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February Meeting: February 23 2017 12:00 Noon

February 21, 2017
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The FCC Spectrum Auction–What Happens Next?

Presentation and Hosted Lunch

                As the spectrum auction winds down, the FCC plans to open another opportunity for stations to negotiate channel-sharing deals. lectrosonics

Kelly Fair, Western Regional Sales Manager for Lectrosonics discusses the next steps in the FCC’s incentive auction. 

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What are the challenges for wireless microphone systems manufacturers and users given the wireless microphone frequency crunch?

kelly-fair-lectrosonics  Kelly Fair  Western Regional Sales Manager Lectrosonics

Lectrosonics is a leading manufacturer of wireless microphone systems and audio processing products for the film, broadcast, theatre, music and installed sound markets since 1971. Lectrosonics is a US manufacturer based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
Kelly Fair has more than 20 years of sales, product management and business development experience in the professional sound industry. He spent 13 years with Sennheiser Electronics Corporation as Southwestern US District Sales Manager, Professional Products.
 

Meet Kelly Fair at the upcoming SBE 66 meeting Thursday, February 23rd at 12:00 PM at the Mitsui Buffet in Clovis

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12:00 Noon HOSTED LUNCH PRESENTATION

                117 West Shaw Clovis 
(Wild West Village Shopping Center between Villa and Minnewawa on Shaw-North Side)  Mention you’re with the SBE group when you enter for seatingrfspecialties2   
 

The Broadcast Incentive Auction

February 18, 2017
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Here is a ‘Readers Digest’ version from the mouth of the FCC explaining the Broadcast Incentive Auction

Across the country, in both rural and urban areas, consumers and businesses expect to have access to wireless connectivity anywhere, anytime. Today, there are more connected devices than there are people living in the U.S., and about 70 percent of Americans use data-hungry smartphones. more…

SBE Alert -Audio Streaming Devices

February 15, 2017
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–OK, so this may be old news, but it never hurts to be prepared

The SBE is sharing the following message with our members at the request of the FCC. more…

Got Membership?

February 14, 2017
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Membership Drive

The 2017 SBE Membership Drive Begins March 1 more…

SBE Webinar – Transmission Lines March 2

February 14, 2017
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The eight-part SBE RF101: Broadcast Terrestrial Transmission Systems webinar series continues on March 2 at 2 p.m. ET with RF101: Module 2 – Transmission Lines
Instructor Dennis Baldridge, CPBE, 8-VSB, AMD, DRB, CBNT more…

January Meeting: Thursday January 26, 2017 7:00PM

January 23, 2017
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SBE66 Annual BIG PIZZA BASH !!

                                                – Hosted by SBE66 –

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   LUNA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT  7:00PM
           349 POLLASKY AVENUE  CLOVIS
 

Be There or Be Hungry

The Society of Broadcast Engineers Forms EAS Advisory Group

January 20, 2017
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The Society of Broadcast Engineers has actively worked as a source of information for the Emergency Alert System since it was launched.
As the system has developed and evolved to include new technologies and alerting partners, so has the SBE adapted to be the most effective and thorough resource for broadcasters to use to implement their EAS efforts. more…

Initial Findings of the 2016 EAS Nationwide Test

January 17, 2017
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At the end of December, the FCC released an initial overview of the nationwide EAS test results and highlighted several opportunities for strengthening the EAS. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) and the National Weather Service (NWS), conducted a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) more…

December Meeting: Thursday December 29, 2016

December 21, 2016
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12:00 Noon    No-host Lunch

Mitsui Buffet

117 West Shaw  Clovis

(Wild West Village Shopping Center between Villa and Minnewawa on Shaw-North Side)

Mention you’re with the SBE group when you enter for seating

Random Noise: December 2016

December 20, 2016
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Dennis Thompson

Dennis Thompson

Our last official 2016 gathering of the Central Valley Chapter 66 SBE group will be Thursday December 29th. Join us at the new Mitsui Buffet location in Clovis for the lunch meeting which begins at noon. more…