bisset, Broad- Jerry Massey, CPBE, CBNT, 8-VSB, AMD Entercom Communications • Greenville, S.C. SBE National Office. At this late date, please cast Electronics [email protected] call (317) 846-9000 to register. The registra- n Project Management & System Integra- Thomas R. Ray III, CPBE, Buckley Broadcasting/ tion fee is $60 for members of SBE and $70 tion 101; Tom Atkins, Diversified Systems WOR Radio • New York, N.Y. • [email protected] for non-members and includes the GAB n DTV Update; Mark Richer, Advanced Tele- Christopher D. Tarr, CBRE, DRB, CBT, CBNT, Entercom lunch with Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue vision Systems Committee (ATSC) Delafield, Wis. • [email protected] (invited) as the special speaker. n Transition of Digital Satellite News Gath- Larry J. Wilkins, CPBE, AMD, CBNT, Prattville, Ala. • [email protected] Those interested in registering for the ering to High Definition Television; George Christopher H. Scherer, CPBE, CBNT other GAB convention activities or to reserve Mancuso, Tandberg Television Immediate Past President • Radio magazine a hotel room, should visit the GAB website, n Improving DTV Coverage through On- Overland Park, Kans. • [email protected] www.gab.org. Channel and Translator Technologies; NATIONAL STAFF Ennes Trustee, Fred Baumgartner, CPBE, Richard Schwartz, Axcera John L. Poray, CAE, Executive Director one of three trustees of the Ennes Education- [email protected] al Foundation Trust, is organizing all of the Holly Essex, Communications Manager Ennes pro- [email protected] grams and Megan E. Clappe, Certification Director [email protected] serves as Scott Jones, Database Manager moderator. 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JUNE 2008 3 engineering knowledge. The SBE is well-suited to be the most n the last issue of The Signal I significant provider of broadcast introduced the committee engineering education and chairpersons that are responsible references. for driving all the great programs and  Engaged a grant writer to services we offer. I’d like to summarize explore funding for extensive the progress these committees have made education efforts for the Society. and emphasize what makes all of this  Implemented and expanded our possible. Over the last 12 months we live online RF Safety seminars. have: More seminars are being easier, careers more rewarding, and our  Formed the Marketing scheduled as a result. operations more productive. This means Committee; chaired by Conrad  Created an online survey to for every effort we engage in, every great Trautmann of chapter 15 in better understand the needs and program we produce, every service we New York City. This committee interests of our members. offer was originally championed by one was formed to find ways to  Facilitated a successful or more SBE members. better publicize actions of charitable outreach to assist the Certification was championed by Jim the Society and, by extension, Virginia Tech radio station WUVT Wulliman. our members. Among many following the horrific attacks on Frequency Coordination was originally successes, this committee was campus last year. championed by Richard Rudman. critical in creating our new  Initiated a new web site resource Our efforts in EAS have been email newsletter, SBE-News. I for broadcast engineering championed by Clay Freinwald, Leonard hope you are a subscriber. internships at SBE. Charles, and Fred Baumgartner.  Negotiated a new agreement with  Introduced the “Digital Radio Our NFL GDC Program was originally the NFL – for the tenth season Broadcast” certification, the championed by Rick Edwards. which lays the groundwork third in a series of specialist The SBE Web efforts were originally for a new program more certifications. championed by Dave Biondi and Jim fully operated by the NFL with  Published the first two books Bernier. education and referral services under our the new joint Leader Skills Seminars were provided by the Society. The publishing agreement with Focal championed by the late Bob Flanders. SBE/NFL GDC program has been Press. The CBNT Certification was a prime example of the type  Welcomed our newest chapter, championed by Terry Baun. of cooperative coordination 142 in Puerto Rico Student Chapter organization was efforts available using SBE Each of these efforts has one thing championed by Keith Kintner members. This new program in common. Each one had a member A new marketing effort is being will also usher in a new role leader who took on the project, provided championed by Conrad Trautmann. for the Society and its members focus and direction to bring it to And, of course our very existence as in Frequency Coordination. fruition. This member wasn’t necessarily a Society we can credit to the efforts of The Society will be developing an SBE director or officer. They were John Battison. training programs in RF Event members who saw an opportunity and These members saw an opportunity Coordination. felt strongly enough to be the champion. and made a commitment to help make  Developed new direction with The Society of Broadcast Engineers their vision into a reality through our the Education Committee – isn’t an organization like our hosts, shared efforts. These efforts are now Chair Cris Alexander is leading the NAB. We’re a professional society championed by their committee chairs; development on new on-demand that depends on volunteer service. Our members who continue to have a vested webinars that will cover the 5,500 members working together to interest in the success of the program. length and breadth of media advance our career field, make our jobs I don’t mean to say that these 4 the SIGNAL member or members are not passionate enough about an issue to act, most often the issue will not get addressed. I can think off-hand of several really important and great efforts that I want the SBE to lead. Unfortunately, there simply is not a groundswell of interest to follow up and work the ideas to their natural end…yet. We’ve convened strategic planning meetings that generated ideas that we’re still putting into play but each idea we’ve implemented has had a champion. Vice President Vinny Lopez, through his Strategic Planning Committee has begun SBE President Barry Thomas encourages members during the membership meeting surveying our members. Through this at the 2008 NAB Show. we’re going to get a clearer impression of our membership and your perspectives members do these things single-handed. “the SBE should….” (I admit I hear it a on the programs we’re providing. You’ll The most sustainable of our programs bit less now because people are realizing also have a chance to tell us “what are have strong committees that share I have a typical answer: “You may be we doing right?” “What are we doing their work and have succession plans for right! Can you help make this happen?”). wrong?” “What should we be doing?” committee leadership. All of our efforts I tell you this because I know we have We want to hear your ideas. Don’t be depend greatly on Executive Director lots of great ideas for things the SBE surprised, however if we ask you to help John Poray and his national staff but the “Should be doing.” I can bet that some us do it. national office is focused on running the of them have been even referred to the If you think the SBE SHOULD be doing business of the society. They do a great SBE leadership and members have been something. Get people together who feel job. So much so that all of the efforts I disappointed that the idea wasn’t acted the same way and let’s make it happen! mentioned are now part of the National upon. The problem is, without a member I look forward to working with our next Office operation. However....If there’s a champion, the idea just won’t happen. SBE Champion. new idea or strategic effort we need to Our society operates in the service and engage in, it falls to us, the members to support of its members and responds to get the project off the ground. those things that are important enough I tell you this because I always hear for members to commit to action. If a

ay 31 closed the 2008 annual SBE Membership Drive. Even though The Signal went to press prior to the Drive’s end, it looks like this will again be a very successful effort All current SBE Members who sponsored a new member during this year’s drive will receive $5 off their 2008 Mem- bership Renewal for each new Regular, Associate or Sustaining member that was sponsored (up to $25). In addition, sponsors will have their names entered into the Membership Drive Prize Drawing. The name of one newly recruited member will also be drawn for a prize. Prizewinners will be drawn on June 21. THANK YOU to the following organizations who, through the donation of prizes, helped make the 2008 Membership Drive pos- sible: n Westwood One n Telos Systems / Omnia / Axia n Superior Electric n ADC n Broadcast Supply Worldwide n Kathrein Scala n McGraw-Hill n Neural Audio n Continental Electronics n Elsevier n Shively Labs n Broadcast Electronics n Jack Layton n Dielectric n Continental Electronics n National Association of Broadcasters n du Treil, Lundin & Rackley, Inc. n Sony

