Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter 24 Newsletter Madison, Wisconsin June 2013

WBA-SBE Summer Scholarships Available Next Meeting for Technical Engineering Workshop is Broadcast Field Thursday, June 13 Wednesday, June 19 The Ennes Educational Annual This year’s Engineering Workshop Foundation Trust, the non-profit will be held June 19th in conjunction and charitable arm of the SBE, CHAPTER 24 with the WBA Summer Conference at provides scholarships to deserving the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, WI. candidates who aspire to a career in the PICNIC & While Managers golf, Engineers will be technical aspects of broadcasting. “Reel” Music in session having just as much fun. The Applications for all of this year’s Ennes day starts at 8:45am and ends at 4:30pm Scholarships must be submitted by July 1. The chapter will supply burgers and followed by the Exhibit Reception, brats, condiments, buns, plates, cups and Dinner, and the infamous S’mores Free Webinar on IP Microwave STLs utensils. The grill will campfire by the lake, all covered by your Broadcasters have needed and be started at 5:00PM. low-cost, single-day registration. Bring a dish to pass, asked the FCC for more channels and an alternate entrée This one-day Workshop always bandwidth for many years. With the if desired and your includes lively audience discussions of growth of HD audio and video, the need preferred beverage timely subjects. See (http://www.wi- for reliable STLs continues to grow (we have an alcohol broadcasters.org/wba/index.php/events/ every year. To help broadcast engineers permit). summer-conference/engineering-day/) and others interested in this subject, the SBE is presenting IP Microwave STLs Please sign up on the chapter web site for agenda information. Registration on Thursday, June 27 from 1:00–2:00 http://www.sbe24.org Begins at 7:00am. See flyer on page 6. pm CDT. The webinar is free to SBE There is a playground for the kids. members, thanks to sponsorship by SBE We have an amplified music permit for the Sustaining Member, DoubleRadius. evening’s music provided by WBA Offers Media Trailing Edge Entertainment. Technnology Institute Registration Deadline Nears for SBE This year’s theme is “REEL MUSIC”, so Leadership Development Course bring your favorite ¼” open reel tapes, Media Technology Institute (MTI) ½ track or ¼ track. Dig out those old air focus is practical, instructional courses Taking leadership and management checks and demo tapes! Come for the for prospective, beginning, and current training specifically designed for food and company; stay for the relaxing atmosphere! broadcast/media engineers. MTI, broadcast engineers and other technical held June 17-20 in Elkhart Lake personnel in the media field may be one Come for the food and company, at Osthoff Resort, will consist of 3 of the most important steps you can take stay for the relaxing atmosphere! days of instructional content, 1 day to advance your career. This year’s SBE Leadership Development Course will 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM of technical seminars/equipment Badger Prairie Park, Shelter #1 exhibition as part of the WBA be held August 13-15 at the Hyatt Place Verona, Wisconsin Summer Engineering Conference. Atlanta Airport South in Atlanta, Ga. The registration deadline is July 10. No Park Admission is required. Underwriting for MTI is provided by A map can be found on page 4. the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and Midwest Communications. Coming Up There will be a brief business meeting See http://www.wi-broadcasters. about 7:00PM to introduce org/wba/index.php/events/ our newly elected officers. Tues., July 16 Dante Ethernet Audio summer-conference/wba- Wed., Aug. 14 TBD Visitors & guests are welcome media-technology-institute/ Thur., Sep. 19 TBD & Boadcasters at all SBE Chapter 24 events! See flyer on page 7. Clinic Preparation Page 2 SBE Chapter 24 Newsletter June 2013 Chapter Contacts Meeting Minutes Chair Kevin Trueblood Wisconsin Public Radio from the May 2013 Business Meeting 608-345-3248 [email protected] The Chapter 24 society of Broadcast Engineers May 2013 meeting was called to order at 7:01 pm by Chairman Bill Hamilton in the studio of WMTV. Vice Chair Following introductions the results of the annual election were announced: Kevin Ruppert, WISC-TV Chairman – Kevin Trueblood W: 608-271-4321 Vice-Chairman – Kevin Ruppert [email protected] Secretary – Marshall Deets Secretary Treasurer – Matthew Glissendorf Pete Deets, WMTV The gavel was handed over to new Chairman Kevin Trueblood. A motion was made W: 608-274-1515 & seconded to accept the Secretary’s report of minutes. [email protected] News Letter Editor Paul Stoffel reported items for the newsletter are due by June 3. For the Sustaining Membership report, Fred Sperry noted the recent renewal Treasurer “Sound Devices” and we are at 21 sustaining members. Matthew Glissendorf, AT&T Program Chair Steve Paugh reported our annual summer picnic will be Thursday 608-252-7815 June13th and the following meeting will be July 16th at Full Compass Systems. [email protected] There was no Certification report and Frequency Coordination Chair Tom Smith Past Chair reported all quiet for now. Bill Hamilton, Wisconsin Eye The National report from Leonard Charles included announcement of the availability W: 608-316-6850 Ext. 305 of the Ennes Foundation Trust Scholarships, a webinar free to SBE members on IP [email protected] microwave STL’s and a reminder that the deadline is nearing to register for this year’s SBE Leadership Development Course. Further details are available at SBE.org. There was no old or new business to report. Committee Appointees Professional announcements included Mike Kulis reporting his coming retirement from WISC, Tom Weeden reporting a strategic partnership between Gray Broadcasting Program Committee Steve Paugh 277-5139 and Syncbak for mobile broadband delivery of content within specific geographic [email protected] areas, Paul Stoffel’s son has graduated from UWM and has been hired by WTMJ in Volunteer for the Milwaukee and Leonard Charles urged members to be on the lookout for the publication program committee! of FCC rules concerning TV Broadcasters upcoming requirements to carry an audio version of emergency crawls on their Separate Audio Program service. The meeting was adjourned at 7:27pm and a program of Spring NAB happenings Membership / Newsletter Editor was reported by Kevin Ruppert, Jim Klas, Kevin Trueblood, Leonard Charles, Al Paul Stoffel Barcheski and James Daniels, Ikegami. [email protected] Respectfully submitted, M.L. Deets, Secy. Sustaining Membership Fred Sperry 608-264-9806 [email protected]

