Dennis Thompson
I was recently in Southern California for a bowling tournament and I’m always amazed by the number of hilltop antenna sites I see while driving the freeways. No matter where you go, it seems there’s a lot of RF beaming around out there. Read about one place in the continental US where one can escape the man-made RF shower, HERE
I bet there are a few local ENG truck operators who can give us a clue where our local RF ‘black holes’ exist.
To those of you who do the hiring when it’s time to replace the engineer who’s moving on (usually retiring) it may seem that no one’s rushing the door with the qualifications you want, there’s a good reason. Read a similar lament from Radio Worlds, Mark Persons on, “Where have all the engineers gone?
Note that the SBE membership drive is ending in a few days—see the membership drive article on how to win some great prizes.
If you haven’t paid them already, annual membership dues need to be in now. If you haven’t renewed yet, you can go online to renew and not have any interruption in your access to SBE services.
Alright, time to go to that seldom used drawer next to the television set. Dig way in the back and pull out the old Zenith “Flash-Matic” remote. OK, so the TV you bought in 1955 that came with it has long been gone but the remote looked so cool you couldn’t stand to part with it. We all know how that is. Eugene Polley, Zenith engineer and co-inventor of that remote died this month. He was 96. The Zenith Flash-Matic was the world’s first wireless remote control—it changed the way people watched TV. The futuristic ray-gun looking remote shot a beam of light at photo receptors located at the four corners of the television screen, giving TV viewers the ability to change channels and turn on and off the picture and sound for the first time without leaving their seat. Wow, a simple remote control that didn’t need its own instruction manual. The kind of thing that might make me want to watch TV again.
Our Chairman, Mr. Holden, has once again put together a must attend presentation for this month. Learn how to save your TV facility some money by transforming to low energy lighting. Forman and Associates lighting specialists, Harry Forman and Peter Rogers will tell us how. PLUS, long time friend of SBE 66, Jim Kubit (BMS) will discuss a new license-free 5.8GHz HD transmitter and receiver system. Find out the details by joining us for this hosted lunch presentation at the HomeTown Buffet in Clovis, Thursday May 31st at noon in the banquet room. See you there.