JUNE 2008 5 BY Chris Imlay, CBT merely a way to assess blame or express involvement SBE General Counsel frustration. An association, be it SBE, in the 2 GHz his Spring, SBE has been involved the NRA, or the AARP, is always a good relocation in a number of different lightning rod for blame if something effort? In endeavors to assist in management goes wrong. Sometimes the association its effort to of the Broadcast Auxiliary spectrum. SBE falls short, and the lightning rod is being negotiate good has viewed itself as one of the principal rightly held in the association’s hands. spectrum [email protected] “stewards” of BAS spectrum management When I hear of these incidents, sharing plans for quite a few years now. The rationale though, the first question I have is with the Department of Defense? In its of the SBE Board of Directors in whether or not the person making the efforts to protect 2 GHz from Mobile assuming this mantle has always been suggestion is an SBE member. SBE is very Satellite Service interference? Aren’t those that broadcast engineers are, by station outgoing with respect to non-members efforts really of direct benefit to Station management, typically charged with who attend chapter meetings and such, management? It seems to me that they making use of that spectrum, and making and that is just fine. An association needs are if you look at the trees, but not if you broadcast operations that use that to be open and welcoming in order look at the forest instead. spectrum work. As the result, it needs to to succeed. SBE’s Board meetings are It always surprises me when I sit down be protected and administered carefully. always open to anyone who wants to to assemble a report to the SBE Board of That is the same rationale for SBE’s attend. Its chapter meetings are the same Directors or its Executive Committee just frequency coordination program, which way. But when it comes to suggesting how many different advocacy issues SBE is a major, probably the overarching, how SBE ought to spend its members’ is typically involved with at any one time. means by which SBE conducts BAS dues, or blames the Society for not Many times, SBE advocacy initiatives are spectrum management efforts. Broadcast participating in something, I personally suggested by its FCC Liaison Committee, engineers understand the BAS bands and want to hear that from one of SBE’s whose members are, with some their use far better than do others in the members. It is the price of admission to exceptions, not members of the SBE’s broadcast industry because they work making suggestions about allocation of Board of Directors. These are dedicated with it daily. It all makes sense. resources. And if the question is asked broadcast engineers with their ears to the SBE devotes a good deal of its “where was SBE” while some horrible ground in the industry. Case in point: the resources to its advocacy program, event was taking place, I want to hear modification of the Universal Licensing mostly at the FCC. You read about that from a member of the Society who System (ULS) to add receive site entry some issue affecting the SBE’s advocacy has a right to demand to know where fields (so that TV pickups, for example, program in these pages in each issue his or her professional society was at can be protected by spectrum sharing of the Signal, almost always related to the time something bad happens in the partners. Sometimes the initiatives come BAS allocations and their administration industry, and has the right to chastise from members of the Board of Directors and use. Often times, SBE members SBE’s officers, directors, and employees themselves. Case in point: the SBE’s effort and non-members publish something (and yes, its independent contractors to convert FCC to NAD 83 datum instead suggesting that SBE “ought to be doing” too) for missing an opportunity to of NAD 27. Sometimes they come from this or that. The more pejorative version advocate their interests. strategic partners, such as NAB or MSTV. of this kind of thing is when something But there has always been some And sometimes they come from folks we happens at FCC, on Capitol Hill or in uneasiness about SBE’s spectrum get to know and respect in the course of the industry generally that is distasteful management efforts, because it is our advocacy effort who have little to do to the engineer commenting on it, and sometimes difficult to see how the with broadcast engineering or BAS use the engineer publicly asks “where was advocacy program, focused as it is themselves, such as our good friends in SBE” while this affront to the broadcast toward protecting BAS spectrum in the Spectrum Management offices at the engineering profession was going particular, translates directly into a Department of Defense, and the good on. Sometimes these suggestions are membership benefit for broadcast folks at Sprint Nextel who we have found constructive; sometimes they are justified engineers. How does a radio station ourselves partnered with on certain criticisms, and sometimes they are engineer benefit from SBE’s heavy initiatives. 6 the SIGNAL There was a time when people at them on the 2 GHz relocation issue, we have worked closely with Sprint Nextel NAB said to us “gee, SBE, why don’t you had an opportunity to persuade them to to facilitate a gentle and interference- stick with what you do best, which is withdraw their opposition to it. As the free rebanding of the 2 GHz band, with certification and frequency coordination, result of eliminating the opposition, the the MSS dogs barking at the door to and leave the government relations and FCC issued a release in April agreeing to start operations before we are finished. spectrum management to us.” Well, add the receive site field. While we have More on all these spectrum management they don’t say that anymore. They work yet to see how they do this, and some initiatives as we go along. The points I well with us and they ask for our help software configurations in doing this are want to leave you with are two: First of in joint initiatives that benefit broadcast far better than others, this is a big victory all, the SBE’s spectrum management management and broadcast engineers for broadcasters. It was unexpected efforts, I believe, do benefit you as a alike. And one reason why they don’t also, because just before this release broadcast engineer. It helps you create say things like that anymore is that SBE came out announcing the ULS change, your product. If BAS allocations are members have shown themselves to be the Wireless Bureau Deputy Chief, at a healthy, your product can be as healthy pretty darn savvy about BAS allocations. Land Mobile Communications Council as you can make it. The BAS allocations are important to forum in Washington, announced that The second point is that, if your SBE members. Maybe 2 GHz is getting changes sought by various segments of professional society seems to be all of the attention these days, because the communications industry in the ULS ignoring something that you think it is under the gun most often, but no would not be accommodated due to an should be advocated, and if you are an matter. Next week, it may be the 944 upcoming planned overhaul of the entire SBE member, then by all means let’s MHz Aural STL band. And we will be ULS concept. The ULS is more than ten hear about it. You have paid the cover ready to dedicate whatever resources it years old now, and a substitute for it is charge. You have invested in a very eager, takes to defend that band if and when the apparently in the works. Our proposed willing Board of Directors to represent time comes. Does that help broadcast modification, however, was apparently you and competent officers to effectuate owners? Sure. Does it serve the interests compelling enough to justify the change the Board’s instructions. You have a of broadcast engineers as well? Sure it sought nevertheless. professional staff in Indianapolis that does. Your product, and the fruit of your SBE has had meetings recently likes nothing more than to hear your labors, is the quality of the broadcast with the Department of Defense, to ideas. You have an open forum in this signal. We have to protect the product. coordinate a dozen satellite uplinks column for your arguments about and There are some interesting recent in the government’s Space Operation evaluations of SBE’s advocacy program developments in our spectrum Service in (where else?) the 2 GHz band, and the direction in which it should go. management efforts. Referenced which have worked out very well indeed. And you have an FCC Liaison Committee briefly above is SBE’s apparently quite We have begun to coordinate with whose ears are to the ground all the time, successful effort to cause FCC to add T-Mobile to accommodate interference- and who provide input to the Board on fields to the ULS to permit licensees to free use by broadcasters of Channel 7 regulatory matters affecting the broadcast add receive site information. We had at 2 GHz following startup of T-Mobile’s industry. There are a lot of receivers out filed RM-11308 because our informal UMTS A-Block downlinks at 2110-2220 there. Transmit. negotiations with FCC staff did not result MHz. We have worked closely with in any commitment to add these fields. our strategic Because it is impossible for other radio partners to John C. Breckenridge Jr. services which share BAS spectrum with continue President broadcasters and which are obligated to opposition of the protect BAS from interference cannot do nightmarishly so if the receive site information is not in inappropriate the database, we felt that we had to push proposal of this. Hard. After the filing of the petition, Clarity Media Sprint Nextel opposed it, because Systems, LLC to they perceived it as an indirect effort operate Trucker to cause them additional substantive TV in the entire P.O. Box 1740 Phone: (360) 793-6564 interference resolution obligations. 2 GHz band. And Sultan WA 98294-1740 Fax: (360) 793-4402 Because of our strategic alliance with of course we www.seacomm.com [email protected]