Frequency Coordination Tom Smith 608-837-2729 [email protected]

Webmaster Leonard Charles W: 608-271-4321 F: 608-271-1709 [email protected] 7847 Big Sky Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53719 (608) 833-0047 • FAX (608) 833-5055 Page 3 SBE Chapter 24 Newsletter June 2013

it anticipates some 14,300 Amateur Radio vanity call sign “payment units,” or applications, during the next fiscal Amateur Radio News year, collecting $217,360 in fees from the program. compiled by Tom Weeden, WJ9H The vanity call sign regulatory fee is payable not only when applying for a new ● After an EF5 swept through men was found a half-mile away. vanity call sign, but also upon renewing Oklahoma on May 20, radio amateurs in National Geographic Society Vice a vanity call sign. Those holding vanity that state assisted the American Red Cross President for Research, Conservation call signs issued prior to 1993 are exempt with its communications efforts. “Amateur and Exploration John Francis told The from having to pay the vanity call sign Radio operators were asked to support Washington Post that he fears that regulatory fee at renewal, as Congress did voice communications from the American there are too many people jamming the not authorize the FCC to collect regulatory Red Cross Oklahoma City Chapter roadways in pursuit of twisters and that fees until 1996. Such “heritage” vanity Headquarters to their feeding station at this might have contributed to Friday’s call sign holders do not appear as vanity the Incident Command Post located in fatalities. In a May 2013 online interview licensees in the FCC Amateur Moore,” explained American Radio Relay with National Geographic, Samaras told Radio database. League Oklahoma Section Emergency of the increase in the number of storm Coordinator Mark Conklin, N7XYO. chasers in recent years. “There’s lots (Excerpts from the American Moore, located about halfway between and lots of storm chasers out there, but Radio Relay League’s web site) the brunt of the tornado damage. As of number of people who go out into the 8:30 CDT on May 22, all Amateur Radio field and collect data from tornadoes,” he operations in support of the American Red said. “We run into [storm chasers] all the Cross ceased. time. On a big tornado day in Oklahoma, At least 24 people, including nine you can have hundreds of storm chasers lined up down the road. Oklahoma is WISC-TV children, were killed when the 1.3-mile CBS wide tornado moved through Moore, considered the Mecca of . Oklahoma’s seventh largest city. The We know ahead of time when we chase National Weather Service stated that the in Oklahoma, there’s going to be a traffic tornado traveled an estimated 17-mile-long jam.” path for 50 minutes, with an estimated The Samarases and Young were peak that ranged from 200-210 miles with TWISTEX (Tactical Weather MADISON per hour, making it an EF5 storm, the most Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Shane Collins powerful category of tornadoes possible. EXperiment), a scientific field research Clark Wire & Cable Sales Unit A In addition to the American Red Cross, program founded by to 408 Washington Blvd Mundelein, IL 60060-4401 members of the Salvation Army Team “better understand tornadogenesis, (800) CABLE-IT (847) 949-9944 Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) maintenance and decay processes and to Fax: (847) 949-9595 e-mail: [email protected] were also in Moore, ready to support and gain insight and knowledge of the seldom www.clarkwire.com assist with the Amateur Radio response. sampled near-surface internal tornado According to ARRL Oklahoma Section environment.”

Manager Kevin O’Dell, N0IRW, the tornadoes disrupted cellular service in the ● The FCC released a Notice of Antenna System Specialist affected areas. Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on May 23, seeking to raise the fee for Amateur TV Troubleshooting ● Less than two weeks later, on May 31, Radio vanity call signs by 20 cents. FM Sweep Testing more tornadoes struck central Oklahoma. Currently, a vanity call sign costs $15 AM Infrared Testing and is good for 10 years; the new fee, Professional storm chasers Tim Samaras, www.ResonantResults.com (Amateur Radio Operator WJ0G), his if approved, will go up to $15.20 for Richard Wood (608)839-3950 son Paul Samaras and fellow investigator 10 years. The FCC is authorized by the Carl Young were killed on May 31 near Communications Act of 1934, as amended El Reno, Oklahoma when an EF3 tornado to collect vanity call sign fees to recover suddenly changed paths and slammed into the costs associated with that program. their vehicle; they were unable to escape. The vanity call sign fee has fluctuated According to ABC News, Tim Samaras over the 15 years of the current program was found dead in his car, still in his seat -- from a low of $11.70 in 2007 to a high belt; Paul Samaras and Young were pulled of $70 (as first proposed in the FCC’s from the car by the tornado; one of the 1994 Report and Order). The FCC said Page 4 SBE Chapter 24 Newsletter June 2013 Annual CHAPTER 24 PICNIC Location

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CHAPTER 24 SUSTAINING MEMBERS

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