SBE CHAPTER 40 NEWSLETTER

JULY 1997

SAN FRANCISCO

Roy Trumbull - Editor roy547@netcom.com

Bill Dempster - Artist


BABES/SBE LUNCHEON ON WEDNESDAY July 30TH

This month our speaker will be Rick Cabalka of ADC Telecommunications talking about Fiber Optic Fundamentals.
As usual our luncheon will be at Sinbad's. Sinbad's is just south of the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero near the foot of Mission Street. Please RSVP to Karen Prasek at Zack's: 408-324-0551 x126 as we've been running out of tables and chairs. We meet at 11:30 and are seated at 12:30.


WEB PAGES

The chapter 40 web page is at http://www.lns.com/sbe.


EMAIL MEISTER

The keeper of the chapter 40 email address list, Warren Reese his address is radions@jps.net.
Please note the new email address. Warren worked for the KPH in Bolinas which was one of the last coastal Morse sites. He has photos of KPH on his web page at http://www.jps.net/radions


SMPTE TUTORIALS

Aug 9th - Video Acquisition and Display
Presenter Charles Hintz will compare camera originated video with video from computers. This seminar will be from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm at Stanford, Gates B-01 Computer Science, Palo Alto.
Sept 13th - Digital Audio: Control and Compression
Steve Vernon of Dolby Labs and Birney Dayton and Chuck Meyers of Nvision will be the presenters. This seminar will be at Dolby Labs, 100 Potrero Av., San Francisco from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm.
Oct 11th - Growing into MPEG
The presenters will be Jean-Georges Fritsch, V.P. Technology and Software at Minerva Systems and Janek Kaliczak of FutureTel. The site is Stanford.
Nov 8th - Living in the Modern World of MPEG-2
The presenters are Dr. Paul Farrelle of Zapex Technologies, Jean-Georges Fritsch of Minerva. This is at Stanford.
For more complete details visit the SMPTE site at: http://members.aol.com/SMPTEsf/index.html and click on seminars.
The single seminar price will be $29 for SMPTE members and $39 for SBE members. Non- members rate is $59. The entire series is $89 for SMPTE members, $129 for SBE members, and $179 for non-members.
Make checks payable to SMPTE S.F. 1997 Tutorials and mail to: Andrew Zeyer, Finance Manager, SMPTE, 595 W. Hartsdale Av., White Plains, NY 10607-1824.


FREE PAPER WEIGHTS

Actually they require some sweat equity. They're two Harris plate transformers for an FM 20K. They each have one fried winding but would be simple to rewind. Weight is about 700 lbs apiece. Contact Fred Krock at KQED-FM.


THE MARK OF SORRO

Any dress extra who exclaims, "ZORRO!", ain't a homeboy. There's no Z sound in Spanish. The La Seta I was asking about was La Zeta. Very little spoken difference between them, if any. This slogan is used by a station group in which each station has a Z in the call letters. I had a lot of comments on this. Thanks to everyone.
My next question has to do with love in Spanish pop music. Pop music rewrites language. A phrase I've heard is mi amorada. Not to be found in a conventional dictionary. One Chicano dictionary defined it as being equal to "my old lady". What does it mean to you?


WALK ON DIGITAL WATER?

A position is open for an applicant who has 2 - 3 years experience in UNIX on SGI and SUN workstations (Dream on!). This is a customer service position with contact via phone, fax, and email. Contact Roland Tamayo of Management Recruiters at 209-432-3700


ARE YOU SPACED OUT?

While we all await the issuance of fabled OST 69, I've gone ahead and done some calculations having been intrigued by copies of petitions regarding the Commissions methods. The Longley-Rice method seems best suited for transmit sites on large Ping- Pong tables. It doesn't like lumps at all. One run I did had 26% of the locations with level 3 errors. The Commission assumes such spots are fine.
DTV to NTSC taboos should result in spacings of less than 15 miles or more than 60. Most of the Sutro DTV stations are between 30 and 40 miles from several taboos. The new co-channel spacing is set at 170 miles. But one NTSC station is less than 100 miles and another under 140.
Some of the replications can only be obtained by the sort of antenna Spock might come up with during the last commercial break on Trek.


SMPTE DTV MEETING THURSDAY JULY 31ST @ KPIX

The meeting will take place at 7:30 PM at the KPIX studios located at 855 Battery St., San Francisco. The presenter will be Phil Livingston of Panasonic who will devine the mysteries of 4:1:1 and 4:2:0 sampling.