JUNE 2008 7 BY Jim Bernier, CPBE, CBNT Certification Committee Chairman aturday evening before NAB2008 training, we generally equate 10 contract geographic opened, the SBE National hours with 1 credit for recertification. areas or Certification Committee met, as It would seem that by requiring employment has been the custom, for more years than recertification candidates to achieve situations

I’ve been on the committee. The agenda a total number of credits across a which Jim Bernier is usually lengthy with various items to minimum number of categories that are not consider and discuss. This year, the we achieve the goal of demonstrating conducive to discussion was dominated by the issue of professional participation and continuing formal continuing education methods. recertification and continuing education. education. Your thoughts and comments on this In order to recertify, a certified Or have we? would be welcomed. individual must submit a record of Over the years, the Certification The other item of discussion involved credits earned over the last five years. Committee has added various credits the need to review and update a number Most certification levels require 20 for activities in different categories. It is of certification categories. For instance, credits, while senior engineer level possible to accumulate enough credits we know that the current CBNT question requires 25 credits and professional for recertification across the minimum pool includes some questions that are broadcast engineer level requires of four categories and not take a single becoming archaic. There are fewer and 30 credits. Those credits must be course during the recertification fewer computer networks in broadcast distributed among at least four of 10 period of five years. While the credits facilities using 10Base2 network designs. defined categories. demonstrate extensive participation in February 17, 2009 will also nearly The purpose of recertification is to the industry and technical societies, it obsolete many NTSC transmission demonstrate continuing professional was concerning to the Committee that questions, or will it? Many LPTVs and participation in the industry and someone could recertify without any translators will continue to operate with continuing education in the technologies continuing education, especially in light analog NTSC transmission systems. The that impact the industry. Participation of the speed of technology changes taking Certification Committee will continue to is fairly easy to measure through place today. review not only the questions themselves, employment, membership in technical The Certification Committee did not but also the balance of questions posed societies and participation in those make any changes to the recertification as part of each test. societies. process as a result of this discussion. The Certification Committee continues Continuing education, it would seem, We are reviewing the process to see if to solicit feedback from the membership, should also be fairly easy to demonstrate there’s a way to fairly compel a certain both certified and non-certified, to and measure. Continuing Education level of continuing education on each better understand what we can do to Units, CEUs, are commonly used by many recertifying candidate. We want to be make certification valuable to more continuing education centers. For those careful so as not to adversely impact people. If you have ideas, suggestions or classes or schools that do not use CEUs, those SBE Certified engineers working in comments, please feel free to email me at such as factory schools or in-station [email protected].

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LIFE CERTIFICATION Certified Broadcast networking Kayla Rodiger, Tujunga, CA William Mooney, Bigelow, AR technologist® (CBNT®) Nicholas Thompson, Los Angeles, CA John Wenzelberger, Worthington, OH – Certified Professional Broadcast Engineers® David Campbell, Salt Lake City, UT – Alex Tsou, Artisia, CA Chapter 52 and Certified Senior Broadcast Engineers® Chapter 62 Jose Venegas, South Pasadena, CA who have maintained SBE certification Roger Dawson, Hurricane, WV – Certified AUDIO ENGINEER® (CEA®) continuously for 20 years and are current Chapter 116 CBS Radio-Los Angeles Gary Faller, Winter Garden, FL – Chapter 42 members of SBE may be granted Life Russel Hall, Albuquerque, NM – Chapter 34 Jon Bartels, Alhambra, CA Certification if so requested. All certified Wesley Jones, Tracy, CA – Chapter 40 Certified VIDEO ENGINEER® (CEV®) who have retired from regular full-time Jonathan Kriens, Livermore, CA – Chapter 40 CERTIFIED TELEVISION Kristaq Kalanderi, Saugus, MA – Chapter 11 employment may be granted Life Certification Barry McClain, San Jose, CA – Chapter 40 ® ® if they so request. If the request is approved, Johnney Wright, Monticello, FL – Chapter 7 OPERATOR (CTO ) Certified Broadcast NETWORKING the person will continue in his/her current Certified Television Operator® TECHNOLOGIST® (CBNT®) level of certification for life. NAB EXAMS (CTO®) Philip Cianci, Alexandria, VA – Chapter 15 Harry Bond, Memphis, TN Manuel Esteve, South San Francisco, CA – Certified BROADCAST RADIO Matthew Compton, Cleveland, TN Chapter 40 CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL BROADCAST ENGINEER (CBRE®) Kenneth Constant, Nampa, ID Dennis Eversoll, Lenexa, KS – Chapter 59 ENGINEER® (CPBE®) Mark Bochert, Fargo, ND – Chapter 17 Stephen Dixon, Pocatello, ID Gary Hetler, San Antonio, TX – Chapter 69 Jon Blomstrand, St. Paul, MN – Chapter 17 Josh Jones, Fargo, ND – Chapter 17 Russ Fulbright, Lubbock, TX Billy Humphrey, Inland Empire, CA – Benjamin Hill, Pennsauken, NJ – Chapter 18 Nicholas Helton, Cleveland, TN Chapter 131 SBE CERTIFIED SCHOOL Certified BROADCAST TELEVISION Zach Huffaker, Cleveland, TN Elmir Husetovic, Lombard, IL – Chapter 26 ENGINEER (CBTE®) Susan John, Virginia Beach, VA Donald Lamy, Cooper City, FL – Chapter 53 COURSE COMPLETION Brian Hughes, Cotati, CA – Chapter 40 Steven Jones, Cleveland, TN Charles Mikowski, Grand Rapids, MI – Certified Broadcast Technologist® Joseph Kramarczyk, Palm Springs, CA – Ryan Kornstadt, Grand Rapids, MI Chapter 102 (CBT) Chapter 131 Joseph Kramarczyk, Palm Springs, CA Christopher Scherer, Overland Park, KS – Tamara Muentes, Portsmouth, VA Chapter 59 Bates Technical College Certified Broadcast networking Ann Marie Rivera, Reading, PA Michael Vranisky, Moreno Valley, CA – Lawrence Barrows, Tenino, WA – Chapter 16 technologist® (CBNT®) Anthony Stokes Chapter 131 Mitchel Flannery, Fife, WA – Chapter 16 William Case, Springfield, MO – Chapter 56 Michael Sothard, Cleveland, TN Andrew Hall, Tacoma, WA – Chapter 16 George Molnar, Chicago, IL – Chapter 26 Skylar West, Las Vegas, NV Certified Broadcast Joshua Huxhold, Lakewood, WA – Chapter Kathy Wheelock, Charlotte, NC Technologist® (CBT) 16 Certified Television Operator® William Bommarito, Woodhaven, MI – Michael Kempton, Tacoma, WA – Chapter 16 (CTO®) RECERTIFICATION Chapter 104 Martin Matthews, Henderson, NV Sanford Boyd, Andalusia, AL – Chapter 118 The following applicants completed Southern Alberta Institute of Philip Collier, Chicago, IL – Chapter 26 the recertification process either by re- Technology John Duffy, Baldwinsville, NY – Chapter 22 CERTIFIED BY LICENSE examination, point verification through the Tyler Godsman, Calgary, AB Canada David Freeman, Key West, FL – Chapter 53 local chapters and national Certification Vineet Saini, Calgary, AB Canada Certified Broadcast Thomas Griffiths, Ashland, OH – Chapter 20 Committee approval and/or met the service Technologist® (CBT) Derrick Grove, Naples, FL – Chapter 113 requirement. FEBRUARY EXAMS Daniel Copher, Front Royal, VA – Chapter 78 Andrew Levine, N. Shirley, NY – Chapter 15 David Dybas, Buffalo Grove, IL – Chapter 26 Isaac Lopez, Knoxville, TN – Chapter 113 “Thank You” CHAPTER CERTIFICATION Gregory Gade, Omaha, NE – Chapter 74 Certified Professional Broadcast CHAIRS FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE Mark Long, Nicoma Park, Ok – Chapter 85 Engineer® (CPBE®) Certified TELEVISION OPERATOR® James Prociw, Nine Mile Falls, WI – Gary Ellingson, Moorhead, MN (CTO®) Certified SENIOR Television Chapter 16 Dennis Eversoll, Lenexa, KS – Chapter 59 Nicole Alexander, Wildomar, CA – Engineer (CSTE®) Marshall Tipton, Hilton, VA – Chapter 113 Michael Vranisky, Moreno Valley, CA – Chapter 131 Paul Burnham, Poughkeepsie, NY – Rodney Zeigler, Lexington, NE – Chapter 87 Chapter 131 James Dean, Martinez, GA Chapter 58 William Warthman, Athens, OH – Chapter 52 Tom Gross, Morrison, CO CERTIFIED RADIO Michael McCormick, Ogallala, NE – Certified AM Directional ® ® Certified SENIOR Television Chapter 87 specialist (AMD) OPERATOR (CRO ) Engineer (CSTE®) Bradley Meyer, Collinsville, OK – Chapter 56 Gary Blau, Plantation, FL – Chapter 53 Certified RADIO OPERATOR® (CRO) Kevin Fournier, Stephens City, VA – Chapter Joseph Olano, Moreno Valley, CA – Paul Christensen, Jacksonville, FL – Ryan Hazelwood, Canyon, TX 37 Chapter 131 Chapter 7 Frederick Lewis, Houston, TX – Chapter 105 Deno Thomatos, Denver, CO – Chapter 48 John Ross, Brownsville, TX – Chapter 136 Pasadena city college Certified 8-VSB specialist (8-VSB) Jussef Ayala, Duarte, CA Certified BROADCASt RADIO Certified RADIO Operator® (CRO) Paul Christensen, Jacksonville, FL – Joshua Candelaria, Sierra Madre, CA Engineer (CBRE®) Benjamin Echols, Riverside, CA – Chapter Chapter 7 Lesleeane Chavez, LaPuente, CA Timothy Walker, Ruffin, NC – Chapter 78 131 Digital radio broadcast specialist (DRB) David Dennis, LaCanada, CA Arthur Mistretta, Riverside, CA – Chapter 131 Edwin Bukont, Bel Air, MD – Chapter 37 Michael Flores, Rosemead, CA Certified Broadcast Television Joseph Olano, Moreno Valley, CA – Chapter Jerry Massey, Greenville, SC – Chapter 86 Shota Haze, Sierra Madre, CA Engineer (CBTE®) 131 Bruce Ziemienski, Riverside, CA – Albert Hou, Monterey Park, CA Philip Cianci, Alexandria, VA – Chapter 15 Chapter 131 Jonathan Praniuk, La Puente, CA Gary Hetler, San Antonio, TX – Chapter 69 Jorge Retana, II, Los Angeles, CA David Joseph, San Jose, CA – Chapter 40

