Section
Officials
Chairperson
Mickey Kroll
770-638-1378
[email protected]
Secretary/Treasurer
David Priester
MCSi
770-455-7610 [email protected]
Membership Chairperson
T.J. Scott
Thomson Multimedia
770-338-4273
[email protected]
Program Chair
Ron Caird
Miranda
770-578-0096
[email protected]
Managers
Ry Alford ‘03
CTG Atlanta
404-352-3000
[email protected]
Larry McLendon ‘03
CNN Post Production
404-827-4358
[email protected]
Rick Ackermans ‘03
Turner Entertainment Networks
404-885-2037
[email protected]
David Siegler '04
Turner Studios
404-885-0314
[email protected]
Sterling Davis ’04
Cox Broadcasting
404-843-5230
[email protected]
Earl Higgins '04
AVID Broadcast
770-889-4591
[email protected]
Webmaster
Andy Funk
FOX5 News
404-898-0116
[email protected]
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Next Meeting:
Monday, March 10, 2025
Spiced Right BBQ at
6:30 PM
Program Starts at 7:30 PM
Hosted by:
SONY
and
CNN
Topic:
Data Storage Issues for Broadcasters
Tom Yuhas
Director, Data Storage Solutions Group
Sony
The decade long move to digital in the broadcast industry has generated both a wealth of digital assets and a abundance of issues related to storing and using these assets. Tom Yuhas, Director of the Data Storage Solutions Group at Sony, will provide an overview of industry trends in data storage. He will also provide an overview of Data Storage Solutions Group including information on SAIT and S Series Petasite. CNN personnel will discus the application of this technology in their archive project.
For security purposes, those planning to attend this month’s meeting are asked to send an e-mail directly to Geoff King of
CNN, [email protected]. Please put “SMPTE” as the subject in the header and put your name and company in the body. For questions on this procedure, Geoff can be reached at 404-827-5056.
Location:
CNN
One CNN Center
Atlanta, GA 30348
Map:
PLEASE
POST
Invite
your Friends And Colleagues
February Section
Meeting:
On February 10th, Turner and Rhode and Schwarz hosted the Section meeting. The program topic was “Multipath in 8VSB.” Eddy Venderkerke of Rhode and Schwarz began with an overview of the causes of signal fade including the causes of multi-path. He described the four types of multipath - Rayleigh Path, Ricean, Log Normal and Doppler shift and the differences between them. He also described the types of hardware that are used by receiver manufacturers to simulate the different types of multipath in order to find ways to overcome the problem. Finally, Eddy discussed the methods for measuring multipath and reflections of a transmitted signal. He also brought a test station to be used for demonstrating the measurement set on local signals.
Once again, we had a well attended session and the Section would like to thank Dave Siegler, Rick Ackermans and the Turner organization for their continuing hospitality to the Atlanta Section.
Section Elections:
Be looking for ballots for new officers for the Section. These should be arriving in the mail soon. There are several qualified candidates thanks to the work of Jim McKechnie and the Nominating Committee. Please be sure to return your ballots with your selections.
News of Related Organizations:
The
Peach State Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers is reorganizing
and plans to become more active. They now have a web site at www.broadcast.net/~sbe5/
where you can find more information.
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The
Order of the Iron Test Pattern has
reorganized, with new levels of membership available such that those
with as little as 15-minutes experience now qualify. The Order's
Creed: "Through snow and glitches,
dropouts, ghosts and now cliff-effect, we survive —
undaunted." Those interested in the order can learn more at
its web site. |
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Funk, [email protected] or [email protected].
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