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Thank you for visiting the Washington DC Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. We're glad you're here!
The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) is the only organization devoted to the advancement of all levels and types of broadcast engineering. With more than 5,000 members and 114 local chapters, the SBE provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and the sharing of information to help you keep pace with our rapidly changing industry. The SBE amplifies the voices of broadcast engineers by validating your skills with professional certification, by offering educational opportunities to maintain and expand those skills, and by speaking out on technical regulatory issues that affect how you work.
SBE Chapter 37 is a very diverse group, including a variety of media professionals in the Nation's Capitol. Our members include local radio and television engineers, national and international network technicians, consulting engineers, electronics manufacturers and Federal employees working in media and broadcast related positions.
Regardless of your area of broadcast interest, you are sure to find a warm welcome at the Washington DC Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. Please join us at our next meeting and try us out for size. We hope you will enjoy your visit.
Upcoming Events
Please check out details of our next meeting. We hope to see you there! Future events of interest include:
May 26 2022 - NAB Update with Mark Schubin
SMPTE Washington DC Section will host Multiple Emmy-winning, SMPTE Life Fellow, Mark Schubin for his NAB Update. Mark has attended every NAB show since 1973 and has been reporting on them for decades. We're not sure of what he'll find this year, but he promises surprises about AI, ATSC 3.0, the cloud, virtual cameras, and more. A complete camera system, including optics, the size of a grain of sand? Attend and see! This session is open to all members and non-members of SMPTE. Please forward to any of your colleagues and students you think may be interested.
Register here: https://lnkd.in/gAbfHF4p
Date & Time: May 26th, 2022 7:00 PM EDT
June 14 2022 - Alternative Broadcast Inspection Program
SBE Chapter 37 guest speaker Tom Ray will host a discussion on the Alternative Broadcast Inspection Program - what is it, why it's a good idea, what stations typically miss, and what we look for. For details and a registration link, please see our next meeting page.
Date & Time: June 14th, 2022 6:30 PM EDT
SBE News and Events
Each year, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the association for broadcast and multimedia technology professionals, conducts a member recruitment drive. The drive calls on current SBE members to encourage their non-member colleagues to join the association. This year, 68 individual members were recruited.
The SBE Membership Drive ran from March 1 until May 31. As a recruiting incentive to members, the SBE asks for prize donations from SBE sustaining member companies. In addition, the recruiter will earn $5 per new member (up to $25) off his or her 2023 membership dues. 11 sustaining member companies plus the SBE provided prizes this year, ranging from shirts and hats to broadcast equipment. The SBE donated logo items, a copy of CertPreview, and a free Webinars by SBE registration. The theme for the 2022 drive was Expand Your Network.
All the recruiters were eligible for the Membership Drive Grand Prize: A trip the SBE National Meeting this fall. (A cash prize option is available if the winner is not able to travel to the SBE National Meeting.) That meeting will be held during the 2022 SBE 22 Broadcast & Technology Expo in Liverpool, NY. The Grand Prize winner this year is Jack Conway of Cox Media Group, Owasso, OK.
The SBE thanks the sustaining members who provided prizes: Blackmagic Design, Broadcasters General Store, Davicom, Heartland Video Systems, latakoo, LBA, Orban, Shively Labs, Sutro Tower, Telos Alliance, and Tieline. The list of prizes and the winning recruiters will be published in the August 2022 issue of The Signal, the SBE’s bi-monthly newsletter, and on the SBE website.
The close of the drive resulted in 68 new recruited individual members, who were sponsored by 61 current members. The recruiters represent 32 different SBE chapters.
Prize Donor | Prize | Winner | Location | Chapter |
SBE | trip to the SBE National Meeting | John Conway | Owasso, OK | 56 |
Blackmagic Design | ATEM Mini Extreme ISO | Stephen Brown | Appleton, WI | 80 |
Broadcasters General Store | BGS tumbler and $20 Starbucks gift card | Maria Laing-Smith | Camarillo, CA | 47 |
Broadcasters General Store | BGS tumbler and $20 Starbucks gift card | Danny Shoen | Lexington, KY | 35 |
Broadcasters General Store | BGS tumbler and $20 Starbucks gift card | Vince Forcier | Falls Church, VA | 37 |
Broadcasters General Store | BGS tumbler and $20 Starbucks gift card | Craig Seelig | Honesdale, PA | 2 |
Broadcasters General Store | BGS tumbler and $20 Starbucks gift card | William Armstrong | Hollywood, FL | 53 |
Broadcasters General Store | BGS tumbler and $20 Starbucks gift card | John Collinson | New Port Richey, FL | 39 |
Davicom | $50 Amazon gift card | William Harland | Chandler, IN | 121 |