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Combined Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Assets - BY Chriss Scherer, CPBE, CBNT December 31, 2007 ASSETS: Nominations Committee Chairman, Immediate Past President Cash and cash equivalents $376,197 s per the SBE bylaws, The SBE Nominations Committee is responsible to provide Investments $864,861 a slate of candidates for the next election. The committee, of which I am the Office Equipment $11,028 chairman, has three voting members: Robert P. Hess, CPBE, Chapter 43; Kevin Intangible Assets $12,441 C. Kidd, CSRE AMD, Chapter 111; and Eric D. Reinert, CBTE, Chapter 120. The committee Total Assets: $1,264,527 has reviewed SBE members eligible for election to hold officer or director positions with LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS: the SBE, and the following slate of candidates has been assembled. All four officer posi- Liabilities $0 Net assests $1,264,527 tions will be included in the upcoming election, and six of the 12 director seats will be Total Liabilities & Net Assets: $1,264,527 included in the upcoming election. The committee’s slate of 2007 SBE Audited Revenue & officer candidates are: The committee has assembled a list of eight Expense Statement* PRESIDENT candidates who are interested in running INCOME: Membership Fees & Support $360,102 Barry Thomas, for the six available board seats. Two of the CPBE CBNT National Meeting $26,836 candidates are currently completing a term Certification $73,729 as a director. Promotion $2,343 The committee’s slate of candidates for Book Sales $14,835 directors are: Directory & Newsletter $88,665 Ralph Beaver, CBT * Frequency Coordination $39,966 Jim Bernier, CPBE CBNT * Education Services $47,409 VICE Troy Langham, CPBE Interest & Dividend Income $68,101 PRESIDENT Gary Liebisch, CPBE Net Realized/Unrealized Vinny Lopez, James Leifer, CPBE Gains from Investments ($2,671) CEV CBNT Scott Mason, CPBE Miscellaneous Income $11,754 Total Income: $731,069 Mark T. Simpson, CPBE CBNT AMD

Jeff Smith, CEA CBNT EXPENSES: An asterisk indicates incumbent status. Member Services $268,570 Officers serve one-year terms, and direc- Chapter Rebates $35,607 Secretary tors serve two-year terms. Half the direc- National Meeting $20,612 Ted Hand, tors are elected each year to stagger the Publications/Communications $100,554 CPBE CBNT terms. Certification $75,942 AMD VSB While the Nominations Committee has Education $36,203 completed its task of assembling a slate of Frequency Coordination $10,443 candidates, nominations from the mem- Administration $69,710 bership at large can still be submitted to Amortization $840 Depreciation $18,700 the SBE secretary until July 14, 2008. To Total Expenses: $637,181 Treasurer be nominated at large, a candidate must Ralph Hogan, meet the eligibility requirements and have CPBE CBNT the support of 10 SBE members in good CHANGE IN NET ASSETS: $93,888 AMD standing. NET ASSETS 12/31/2006: $1,170,639 Ballots will be mailed to SBE members NET ASSETS 12/31/2007: $1,264,527 in late July and are due back to the Nation- * Audited statement reflects cash accounting method. al Office by Aug. 28, 2008. Newly elected Investments are listed at market value. officers and directors will take office at the 10 SBE National Meeting on Oct. 15, 2008. the SIGNAL chair, Ralph Beaver, CBT, recognized NAB from page 1 newly accredited SBE frequency co- ordinators. They included, J. Robert and outlining the goals for the coming 12 Keeler, CSBE, Hixon, Texas; Thomas months. Lowther, CSRTE, CBNT, Twin Falls, Members of the NAB Broadcast Engi- Idaho and Cynthia Quitmeyer, Atlanta, neering Conference (BEC) committee were Ga. recognized for their work in organizing the The SBE Membership Meeting six-day conference. SBE has been NAB’s was sponsored by SBE Sustaining organizing partner for the BEC since 1995. Member, Microwave Radio Commu- SBE member, Steve Fluker, of Cox Radio in nications (MRC). That support made Orlando, Fla., served as chairman of the possible some nice prizes including committee for 2008. Fred Baumgartner, a four-port USB hub that went to the first CPBE CBNT organized the annual Ennes 100 members in attendance. Three mem- people joined SBE during the Show and an- Workshop, this year on “File-based Work- bers received gift cards to a well-known other 41 members took the opportunity to flow,” which had as many as 400 people in national restaurant chain and one lucky renew their membership while visiting the attendance. winner, Anthony Tsosi, of Univision in Salt booth. On Tuesday, there was a one-hour A donation to the Ennes Educational Lake City, Utah took home the big prize of “meet the author” session in the booth with Foundation Trust Scholarship Fund of a Panasonic 40 GB video camera with case SBE Board Member, Tom Ray, CPBE. Tom $2,500 was presented by the Southern and a 2 GB memory card. authored SBE’s first joint publication with California Frequency Coordination Commit- Besides their sponsorship, George Focal Press, “HD Radio Implementation.” tee (SCFCC) in memory of long-time SCFCC Maier, CSTE, presented an MRC donation The SBE Board of Directors met on member, John Russell, who passed away of $500 to president Thomas for the Ennes Sunday morning to conduct the Society’s earlier this year. Presenting the donation Scholarship Fund. Our Thanks to MRC for business and a number of Society com- on behalf of SCFCC were past national SBE their continuing support of SBE and the mittees met during the week, including president, Richard Rudman, CPBE and Ennes Scholarship Fund. Certification, Frequency Coordination, members Howard Fine, Scott Mason, CPBE In spite of about a 5% drop in NAB EAS, Publications, Strategic Planning and and Barry Victor. Show attendance from the previous year, Marketing. Frequency Coordination Committee the SBE booth saw brisk traffic. Seventeen

