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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 [...]

Update: Zombie Satellite Galaxy 15 is after Rural Alaska

Zombie Satellite Galaxy 15

We reported in a previous post on the zombie satellite Galaxy 15 that went rogue on April 5th about the potential interference this “zombie satellite” could cause, at the time with AMC 11.

This time, roughly 35,000 people in rural Alaska may experience problems caused by the zombie satellite. They may lose Internet access, long-distance phone service or both for periods of 90 minutes to as long as 5.5 hours between Wednesday August 11th and Saturday August 14th. [...]

AMC 11 Runs for Life from Zombie Satellite Galaxy 15

The rogue Galaxy 15 satellite

The Galaxy 15 satellite that was knocked out by a solar storm on April 5th (but is somehow still transmitting) has been slowly drifting towards the AMC 11 satellite and was expected to drift into the orbit of AMC 11 around May 23rd.  Since these 2 satellites operate on the same frequencies, there was expected [...]

The Kathrein MSK-200... One Box, One DTV Test Solution

MSK-200

The MSK-200 TV Signal Analyzer combines the best of everything in measurement capabilities.  With the demands of the broadcast industry and new beginnings and unknowns with the DTV conversion, the MSK-200 is equipped to handle challenges today and tomorrow.  The MSK-200 comes out of the box with the ability to demodulate all DVB signals whether [...]

LBA Partners with Kathrein – Schomandl for Western Hemisphere Test Equipment Distribution

Exciting things are happening for LBA Technology test equipment solutions customers! German RF equipment manufacturer Kathrein and subsidiary Schomandl will exclusively distribute its radio frequency test equipment, including devices for digital TV, radio, wireless, CATV, satellite and laboratory use, through the RF systems expertise of LBA Technology, throughout the western hemisphere. Read more [...]

Meet Our Kathrein Group Partners

Radio frequency test equipment now offered by LBA includes instruments for digital TV, radio, wireless, CATV, satellite and laboratory use. The supply of this equipment in the Americas through LBA is fully supported by the entire Kathrein – Schomandl team! Read more [...]

LBA Technology Forms Test Equipment Group – Expands RF market focus

LBA Technology has restructured its operations to include a new Test Equipment Group. The new group will take responsibility for existing test products manufactured or sold by LBA. It is also in the process of activating major new third party test equipment distribution agreements under the Group. According to Jerry Brown, President of LBA Technology, [...]

A Retired Utility Engineer Comments on BPL

From what I have been able to observe, the “driver” for establishing the new data service may have come directly from the White House. There it may be the case that some big-hitter campaign contributors got to the administration, or it may be the case that they were convinced by “experts” that BPL was the [...]