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Speaker: Steve Lampen, Belden Wire & Cable, Author: The Audio-Video Cable Installer's Pocket Guide
Recently, Steve and his Belden team bent cable the way so many installers and users do, but the Belden engineers took comprehensive measurements before and after the damage was done. Exactly how much was the signal hurt by bending the cable too much or in the wrong way? Even grizzled cable installers with decades of experience are amazed by the results of the Belden tests. Until now, we had only rules of thumb for cable installation. Now we have hard engineering facts, some quite surprising.
Even if you don't install cable regularly, you can't afford to miss this presentation -- a single poorly installed cable, even a temporary one, can put you out of business.
Come join us for a no-host pizza dinner as we share an evening with acclaimed author, engineer, and speaker Steve Lampen, who will prove once again that cable and wire are anything but boring!
Steve Lampen of Belden has had an extensive career in broadcast engineering and installation, film production, and electronic distribution. He holds an FCC Lifetime General License (formerly a First Class FCC License) and is an SBE Certified Broadcast Engineer. On the data side, he's a BICSI Registered Communication Distribution Designer. His latest book, The Audio-Video Cable Installer's Pocket Guide, is published by McGraw-Hill.
Here's what others say about Steve Lampen: "Steve 'wrote the book', literally, on cable applications and problem solving. He has for years, represented the foremost manufacturer of audio/video/data cable in the world. He is without peer as a speaker/presenter to technical audiences. He imparts knowledge in a smooth, friendly manner holding the attention of groups from just a few to hundreds of engineers. I have never seen Steve unable to respond to a question on his subjects, always informative, never confrontational."
"Steve Lampen puts on a fantastic presentation. He not only really knows all of the details on wire and the use of wire but is able to present it in an interesting and informative method. I agree that papers that present 'A New Way of Doing Something Really Arcane' is boring and worthless and I usually avoid them myself. But Steve is in another completely different league."
Bill Ruck
Broadcast Engineer
San Francisco, CA
"Steve has no problem holding his audience's attention. Always stimulating, the material is solid, the graphics support the verbal, and Steve has an engaging humor-filled manner that keeps the audience plugged in."
Dale Reed
Trompeter Electronics
Mesa, AZ
Join us on Thursday, the 11th of December at 6:30 PM for drinks and pizza, or at 7:30 for his talk. Our "pizza meetings" always include a freewheeling Q&A session— informative and enjoyable!
*Food and drinks are availiable on a no-host basis (means that you pay for yours) from Round Table. There is no obligation to purchase to attend tonight's meeting.
PARKING: The Round Table in Menlo Park has two dozen spaces of its own, plus there's free municipal parking lots near by.
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