SBE Roundtable – SBE’s member If you have not yet renewed your mem- e-mail discussion bership in the Society of Broadcast Engi- group created to neers, you risk losing valuable member benefits, such as insurance coverage, access facilitate discussions about to JobsOnline and the ResumeBank and dis- the Society. counts on workshops, seminars and books. Membership renewal notices were mailed to all members, seniors, associates and stu- EAS Exchange – An SBE-sponsored dents in February. Renewal was due April 1, e-mail discussion group about the 2008. If you did not receive your notice with Emergency Alert System. a new membership card, please contact Holly Essex at [email protected] or (317) 846-9000. Sign up for both on the SBE website at www.sbe.org

JUNE 2008 11 A 40-inch Sony LCD television was added to the Membership Drive Grand Prize and was displayed in the SBE Booth during the Show.

The SBE Booth at this year’s show.

Board member and author Tom Ray, CPBE, signed Close to 200 members participated in the annual spring SBE his book, HD Radio, for a customer during his book Membership Meeting. signing at the SBE booth.

Richard Rudman, CPBE; Barry Victor; Howard Fine and Scott George Maier, CSTE, representing SBE Membership Mason, CPBE representing the Southern California Frequency Meeting sponsor, MRC, presented a donation of Coordination Committee (SCFCC) presented a donation of $2,500 $500 to the Ennes Scholarship Fund. to the Ennes Educational Foundation Trust in memory of SCFCC member John Russell who passed away earlier this year.

12 the SIGNAL David Fort, CPBE; Ernest Harvey, CSRTE; Britt Lockhart, CPBE were recognized for their first year of service as their chapter’s Certification Chairman.

Business Development Specialist, Andre Adams of Excelsior College, gave a presentation on the College’s degree credit program through SBE.

Bill Croghan, CPBE and Richard Serre, CBT, CBNT, were recognized for their 15 years of service as their chapter’s Certification Chairman.

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Brian D. Morgan, CPBE and Rick Ryan, CPBE were recognized for their 20 years of service as their Chapter’s Certification Chairmen. Immediate Past President Chriss Scherer, CPBE, CBNT, gave recognition to Virginia Tech student, Kevin Sterne, chief engineer of the campus radio station, who was wounded in the attack one year earlier.

Steve Fluker; Al Grossniklaus, CBT; John Merrill received their BEC Committee Certificates.

SBE member Anthony Tsosie Troy Pennington, CSRE, CBNT, recognized for his 15 years of serivce on the National Certification Committee, with won a Sony 40G Hard drive SBE President Barry Thomas, CPBE, CBNT and Chriss Camcorder during the prize Scherer, CPBE, CBNT who was recognized for his 10 years of service on the National Certification Committee. drawing at the SBE spring membership meeting. JUNE 2008 13 0IXYWLIPT]SYXLVSYKLXLI HMKMXEPXVERWMXMSRERHFI]SRH

