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LBA’s Chris Horne Warns of Spectrum-Splitting Issues

Just three decades after the first generation of wireless telephone technology was introduced, engineers, wireless operators, and industry analysts are talking about the best way to split the fourth generation broadband spectrum into more usable parts. It could get messy, LBA Group’s Chris Horne warns. Horne’s warning came in a discussion at last week’s 4G [...]

LBA Experts Teach RF Safety to Tower Professionals

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Two RF safety experts from LBA Group, Inc. will teach radio frequency safety to company managers in a class in Texas. The class sponsor is ComTrain, which provides safety training for the vertical structure construction industry. It sought LBA’s expertise. “Basic Tower Construction Class” is Sept. 19-23 at ComTrain headquarters in Austin. LBA will present [...]

RF Safety Awareness Boosted by New LBA Online Course

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Knowledge is power. More to the point, knowledge of radio frequency energy is the surest way for a wireless worker to protect himself from being exposed to dangerous levels of RF radiation. LBA Group, in cooperation with university educators, has developed the OSHA RF awareness course with certificate of completion so that wireless tower workers [...]

Strategies for Lowering Your LTE/4G Backhaul Bill

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LBA’s CTO Chris Horne will be moderating this upcoming open webinar presented for FREE by WCAI on Thursday March 17, 2011 at 4pm EDT.  You can register for the webinar here. The Panel: Stuart D. Little, Director of Corporate Marketing, Aviat Networks Gary Croke, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Aviat Networks Chris Horne, CTO, LBA Group [...]

Can LTE 4G create Interference with Cable TV? Yes!

Figure 1: Channel Plans for LTE and Existing Cable TV Sub-band

The rollout of 3G networks across the country is old news with the recent announcements by Verizon, AT&T, and others to rapidly deploy 700 MHz 4G LTE this year throughout the USA. These high speed networks are slated to grow with ten’s of thousands of new towers and antennas, and to employ novel digital modulation [...]

Holiday Greetings from LBA

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Greetings and best wishes for this Holiday Season to our friends and customers worldwide. During 2010, our staff members have been fortunate to visit with many of you around the globe, and they extend their personal greetings to you and your associates. May all of you have peace and prosperity in the coming year! Lawrence [...]

Chris Horne joins LBA Group as new CTO

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Christopher K. Horne returns to LBA Group as new chief technical officer [...]

Industry Experts Lay Course to EBS/BRS Safe Harbors

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The FCC requires that all 2600 MHz band BRS and EBS broadband licensees who would must demonstrate that they provide “substantial service” to actual customers no later than May 1, 2011. Failure to meet this requirement will result in forfeiture of the license and the licensee will be ineligible to regain it. Various “safe harbors” [...]

Why Does Workplace Radio Frequency Safety Get So Little Respect?

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It is our experience that RF safety accountability and hazard avoidance is well established in the wireless communications sector. However, hazardous industrial RF is widely encountered in a wide variety of industry settings through all manner of process equipment and non-radio systems. Many of these systems are benign just out of the manufacturer’s shops, but [...]

Lawrence Behr Interviewed by NC Magazine

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Lawrence Behr, founder of LBA Group, was interviewed in the November / December 2009 issue of NC Magazine.  LBA Group earned position number 2,780 on the 2009 Inc. 5000, Inc’s annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. In the interview, Behr said, “We were founded in 1963, and we have been quite adaptable [...]

Join Our New Linked-In Groups

LBA sponsors these groups to assist our user communities in exchanging information, tips, and opinions. Please visit www.linkedin.com, join up and check in – it’s [...]

Dancing to an RF Tune

At the production test facilities of a major circuit fabricator, it was dance time – all the time! This company fabricated garage door openers by the thousands, and put them through their paces on a neat row of test positions. The problem was, one tester would open his “door”, and his neighbor’s “door” would go [...]

FCC Authorizes Distributed TV Transmission Systems

In a breakthrough action, the Federal Communications Commission today authorized digital television stations to use DTS technology. Read more [...]