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SBE Chapter 124
PO Box 1727
Portland, OR 97207-1727
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"Water Cooled Newsletter" SBE Chapter 124, Portland, OR
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| WHEN: | Tuesday October 9th, Noon |
| WHERE: | Buffalo Gap Saloon &
Eatery 6835 SW Macadam (at California) Portland 503-244-7111 |
| WHAT: | Sandy Berenics of Wheatstone on their lines of audio consoles, audio routers, audio processing, and radio studio furniture. See http://www.wheatstone.com/ . |
The Portland meetings are on the second Tuesday of every month. Everyone is welcome to attend the meetings. When you get to the Buffalo Gap, go in the SW California St. side door, turn left, and go upstairs. We have the whole upper floor. For more information on Chapter 124 in Portland/Vancouver/Salem, contact Chapter Chair Ev Helm, e-mail chairman at sbe124 dot org, or call him at 503-977-7752. For a map see http://www.sbe124.org/SBE124_maps.html .
(There was no meeting in Medford) Larry Bloomfield's Taste of NAB Road Show came to town. Thanks to OPB for hosting the event. See highlights including door prize winners at http://www.tech-notes.tv/2007/53-Portland.htm
(Telos) Axia Audio on their all-IP studio system. See http://www.axiaaudio.com/ . Presented by Broadcasters General Store, see http://www.bgsfl.com/ .
by Kent Randles K7YXZ CBRE
Senior Engineer, Entercom-Portland
Co-Chair, Portland/Vancouver LAECC
Chapter Secretary/Newsletter Editor
secretary at sbe124 dot org
Holding at 12 FM HD signals (nine with HD2, and one with HD3) and three AM HD signals on the air in the Portland market. For a complete list, see http://www.ibiquity.com/stationlist_hdradio.php?theState=OR&sortBy=StnMarket&theCity=PortlandOR#stationlist .
Randy Pugsley, Director of Engineering for Churchill Media, reports they are closer to turning on the HD of 1040 KXPD Tigard. They are having to replace several parts in the ATU/filter to get rid of a "knot" in the Smith Chart plot, and get some more bandwidth.
Not much of an IBOC-alypse when AM stations were allowed to have their HD on at night on September 14th. Some had it on at midnight, most waited until that night, and a few weren't on until Monday morning or evening.
Citadel, now owners of the ABC radio stations, decided to stop doing HD at night on ten of their AM stations, partly because of interference concerns. Most of the ten run 50 kW at night.
810 KGO San Francisco is probably one of them. They have a great signal up the coast, and some Portland-area listeners heard at least some noise at the fringes of 800 KPDQ's coverage The station is only 500 Watts at night. I could hear the noise on 820 where there aren't many signals to hear.
Other big non-Citadel signals that at least flash the HD light in Portland include 1070 KNX Los Angeles, 1160 KSL Salt Lake City, and 1530 KFBK Sacramento. All have adjacent-channel stations in the Portland Market. I'm very curious to see how they all do outside of Portland on my HD Radio in the car.
On the FM HD front, there have been a couple big announcements. Several big radio groups besides Clear Channel, including Entercom, have announced that they will enable their stations to participate in iTunes Tagging.
An even bigger announcement came from Ford, which said that HD Radios are now available as a dealer-installed option on their 2008 Fords, Lincolns and Mercuries. The option can also be installed on many of their 2005, 2006, and 2007 models. This is a huge breakthrough for Ibiquity.
(From Eric Youngberg)
It is with a degree of sadness that I send this email to let you know that my broadcast days are nearing an end. My FIVE! years has been a nice run. Truly, working with you as broadcast professionals that facilitate so much media has been a privilege. My conversations with many of you helped make each and every one of my days on the broadcast desk fly by.
Our management team here in Seattle needs my services to be directed in another vein. I will be learning out of region (i.e.: the other 36 states) systems and services. Thus I have been spending the last two weeks training the three new members of the Seattle Qwest Broadcast Team.