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14 the SIGNAL NEW MEMBERS Ralph B. Hetzel - Medical Lake, WA Shawn P. Wixted - Baltimore, MD Ken Rodgers - Ramona, CA Christopher R. Auker - Carteret, NJ Jim Jensen - Mooresville, NC Ben Adams - Wayland, MI Brian A. Kloeckner - Jacksonville, FL Mark A. Borchert - Fargo, ND Wesley Orwan - Harrisburg, PA Tony A. Bolden - Tucker, GA Daniel Burton - Greenbelt, MD Steven J. Gallagher - derry, NH Craig A. Pocock - Bristol, CT Blake Cates - Tulsa, OK Vincent P. Atwood - Los Angeles, CA James L. Jackson - New York, NY Mary A. Williamson - Flagstaff, AZ David L. Diels - Sandy, UT Bryan A. Harz - Pasadena, MD Josh P. Jones - Fargo, ND Rex W. Athey - Harrisburg, PA Chris Emhardt - Santa Monica, CA Jermaine W. Johnson - Rowlett, TX Joseph E. Kramarczyk - Palm John C. Brasfield - Quinton, AL William E. Harp - Peru, NY Annie L. Billings - Euless, TX Springs, CA Christopher D. Clayton - Kevin Ossenfort - Middleburg, FL Matthew A. Klimkowski - Lebanon, TN Patrick G. Lee - Greer, SC Cartersville, GA Dominic S. Piarulli - Yonkers, NY David M. Klimkowski - Lebanon, TN Mark A. Long - Nicoma Park, OK Gregory A. Gade - Omaha, NE Matthias J. Bleicken - Fort Meade, Derek D. Folks - Tampa, FL Gregory M. Roehr - Beverly, MA Michael G. Kaletta - Birmingham, MD Adam Johnson - Asheville, NC Andrew M. Salive - Ferndale, MI AL Brian D. Cook - South Bend, IN Franklin W. Bell - Clifton, NJ Jason Shattuck - Huntsville, AL George R. Kemp - Canyon Country, Brian E. Dugger - Tustin, CA Kenny Elcock - Honolulu, HI George Smith - Hagatna, GU CA Thomas A. Gladwell - Toledo, OH Terry J. Harvey - Chandler, AZ Dale M. Dutridge - Swanton, OH Amanda Lubinski - Odessa, MO Samuel H. Kunz - Gilbert, AZ Richard S. Tallent - Orange, TX Michael L. Harris - Novato, CA Andrew S. McHaddad - Canyon Horace M. Murray - Glen Burnie, Thomas J. Toenjes - St. Marys, KS Peter J. Ives - Stoughton, WI Country, CA MD Naveed Aslam - Peachtree City, GA Pete McLean - Eau Claire, WI Joseph Mouhanna - Kirkland, WA Jose D. Placido - Elk Grove, CA Antonio J. Bautista - Chicago, IL David R. Schank - Greenfield, WI Tri V. Nguyen - Garland, TX Gregory Powell - Chandler, AZ Jon P. Bennett - College Station, TX Min-Ho Song - Louisville, CO Ian L. Perry - Reno, NV Mark H. Samuel - San Francisco, Steven Sabin - Glen Rock, NJ Juan M. Sosa - Tamarac, FL Randolph R. Staley - Redlands, CA CA David P. Thompson - Bedford, TX Clarence C. Willwerth - Saint Marshall D. Tipton - Hilton, VA Tyler R. Lecceadone - Rockford, MI Augustine, FL Marty Brewer - Twin Falls, ID NEW STUDENT MEMBERS Yancy T. McNair - Pensacola, FL Samuel Astuto, Jr. - Delray Beach, Anthony A. Dennis - Akron, OH Brian A. Graves - Chapel Hill, NC Marcus Q. Potier - San Antonio, TX FL Jerod L. Getz - Grants Pass, OR Vaughn W. Stull - Uhrichsville, OH Vincent Giordano - Safety Harbor, FL Ray J. Bitner - Bertrand, NE Leighton M. Reed-Nickerson - Tyler G. Slentz - Athens, OH James R. Mertins - Tulsa, OK Walter Bohlin - Weare, NH Camas, WA Zabie M. Sharify - Centreville, VA David W. Agnew - Windsor, CO Richard E. Byrd - Douglasville, GA Zsolt L. Vicsacsan - Phoenix, AZ Tyler S. Godsman - Calgary, Alberta, Nathanael L. Reeder - Longmont, CO David D. Campbell - Salt Lake City, Charlie Cannaliato - Missoula, MT Canada Rod J. Lane - Southington, CT UT Delyle A. Martin - Lawrenceville, GA Jeoung S. Park - Calgary, Alberta, Steven P. Gay - El Dorado, AR Russel L. Hall - Albuquerque, NM Thomas A. Strauch - San Antonio, Canada Ken Holden - Fresno, CA Ian Hartley - Pueblo, CO TX Ryan M. Pushor - Calgary, Alberta, Maurice L. Swain - Georgetown, TX Robert E. Helbush - Atlanta, GA Timothy W. Gordon - Panama City, Canada Mark J. Olszewski - Titusville, FL Michael A. Herring - Cocoa, FL FL Vineet P. Saini - Calgary, Alberta, Ronald L. Thompson - West Covina, CA Joe D. Meldrum - Omaha, NE Michael J. Kelly - Fayette, ME Canada John S. Salt - Chicago, IL Ron Petricka - Fairfax, VA Michael D. Redfearn - Buckeye, AZ Terrance N. Medina - Athens, GA John A. Stefanick - Denville, NJ William A. Sherwood, Jr. - Tulsa, OK Padrag Acheson, Jr. - Dillsboro, NC Souma B. Wanta - Chester, VA George H. Ryan - Norman, OK Lester Bach - Wichita, KS Charles B. Bornstein - Houston, TX Thomas A. Shanks, III - Atlanta, GA Curt M. Yengst - Allentown, PA Walter G. Barnes - Louisville, TN John R. Bowles - Norfolk, VA Nicholas A. Lopez - Indianapolis, IN Ryan Oler - Mesa, AZ David C. Beauvais - Hanson, MA Robert F. deBettencourt - Silver Jason L. Thompson - Kokomo, IN A. Lee Clardy, III - Lafayette, LA Bruce Bolf - La Quinta, CA Spring, MD Max W. Cramer - Glendale, AZ Robert P. Boone - Norfolk, VA Bob Derryberry - Nashville, TN NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS William M. Guyger - Dallas, TX Stephen Dixon - Pocatello, ID Travis C. Glazener - Las Vegas, NV Thomas E. Fahy - Washington, DC Scott D. Henning - Durango, CO John A. Jernigan - Cary, NC Dave L. Kalahar - Bakersfield, CA Matthew J. Mommaerts - Waunakee, WI Frank Lucia - Frederick, MD Daniel J. Kerr - Atlanta, GA NEW YOUTH MEMBERS Otto Schellin - Pittsburgh, PA Christopher Maler - Holbrook, NY Kimberly Leary-Thomas - Clinton, Michael J. Nutting - Fairport, NY James A. Moore - Madera, CA Brook Reichel - Orlando, FL MD Kelsey D. Vargas - El Paso, TX Ronald L. Myers - Archamps, FRANCE Phillip G. Richards - Los Angeles, Lara R. Prejean - Monroe, NC Andrew T. Beck - Phoenix, AZ Thomas W. Parrish - Goshen, IN CA Reynaldo N. Roque - El Segundo, Brian G. Zekoff - Mountain Brook, James P. Liffrig - Holdrege, NE Richard P. Schumeyer - Yardley, PA CA AL Donald L. Moore, Jr. - Greensboro, NC Kevin Trueblood - Bloomington, IL Michael B. Sothard - Cleveland, TN Steven J. Ramer - Warminster, PA Dennis M. Todd - Las Vegas, NV REINSTATED MEMBERS REINSTATED STUDENT MEMBERS Bill Bachmann - North Haven, CT Russ I. Vance - Cleveland, TN Christopher Connolly - Denver, CO Christopher M. Kelley - Dayton, OH Jeffrey R. Dahle - Reno, NV William E. Whitt - Central Point, OR Mark H. Kramer - Littleton, CO

JUNE 2008 15 are very pleased to have him with us. bilities that SBE t’s been a busy spring for ev- If you are interested in attending or has had since eryone. That and the slow you have someone that works with, for 1999. Those economy have perhaps contributed or over you, sign them up today. The duties have in- to a slow sign-up rate for this year’s SBE course fee is a very reasonable $580 cluded providing Leader Skills course to be held in India- which includes three days of outstanding a GDC for each napolis. Course I, Framework of People instruction, all materials and refreshment game, distrib- Skills, was schedule for June 3-5 but it breaks. Housing, meals and transporta- uting expense has been rescheduled for September 23- tion are not included. A special SBE guest reimbursements and gratuity payments to 25. We hope this will provide an oppor- rate of $115 plus tax has been arranged the GDCs (the NFL has always provided tunity for more people to sign up. at the host hotel, the Holiday Inn Select the funding), maintain a GDC e-mail list These courses are purposely kept Airport in Indianapolis. The hotel is and a team e-mail alias system used to small – no more than 18 participants to within walking distance of the airport submit coordination requests. The e-mail ensure that there is ample opportunity terminal and the hotel also provides responsibilities will transition to the NFL for everyone to participate fully and to a complimentary shuttle. Register for in time for the beginning of the 2008 keep it manageable. We do need at least Leader Skills, Course I by accessing the season. ten to hold it and as of early May, we registration form at the SBE website, Through the hard work and dedica- were short of that number. With the co- www.sbe.org. Print it out, complete it tion of the GDCs, the Society has benefit- operation of our instructors, Dick Cupka and mail or fax it to SBE. ed from its participation with increased and Rodney Vandeveer, the Holiday Inn Course II of Leader Skills, “Expand- exposure and standing. In the joint press Select Airport where the course is to be ing Your People Skills,” is still scheduled release, Jay Gerber, who serves as Man- held and those already signed up, we for August 5-7, 2008. Attendance at any ager of the NFL’s Frequency Coordination made the switch to September. Course I offering in the past is a prereq- Group, said he, “looks forward to the Dick will be teaching for the final time uisite for attending Course II. Registra- next phase of this immensely successful of his career. He retired about five years tion for Course II can be made using the and growing program. It is a program ago but kept SBE as his only active client same form as Course I. The Course Fee that works for everyone involved in game since then. But this is it, so if you always is $580 and the location is the same, the operations and for the broadcast com- wanted to take the course led by Dick, Holiday Inn Select Airport in Indianapo- munity and its audience.” this is your last opportunity. lis. President Thomas outlined the next More than 1,000 broadcast engineers phase of SBE’s expected involvement to since 1964 have been taught by Dick Changes to the GDC Program include referring qualified SBE members in the Leader Skills series; first under SBE President Barry Thomas and the to the NFL for future GDC vacancies and the auspices of the NAB and, for the NFL’s Jay Gerber made the joint an- providing training opportunities for those last 12 years, sponsored by SBE. Our nouncement in April that changes were in interested in providing event coordi- co-instructor, Rodney Vandeveer, is an the works for the Game Day Coordinators nation services. In the same release, Associate Professor of Organizational (GDC) program. SBE became involved Thomas said, “The SBE looks forward to Leadership and Supervision in the Col- beginning with the 1999 season and helping the NFL with the natural transi- lege of Technology at Purdue University, since that time the program has grown in tion in our successful alliance. We teaching in the same department that importance to the NFL and to broadcast- expect that our new educational efforts Dick was with for twenty years. He also ers. The many men and women who have will offer additional contributions and has a similar background to Dick, with served as GDCs, assistants and backups professional opportunities for broadcast 20 years of work in the manufacturing have done a wonderful job and we know engineers.” industry before going into education. they will continue to do so while those I echo Barry’s comments and look Rodney will be taking over the sole teach- changes take affect. forward to the next phase of SBE’s in- ing responsibilities of the SBE Leader By the beginning of the 2009 season, volvement. Skills Courses beginning in 2009 and we the NFL will bring in-house the responsi-

