SOCIETY OF BROADCAST ENGINEERS, INC.

Chapter Meeting Report

Date of Meeting- Nov. 12, 2002 Meeting Place- WSKG TV46 Vestal, NY

Chapter No.- 1 Location- Binghamton, NY

Presiding Chairman- Tom Siglin

Total Attendance- 14 SBE Members- 10 SBE Certified- 5 Guests- 5

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BUSINESS:

Meeting started at 7:36 PM.

Secretary’s Report-

Reading of the Oct. 8th minutes was accepted as read.

Treasurers Report-

Accepted as stated.

Door Prize raffle-

Donated by Unicorn Electronics was won by Scott Phillips. $6.00 went to the treasury.

Old Business-

1] Tom Siglin will be working on the discs to be distributed to SBE members.

The initial test disc was given to Dave Allen for beta testing.

2] December will be our holiday party at the Little Venice with meeting after dinner. The January/February meetings to be the Winter luncheons at Denny’s Diner on the Vestal Parkway in Vestal, NY.

New Business

December 16th is the Chapter 22 Holiday Party to be held at the University of Scranton.

Adjournment at 7:53 PM

PROGRAM: Thomas Freeman, Applications Engineer for Tektronix, presented a DTV power point presentation. The program - Critical Measurements in Standard and High Definition SDI Environments covered digital measurements in Standard and HDTV applications. Actual field measurements were taken and explained, with the emphasis on HDTV waveforms and what to look for in troubleshooting or general confirmation.