Our training has and is progressing quickly and your new Qwest Broadcast representatives will be in charge starting today Wednesday, 9-26-07.
Here they are:
Sophida Matias (Hours 7am-3pm)
Sophida.Matias at Qwest dot com
206 808-0821 Office
Main Contact for AZ, NM, UT, WY, MT, Southern ID
Janet Hunter
Janet.Hunter at Qwest dot com
206 808-0827 Office (Hours 9am-5pm)
Main Contact for WA, OR Northern ID
Susan Reynolds will actively support your needs, working either directly with
you or with Sophida and Janet.
Susan.Reynolds at Qwest dot com
206 808-0836 Office (Hours 7:15am-3:45pm)
ALL States
Our 800 608-7512 number of course remains the same as always.
I trust you will be pleased with the new Qwest Broadcast representatives.
I will avail myself as I am able to answer broadcast questions for them as
needed.
I know that in the future our paths will continue to cross as we are able.
All the best to each of you!
by Chris "Ichabod" Murray
Co-Chair, Oregon EAS (SECC)
Director of Engineering
McKenzie River Broadcasting, Eugene
ichabod at kknu dot fm
(See http://www.broadcast.net/mailman/listinfo/eas-or)
More from Chris next month.
by Everett E. Helm W7EEH CPBE
Director of RF Engineering
Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland
>1 GHz Frequency Coordinator, Oregon and SW WA
Chapter Chair
chairman at sbe124 dot org
Ev's column returns next month.
by Michael D. Brown N7AXC CSRE
Brown Broadcast Services, Inc., Portland
mike at brownbroadcast dot com
Mike's company is feverishly preparing for the FCC's non-commercial FM application window. He sent a picture of his crew to me, and then added two more folks after that! See the higher rez PDF.
From Jack Roland KEØVH
The net meets on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month at 10 AM Pacific Time. Locally in Denver on the WA2YZT repeater, on 146.805 and 447.175 with a pl of 186.2. AND, through the Internet Radio Linking Project on the Denver Reflector Node #9615.
To find a node in your area you can go to the www.irlp.net website, click on the "Node Info" on the left, then click on the "List of nodes and frequencies" in the middle of the page. In a moment a full list of node numbers, cities, countries and the like will appear and do a page search for you city. When the node is highlighted click on the node number and that repeater information will appear, usually with contact information of the trustee/repeater owner. When you have done this and are able to access your node (usually at 4 digit code on the local repeater unless it is a closed club system), you will want to connect to the Denver Reflector Node #9615. . See also www.wa2yzt.com
If you need further help contact me at KEØVH at qsl dot net .
[The participating Portland node is 3420, N7PIR at 440.450 with a PL of 103.5 Hz, located on the Stonehenge Tower. Our own Mike Steiner KD6LVP is the trustee. See http://www.qsl.net/n7pir .]
For southwestern Washington and ALL of Oregon: >1 GHz call Everett "Ed" Helm W7EEH at 503-977-7752, fax 503 293-4877, or e-mail microwave at sbe124.org; <1 GHz call Mike Steiner KD6LVP at 503-235-8517, fax 503-231-4624, or e-mail under1gig at sbe124.org.
You can browse the database at http://www.sbe124.org/part_74/.
If you are not IN the database, you are NOT coordinated.
At noon on the second Tuesday of every month, broadcast engineers in Portland meet at The Buffalo Gap Saloon & Eatery, 6835 SW Macadam (at SW California), 503-244-7111. After their lot fills up, you'll be searching the narrow streets for blocks around for a space, so get there early. For more information see http://www.thebuffalogap.com . For directions, go to http://www.sbe124.org/SBE124_maps.html. For chapter information call Everett "Ed" Helm at 503-977-7752, or e-mail chairman at sbe124 dot org. As usual, everyone, member or not, is welcome to attend.