16 the SIGNAL he 2008 SBE National Meeting ship Meeting. Clinic. will be held in Madison, Wisco- The highlight event will be the SBE Registration for the three-day event nsin on October 14-15, 2008. It Annual Awards Reception and Dinner. At will be through the Wisconsin Broadcast- will be held in conjunction with the Mid- this event we will recognize the winners ers Association. Visit their website, www. west Broadcasters Clinic, hosted by SBE of the SBE National Awards including the wi-broadcasters.org to register. The fee Chapter 24 and the Wisconsin Broadcast- SBE Broadcast Engineer of the Year and structure includes a two or three day at- ers Association. The location will be the Educator of the Year. We’ll also induct tendance option. newly refurbished Marriot Madison West the newest SBE Fellows who have been in Middleton (Madison). elevated to that rank of membership 2008 SBE National The SBE National Meeting serves as an since our last National Meeting. Chapter Meeting Schedule* opportunity to spotlight SBE-sponsored Award winners will also be recognized Monday, October 13 regional conventions held in different including those for best website, best Pre-National Meeting Event - SBE Nation- areas of the country. This will be the newsletter and best regional conven- al Webcast - 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm EDT third time the SBE National Meeting has tion. A special guest speaker will also be been held with the Broadcasters Clinic featured. Tuesday, October 14 in Madison since the National Meeting Other meetings and events that will Certification Committee Meeting – after- concept began in 1997. It was previously take place include the annual Fellows noon held there in 1999 and 2003. Breakfast, Certification Committee meet- Board of Directors Meeting - 6:00 pm to The SBE National Meeting includes the ing and the fall Board of Directors. 10:00 pm Annual SBE Membership Meeting, which Just prior to the SBE National Meet- includes the induction of newly elected ing, the Society will produce a national Wednesday, October 15 officers and directors of the Board, status Webcast, similar to the one held last Fellows Breakfast - 8:00 am to 9:00 am reports and updates from some of our year from Pittsburgh, Pa. The program is Annual Membership Meeting - 4:00 pm national committees. The winning chap- planned for Monday, October 13 at 8:00 to 5:00 pm ters of the annual membership drive are pm EDT and will involve a number of SBE National Awards Reception - 5:00 pm to also recognized at the Annual Member- Board members and other leadership. 6:00 pm A portion of the program will be dedi- National Awards Dinner - 6:00 pm to cated to taking questions from members. 8:15 pm Individual members as well as chapters are encouraged to “tune-in” for this 2008 Midwest Broadcasters special meeting. Chapters may want to Clinic Schedule* make this their chapter program for the Tuesday, October 14 month of October and hold it at a station Radio oriented technical papers conference room or other facility that Lunch with speaker has Internet access. Details about how to Exhibit hours in evening They use your products and services access the program will be provided later Beer & Bull Session and make or influence purchasing this summer. decisions. If you’re not already The Broadcasters Clinic is a three-day Wednesday, October 15 hearing from them, perhaps it’s educational event that has been held for Technical papers of general interest time you put your message where more than 60 years. The event includes Exhibit hours mid-day with box lunch our members will see it! Contact many technical papers presented by Holly Essex at [email protected] or experts from across the country. A Thursday, October 16 call 317-846-9000 and be in the broadcast equipment and services trade TV oriented technical papers next issue of the Signal. show is held over the first two days of the * Schedule subject to change

JUNE 2008 17 t is not too late to attend the valuable lenged me to act,” explained Rich Parker, held on September 23-25, instead of June Leader-Skills seminar. The seminar an attendee from 2006. 3-5. The course still takes places at the dates have moved from June 3-5 to The series can also be viewed as a Holiday Inn Select in Indianapolis. September 23-25. Do not hesitate to tool for personal growth and develop- It covers the function and nature sign up because spots are still available! ment, even for those without prior man- of your leadership role; how to build Register for the seminar now and make agement or supervisory responsibilities. stronger teams and effective internal your company better and become a bet- “The session ‘Dealing with Differences’ cooperativeness; the complex differences ter leader. gave me a better look into myself to see of people; and discovery of your natu- The seminar is created specifically what I need to improve my people and ral style of leading and how to nurture for broadcast engineers. “My leadership productive skills and how to read people a developed style to help you adjust to skills improved and now our department affectively,” past attendee David Sturgeon different people in differing situations. will excel,” said Michael Linz, who at- said. “It was one of my “[Because I attended] I will be a better tended both Leader-Skills Courses in June best experiences ever.” manager and leader with greater insight,” and August of 2007. SBE offers the two-part series in explained Parker. “Every aspect was cooperation with instructors Richard Course II, “Leadership – Expand- beneficial and D. Cupka and Rodney Vandeveer. “Dick ing Your People Skills” picks up where relevant,” he said. Linz was one Cupka is one of the most influential peo- Course I leaves off and will be offered of 10 who attended the Leader-Skills ple I have ever in my life had the pleasure from August 5-7 (Dates subject to Seminars in Indianapolis. to learn from. Rodney Vandeveer is also change). Each course is limited to a min- The Leader-Skills Series is in its 12th most excellent,” said Linz. “I have imum of 10 and a maximum of 18 par- consecutive year with SBE. It is specifi- never been so moved by ticipants, so register now. “I wish cally designed for broadcast engineers a speaker and educator I’d done this years ago, who have or aspire to have management in my life.” but I’m glad I finally did responsibilities. “The leader- Known for his unique style of teach- it,” said Parker. ship training here is ing, Cupka has directed and taught the The cost of the registration for Course spectacular,” said Jim Skinner, Leader-Skills seminars to broadcast I is $580, which includes three days who attended Course I last year. engineering managers, supervisors and of instruction, all course materials, a Many of the most respected broadcast technicians for over 40 years. “Dick certificate of completion and classroom engineering managers in the country Cupka has been one of refreshments. All transportation, housing today are graduates of the program the most effective peo- and meals are the responsibility of the and continue to send members of their ple in my life. I learned participant. However, a single or double staffs to the seminars. “This is more than I ever ex- room can be reserved through SBE at what I needed, and now pected. This program is the Holiday Inn Select Airport, where the my team will be on the superb,” said Sturgeon. course will be held, at a rate of $115 per front lines,” said Benjamin Hig- This summer is Cupka’s last year night. ley, who also attended Course I last June. instructing the Leader-Skills Seminars If you would like more information The Leader-Skills Seminars are before he fully retires, then Vandveveer on the SBE Leader-Skills Series, please designed to take technically proficient will continue on instructing the series contact Holly Essex at (317) 846-9000 people and instill in them sound supervi- in future years. Do not miss Cupka’s last or [email protected]. sory and management skills. “The seminar! series opened my eyes to a whole new This year, Course I, “Leadership – The way of looking at leadership and chal- Framework of People Skills” will now be 18 the SIGNAL 2008 Leader-Skills Registration COURSE INFORMATION: Each course includes three days (24 hours) of programming, all seminar materials, completion certificate and classroom refreshments. Class size is limited to a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 18 participants per course.

