From the PresidentDear BTS Members:

With this first Newsletter of2003, I am pleased to welcome BillMeintel as its new Editor, while ex-tending my heartfelt gratitude toits founding Editor, John Tollefson,who has decided to hang up hisgreen eyeshade after ten years ofdedicated service. I know Bill willcontinue the Newsletter’s fine tra-dition, and that he will welcomeyour contributions and comments.

I also want to welcome our new-est AdCom members, StephenDukes and Sid Shumate, whom youhave elected to three-year termsalong with incumbents WaltCiciora, Tom Silliman, and ValentinTrainotti. Lanny Nass is taking overthe books as Treasurer from AlanRosner. I’m grateful to Alan for hiswatchful eye and prudent steward-ship of our Society’s finances for thepast two years. And I hope thatLanny’s additional responsibilitieswon’t interfere with his continuingto enliven each issue of the Newslet-ter with Brain Teasers!

The start of another year is agood time to reflect on the state ofour Society and to talk about someof our plans for 2003. At our Janu-ary AdCom meeting, we began pre-paring for the formal five-year re-views of our Society and ourpublications by the IEEE TechnicalActivities Board, which will occurin November. One worry we do nothave this year is our financial con-dition – unlike several other societ-ies that find themselves in the redand on IEEE’s financial watch list.Our financial good health is due inlarge measure to the revenue wederive as a partner of the Interna-tional Broadcasting Convention(IBC). This revenue enables us to

subsidize our fixed costs of mem-bership, thus keeping our dueslow. Our publications are also ingood shape now, unlike the situa-tion we found ourselves in at theprevious review, when the Trans-actions suffered from the lack ofadequate peer review of its content.I am pleased not only with thequality of its content, but also withits increasing diversity as we ac-tively solicit contributions relatedto non-terrestrial broadcast tech-nologies, such as Internetmulticasting and direct-to-homesatellite broadcasting, whileexpanding the number of paperson cable television technology.

However, I am concerned thatmembership in BTS continues to de-cline. While we experience somechurn each year, adding new mem-bers even as some current memberschoose not to renew, the overalltrend has been downward for thepast half-dozen years after peakingin the mid-1990s. This year, we planto reach out to the members we’velost over the past two years, to try todetermine the reasons and to guideus in adapting better to the changesin our industry and our members’changing needs. The IEEE Corpo-rate Research group will be conduct-ing random surveys of members ofall societies later this year, and wewill have an opportunity to custom-ize some of the questions asked ofour members. We’ll keep you in-formed of these activities as theyprogress. In the meantime, pleaseconvey your concerns, comments,and suggestions directly to us.

Best regards,

Tom GurleyPresident

Broadcast TechnologySociety ISSN 1067-490X

Volume 11, Number 1, March 2003

From The EditorIn case you have not heard, af-ter 11 years John Tollefson hasstepped down as editor of theBTS Newsletter and I am hon-ored to have been asked to takehis place. John has served aseditor of the Newsletter sinceits inception in 1992 for whichwe owe him a huge debt ofgratitude.

For those who do not knowme I am a long time member ofIEEE and the BTS. My day jobfor the past 14 years has beenas a consultant (TechWare, Inc.)primarily working on spectrumplanning and implementationfor DTV and related activities.Prior to that I spent 20 yearswith the FCC, initially in field of-fices in Buffalo and Chicago andthen in Mass Media’s Policy andRules division in Washington.

Since being editor of a news-letter is new territory for me Iam open to suggestions and ofcourse any help would begreatly appreciated.

In this issue we have a mes-sage from John Tollefson, andfrom the Editor of the BTSTransactions on Broadcastingplus reports from our chapterin St. Petersburg, Russia andan interesting article from theIEEE History Center as well asour regular features.

In addition, please note theCall for Papers for the 53rd An-nual BTS Symposium to beheld in October. This is an ex-cellent opportunity to shareyour knowledge with your col-leagues. Deadline for abstractsis May 19.

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IEEE Broadcast Technology SocietyNewsletter (ISSN 1067-490X) is pub-lished quarterly by the BroadcastTechnology Society of the Instituteof Electrical and Electronics Engi-neers, Inc. Headquarters address:345 East 47th Street, New York, NY10017-2394. Sent at a cost of $1.00per year to each member of theBroadcast Technology Society.Printed in USA. Periodicals postagepaid at New York, NY and at addi-tional mailing offices. Postmaster:Send address changes to: IEEEBroadcast Technology SocietyNewsletter, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane,Piscataway, NJ 08855.

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The BTS Newsletter welcomes contri-butions from every member. Pleaseforward materials you would like in-cluded to the editor at wmeintel@computer.org. Here are our deadlinesfor upcoming issues:Issue Due Date

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BTS NewsletterMarch 2003

From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . 1

From the President . . . . . . . . . 1

From the PastEditor . . . . . . . . . 2

Remembering Tom Mann . . . . . 2

The IEEE Transactions onBroadcasting . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Technical Meeting of IEEEBT/COM/CAS . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2002 Annual Report of the EEEBT/COM/CAS . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Who's Who . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

AdCom Meeting Minutes . . . . . 7

Standards Corner . . . . . . . . . 12

BTS AdCom and Officers . . . . . 15

Brain Teaser . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

From the Past EditorA big WELCOME to Bill Meintel,

your new Editor of the BroadcastTechnology Society Newsletter. Billhas given me, as your former edi-tor, the opportunity to contributeto the newsletter, and I certainlyappreciate being able to write with-out the responsibility of editing.