Heartland Video Systems | $100 Amazon gift card | Charles Kinney | Atlanta, GA | 5 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems backpack | Aaron Hume | Shoreline, WA | 16 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems coffee mug, Heartland Video Systems mouse pad | Julio Bonet | Miami Lakes, FL | 53 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems drinking glass, blue | Thomas Ray | New Windsor, NY | 15 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems drinking glass, clear | Robert Kelley | Tamuning, GU | 126 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems knit cap, Heartland Video Systems bound notebook | Jonathan Iler | Savannah, GA | 5 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems swag pack | Aaron Carter | Bangor, ME | 11 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems swag pack | Bruce Hart | Louisville, OH | 70 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems tote bag, Heartland Video Systems mouse pad | Blake Thompson | Akron, OH | 70 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems/Ericsson throw | Josh Bohn | Pelham, AL | 68 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems/Thomson t-shirt | Pierre Lonewolf | Kotzebue, AK | 89 |
Heartland Video Systems | Heartland Video Systems/Thomson t-shirt | James Leifer | Port Saint Lucie, FL | 11 |
Heartland Video Systems | Rocketbook smart notebook | Christopher Tarr | Mukwonago, WI | 28 |
Heartland Video Systems | USB wireless charger base, Heartland Video Systems lens cloth, Heartland Video Systems mouse pad | Arthur Clardy | Lafayette, LA | 72 |
Latakoo | Bose QuietComfort headphones | Jeffrey Juniet | Casselberry, FL | 42 |
LBA | $250 in LBA online safety courses | Chuck Kelly | Noblesville, IN | 25 |
Orban | 1101e card and breakout cable | Bradley Rakestraw | New Albany, MS | 68 |
Shively Labs | $100 L.L. Bean gift card | SeVern Ashes | Vermillion, SD | 74 |
Sutro Tower | Sutro Tower swag pack | Lee Deprey | Cary, IL | 80 |
Sutro Tower | Sutro Tower swag pack | Gery Jezbera | Wilcox, NE | 87 |
Sutro Tower | Sutro Tower swag pack | Jennifer Wolfe | Myrtle Beach, SC | 107 |
Sutro Tower | Sutro Tower swag pack | Evan Adkins | Ashland, KY | 116 |
Telos Alliance | Telos swag pack | Stavros Hilaris | Washington, DC | 37 |
Telos Alliance | Tribit Portable Bluetooth Speaker | Jason Quinn | Albuquerque, NM | 34 |
Tieline | $25 Amazon gift card | Ryan Stotts | Mt. Juliet, TN | 103 |
Tieline | $25 Amazon gift card | David May | Lexington, KY | 147 |
SBE | Webinars by SBE registration | Steve Young | Fort Smith, AR | 56 |
SBE | $25 gift certificate to the SBE Store/SBE Bookstore | Josh Roberts | Lynchburg, VA | 78 |
SBE | SBE coffee mug and magnet | James Ellett | Tampa, FL | 39 |
SBE | SBE coffee mug and magnet | Daniel Carpenter | Westerville, OH | 52 |
SBE | SBE-logoed hat | John Conway | Owasso, OK | 56 |
SBE | copy of CertPreview | Joseph Fleming | Midlothian, VA | 60 |
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The SBE has learned that many stations have received prior-coordination notices (PCN) regarding Dish Network and its deployment of AWS-4 at 2000-2020 MHz (downlink) and 2180-2200 MHz (uplink). Those stations have sought guidance on a uniform response. In reviewing these notifications, the SBE believes the potential for interference to ENG is high as the downlink is 5MHz away from the lower DRL (2025-2025.5 MHz) and channel A1 (2025.5-2037.5 MHz).
The SBE recommends that all licensees generate a paper trail (emails) in case potential interference arises, and they should notify Comsearch/Dish Network in writing immediately noting that any harmful interference would not be tolerated, and any interference mitigation would be at their costs per FCC Rules §27.1133. The SBE is has a sample letter that members are welcome to use and/or adapt. Contact SBE Frequency Coordination Manager RJ Russell (rjrussell@sbe.org) for a copy.
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September 28-29, 2022
Ramada by Wyndham, Liverpool, NY
The annual Society of Broadcast Engineers National Meeting will be held in the Syracuse area on Sept. 28-29, 2022, in conjunction with the SBE Chapter 22 Broadcast & Technology Expo, presented by Chapter 22 of Central New York. SBE members from the region and across the country are invited to attend. The SBE national Meeting includes the SBE Annual Membership Meeting and annual SBE National Awards Reception and Dinner. Program details are below. Admission to the SBE National Meeting requires registration to the Engineering Conference. (all times are Mountain Time.)
Awards Dinner Keynote Speaker: TBA
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SBE Schedule
September 28
■ SBE Certification Committee Meeting
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
■ SBE Board of Directors Dinner
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
■ SBE Board of Directors Meeting
6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
September 29
■ SBE Fellows Breakfast 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Sponsored by Kathrein |
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■ SBE Annual Membership Meeting
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
The meeting will be streamed live online.
Online stream sponsored by Blackmagic Design, Dielectric, Jampro and Markertek.
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■ SBE National Awards Reception 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Sponsored by Comrex |
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■ SBE National Awards Dinner |
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Buy your tickets for the SBE Awards Reception and Dinner.
Event sponsorships are available. Contact Debbie Hennessey (317-846-9000) for information.
SBE22 Broadcast & Technology Expo
Accomodations
Reserve a room at the Ramada by Wyndham, Liverpool. Individual attendees may make hotel reservations directly through Ramada reservations at 315-457-1122. Ask for the Society of Broadcast Engineers special rate of $111 plus tax per night. A limited room block has been set aside for our guests.
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