AFCCE will hold it’s annual meeting virtually this year on Friday, June 25th from 12-4 (eastern). Exact time and duration to be announced.
Register below to get the Zoom meeting link.
Past Events
May 2021 Luncheon Meeting
Friday, May 21, 2021
FCC RF Exposure Rule Changes
Kevin Graf, Electronics Engineer
FCC – Office of Engineering and Technology
Kevin will discuss the May 3rd FCC rule changes concerning RF exposure and the two-year review period for existing parties.
Dr. Kevin Graf specializes in the analysis of electromagnetic fields and…
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March 2021 Luncheon Meeting
Friday, March 19, 2021
ATSC 3.0 – NextGen Broadcasting is both TV and Radio
Fred Baumgartner
Director of Next Generation Broadcast Implementation, Sinclair Broadcasting
NextGen Broadcasting is both TV and radio as we know it — and a major departure. NextGen is seemingly everything – mobile, OTT-OTA, Ultra High Definition, Digital Ad Insertion, radio…
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February 2021 Luncheon Meeting
Friday, February 19, 2021
Thermal Imaging using drone for Broadcast Engineering
Paul Shulins, President of Shulins’ Solutions
This talk will discuss the theory behind thermal imaging and the practical applications I have found useful to broadcasters by combining the advanced sensors to detect infrared electromagnetic radiation with UAS (drones). Recently this set of tools has…
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January 2021 Luncheon Meeting
Friday, January 22, 2021
Design of Synchronized SFN for Maxxcasting/Zonecasting
Bert Goldman, President of Goldman Engineering Management
Bert Goldman will give a tutorial on the design of synchronized SFN (or Maxxcasting) which Geo has deployed in several places and then discuss the Zonecasting design which is based upon Maxxcasting as the foundation.
Mr. Goldman is…
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Virtual Annual Meeting Scheduled for October 16
AFCCE has decided to cancel all in-person social events for the remainder of 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions. This includes the October Fall Social and November FCC Reception. Board Meetings will continue to be held monthly via Zoom. Stay tuned for information about a virtual presenter for the September 25th meeting.
AFCCE’s by-laws require an…
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September 2020 Virtual Luncheon Meeting
Friday, September 25, 2020
ATSC 3.0 – Connecting the all IP System Together to Ensure Service Delivery
Tom Barbeau, VP of Engineering, Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark LLC
The transition from ATSC 1.0 to NEXTGEN TV is here. Delivery of an MPEG-2 Transport Stream via ASI, SMPTE310 SSI, or even via TSoIP is becoming obsolete with…
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February 2020 Luncheon Meeting
Friday, February 21, 2020
Antenna Systems for AM Transmission – Economy, Performance, Efficiency in the Context of the Changing Market
Benjamin F. Dawson, III, PE Consultant Engineer
While optimizing an AM antenna transmission system for performance is a worthwhile goal, the changing market circumstances require that some AM antenna systems be as economical as possible…
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January 2020 Luncheon Meeting
Friday, January 24, 2020
ATSC 3.0: A Status Report
Lynn Claudy, National Association of Broadcasters
A progress report on the ATSC 3.0 suite of standards, implementation status, and evolutionary path for future services.
On January 2nd it was announced that the ITU adopted ATSC 3.0 as a recommended digital broadcast standard. See the press release…
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November 2019 Luncheon Meeting
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Speaker: Rosemary Harold of FCC Enforcement Bureau
Rosemary Harold, Chief, FCC Enforcement Bureau
Rosemary C. Harold is Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, where she leads the Commission’s largest organizational unit, including its field offices around the country. Ms. Harold rejoins the agency from Wilkinson Barker Knauer…
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