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December 2009 MEETING/Recording Session
How Cable Works
- 7:00 PM Social time/refreshments in “Green Room”, KMVT-15, Mountain View
- 8:00 PM studio set-up/camera blocking
- 8:30 PM Program Recording in Main Studio
Program:
With this series of recording sessions, the SMPTE San Francisco Section is building up a body of online, on-demand technical tutorials in "podcast" form for use by a wide range of technical people, from advanced to beginning student.Recording at KMVT, Mountain View cable TV, Steve Lampen of Belden continues his series on connectivity and cabling. This time, he provides a basic, introductory primer on wire and cable, multiconductor, twisted pairs and coaxial cable, where they came from, why they were invented, and how they work.
Steve includes an overview of analog and digital signals, frequency and wavelength, resistance, capacitance, inductance, and the result of those three parameters, impedance. He also provides a short refresher course on unbalanced and balanced lines, return loss, and skin effect.
We plan to post this podcast online later this month, so relax now, skip the traffic, and see you on the Internet. The SMPTE SF Section is going 100% "virtual"!
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Steve Lampen 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.
Welcome:
SMPTEsf welcomes members and friends to attend without charge.Location:
KMVT Community Television Ch.15 (cable access for Mountain View/Cupertino/Los Altos)1400 Terra Bella Ave., Suite M
Mountain View, CA 94043