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JUNE 2008 19 consin Broadcasters Association, serv- FELLOW from page 1 ing on its Broadcasters Clinic Program during the SBE National Awards Dinner Committee. He also is playing a key role program, which coincidently, will be held in the WBA’s efforts this year in Wisconsin Doug Garlinger, CPBE 8-VSB in Charles’ home town of Madison this to educate the public about the transition CBNT, is now Senior Broadcast Engi- year. to digital television through a series of neer for Qualcomm – MediaFLO USA Charles is Director of Engineering workshops around the state. Engineers, and has relocated to the Indianapolis, for Television Wisconsin in Madison and instructed by Charles, provided the Indiana area. He was formerly RF Engi- has been a member of SBE for 25 years, technical support for these workshops neering Manager for the NBC Universal having joined in 1983. He has been very and provided both the analog and digital Stations, KNBC-TV, KVEA-TV and KWHY- active in leadership roles for Chapter signal for the “Show and Tell” presenta- TV located on Mt Wilson overlooking 24 in Madison having served as chapter tion as well as provided converter box Los Angeles. chair and vice chair. demonstrations. He served on the national SBE Board Charles has been on the Wisconsin Richard Harvey, joined Fujitsu’s of Directors for four years during the EAS Committee since its inception and Video Solutions Group in New Jersey as mid-1990’s and, while on the Board, involved in the Emergency Broadcast their Technical Sales Engineer. He was wrote the SBE EAS Primer, a publication System before that time. He developed previously Director of Sales for XVD that helped hundreds of local engineers and continues to administer the Wiscon- Corporation. around the country implement the sin State EAS website, as part of the SBE If you or someone you know moved, Emergency Alert System when it was first Chapter 24 website, which he also main- changed positions, or been honored implemented. He served as the Society’s tains. Charles was involved in the launch in some way in the broadcast engi- first EAS Committee Chairman and, with of the Media Security and Reliability neering industry, submit details to his committee, worked hard to promote ? Council (MSRC) in the Madison market. Member on the Move at hessex@sbe. an understanding and effective and He is also a member of the Wisconsin org or to Attn Holly Essex, 9102 North proper use of the EAS system. Amber Alert Committee and was one of Meridian St., Suite 150, Indianapolis, While the national EAS policy was be- the founders of that program in 2003. IN 46260 ing written, Leonard wrote many articles Leonard Charles is truly deserving of for national trade publications that pro- this recognition. As one of his nomina- vided a resource for broadcasters as they tors wrote, “Chuck is a consummate attempted to understand and roll out the broadcast professional and friend, well EAS system. He was named the Society’s deserving of this prestigious honor.” The Broadcast Engineer of the Year in 1995. Society extends its sincere congratula- Charles is active in the Maximum tions to Leonard “Chuck” Charles, CPBE, Service Television (MSTV) organization on being named a Fellow of the Society. and serves on its Technical Committee. He has also been very active with the Wis- A: D, None of the above. Class C networks can use subnets. If you wanted two subnets, the subnet mask would be 255.255.255.128. Each Dates Location Application Deadline subnet would have a June 6-16, 2008 Local Chapters CLOSED subnet ID address and a August 8-18, 2008 Local Chapters June 6, 2008 November 7-17, 2008 Local Chapters September 19, 2008 broadcast address, leaving 126 addresses available **Chapter 78 will be giving exams during the Virginia Regional, July 17, 2008. for each host. Please have your application into the National Office by June 26, 2008 ANSWER from page 2 20 the SIGNAL thanks to the following supporters for their scholarship funds contributions: July 17, 2008 Broadcast Trade Show Roanoke Civic Center convention center, Roa- noke, VA. Hosted by The Blue Ridge Chapter - SBE Chapter 78 and the Broadcast General Store.

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Tobias Poole Operating Director WRTI FM-HD, Temple University Philadelphia, PA SBE Chapter 18, Joined SBE in 1982 as a student

Getting Started: When I was a 14 year old kid, I would tinker with electricity and install light switches in my mothers house. I became fascinated with radio through the school’s radio/tv vocational training.

Sphere of Influence: Professor Archie Grear at Ohio University. He was a professor in the telecommunications department. He gave great advice about succeeding as a broadcaster and getting into the industry to pursue a career.

Best Known for: GDC: Game Day Coordinator for NFL. Seven years ago I got involved with coordinating frequency clearance requests for the NFL Eagles through the SBE.

Focal Point: I enjoy the opportunity to stay current on FCC rules and regulations and trends in the industry as well as valuing the engineering aspects that the SBE provides. I value the fact that SBE is involved with educational and training aspects and opportunities they provide for their members. 3) Digging deeper, choose three or more of the follow- ing to answer:

Getting Started/What got you interested in broadcast engineering? Radio. When I was a 14 year old kid, I would tinker with electricity and install light switches Certified Broadcast Name: ______Techologist® (CBT®) in my mothers house. I became fascinated with radio Qty: _____ through the school’s radio/tv vocational training. Address: ______Certified Broadcast Networking Technologist® (CBNT®) Sphere of Influence: Professor Archie Grear at Ohio Qty: _____ City: ______State: _____ Zip: ______University. He was a professor in the telecommunica- Certified Radio Operator® tions department. He gave great advice about succeed- (CRO®) Daytime Phone: ______Qty: _____ ing as a broadcaster and getting into the industry to SBE Membership pin pursue a career. Qty: ____ Certified Audio Engineer® Membership #: ______Certification #: ______(CEA®) Qty: _____ Job satisfaction/What do you like best about your job:

Please send me ____ pin(s) for only $12 each $ ______Certified Broadcast Everyday is not the same. It’s always challenging. I Radio Engineer® (CBRE®) get to teach and I get to still tinker and fix things, trou- Certified Professional Shipping & Handling $1 each ($3 minimum charge) $ ______Qty: _____ Broadcast Engineer® (CPBE®) bleshoot things. I’m involved with the latest or current Qty: ____ industry changes/involvement. Radio is challenging. TOTAL $ ______Certified Senior Broadcast Radio Engineer® (CSRE®) Payment: q Check q Visa q MasterCard q American Express Qty: _____ When I’m not working I… When I’m not working I’m

Certified Television a sound engineer on the side with a sound reinforce- Credit Card #: ______Exp. Date: ______^Sec Code: _____ Operator® (CTO®) ment company. And I also like to swim, landscape, I Qty: _____ love to go to musical shows. Name on Card (Print and signature) ______Certified Video Engineer® ® (CEV ) You may not know: I have a lovely wife, three daugh- Billing Address (if different) ______Qty: _____ ^ 3 digits in signature strip on back of card to the right of the (partial) card number (for Amex, it is 4 non-raised digits on the front). ters. I graduated from Ohio University Bachelor of Certified Broadcast Order online: www.sbe.org/store_merchandise.php Television Engineer® (CBTE®) Science in Telecommunications and an Associates in Qty: _____ Mail to: SBE l 9102 North Meridian Street, Suite 150 l applied science with radio/tv technology. Throughout Indianapolis, IN 46260 Certified Senior Broadcast my travels I was a thesbian, I was in a play in Dun Fax to: (317) 846-9120 Television Engineer® (CSTE®) Luiche (sp??), Ireland representing the United States. Qty: _____ Pins not to scale Favorite Gadget: My cellphone … my pocket PC. JUNE 2008 23

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