When we restarted the Newslet-ter in 1992, our goals were to pro-vide information on IEEE and theSociety to all of us as members andto provide a forum for discussion ofissues. Over these past 10 years,many people have contributed tothe Newsletter which has made theediting job a real pleasure. But be-yond my happiness, the newsletter

has fulfilled its mission, and manypeople have commented on thepositive role the newsletter has.

As we move forward, please pro-vide Bill the good support you havegiven me. Contributions from ev-eryone are what make the newslet-ter interesting and informative.Our membership in IEEE and theBroadcast Technology Society isworth far more than the cost, andthe newsletter plays an importantrole in the value. Take advantage ofyour membership and thenewsletter.

John Tollefson

Remembering Tom Mann

Broadcast Engineer and PastIEEE Transactions on BroadcastingEditor-in-Chief

The Broadcast Industry mourns long time veteran ThomasL. Mann, 53 who died of an apparent heart attack December19, 2002 at his home in California.

Tom was best known to the IEEE Broadcast Technology So-ciety as the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Edi-tor-in-Chief from 1997-1999. During that time, he also servedon the Society AdCom.

Tom’s many accomplishments in broadcasting began at theage of 15 when he built a working radio station and transmit-ter in his family’s garage. Most recently, Tom founded the con-sulting firm Weyrcliffe-Century. Before that, Tom served asVice-President of engineering and new technologies for theUSA Network, Director of Engineering at KCAL-TV, ManagingDirector of operations and engineering at WRC-TV and theNBC Television Network in Washington, D.C. During a tenurewith Cavell, Mertz, & Davis he built the first three commercialdigital television stations permitted by the United States FCC.

Tom is survived by his partner, Matthew Rahman, his sis-ter, Barbara Mann and nephew, Andrew Rapisarda of Rich-mond, Va.

A contribution in memory of Tom Mann can bemade to the Wildwood Conservation Foundation.The foundation’s website is atwww.wildwoodfoundation.org.

THE IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTINGThe IEEE Broadcast Technology

Society has a proud tradition ofpublishing the quarterly IEEETransactions on Broadcasting forthe past 49 years. This journalserves the broadcast technologyprofession worldwide by publishingoriginal, high-quality papers thatpresent significant contributions toall aspects of broadcasttechnology.

The issues are published inMarch, June, September, and De-cember of each year and are dis-tributed to all members of the Soci-ety. This journal is also distributedthrough subscription services touniversities, colleges, commercialbusinesses, and government orga-nizations. Each issue consists ofapproximately 100 pages of techni-cal papers and correspondence re-lating to research and advances inbroadcast technology.

Technical ContentThe scientific material published inthe Transactions relates to the top-ics that are within the Field of In-terest of our Society as defined inour Constitution that states:

The field of interest of the Broad-cast Technology Society (BTS)shall encompass devices, equip-ment, techniques, and systemsrelated to broadcast technology,including the production, distri-bution, transmission, and propa-gation aspects.

This field of interest encouragesus to publish high-quality techni-cal papers about existing andnewly emerging technologies of thebroadcast engineering profession.These technologies include digitalradio and television transmission,using terrestrial, cable, satellite,and Internet; AM, FM, and TV an-tenna systems and measurements;RF radiation standards and, test-ing. Also of interest are papers onnew developments in broadcasttransmission engineering such asdigital broadcast system propaga-tion methodologies, human expo-sure to electromagnetic radiofre-quency radiation, and automationof broadcast facilities operation.

Authors InvitedReaders are encouraged to submitmanuscripts to the IEEE Transac-tions on Broadcasting. To qualifyfor publication, these materialsmust be previously unpublishedand not be under considerationelsewhere. Authors need not be amember of the IEEE or of the IEEEBroadcast Technology Society butthey are encouraged to join the So-ciety to further expand their partic-ipation and knowledge in broad-cast engineering.

Contributions may be Transac-tions Papers, Brief Papers or Let-ters. The distinction is not one ofquality, but rather of nature. ATransaction Paper is awell-rounded treatment of a prob-lem area. It is a presentation of sig-nificant research, development, orapplication of broadcast technol-ogy. Transactions Papers includecontributions from authors thatdescribe useful new results, ideas,or innovations that advance thestate-of-the-art of broadcast tech-nology engineering, systems, andapplications. Brief Papers conciselyaddresses one or two points relatedto a problem. Brief Papers are in-tended for the rapid publication ofnew and significant research re-sults. Letters are usually one ortwo pages. Letters serve to dissemi-nate significant remarks, ideas, orsuggestions of interest to broad-cast engineers. Letters can also beused to provide comments on pre-viously published papers. In addi-tion, the IEEE Transactions onBroadcasting will publish TutorialPapers from time to time. TheMarch 2003 issue, 110 pages,presents four Transactions Papers,four Brief Papers, and a detailedTutorial and Technical Paper titled“DTV Repeater Emission MaskAnalysis.”

Peer ReviewThe IEEE Transactions on Broad-casting employs the peer-reviewsystem in the processing of manu-scripts for publication in order toensure that this publication re-tains its position as the premiersource of archival literature usedworldwide for the development of

broadcast technology and the pro-fession. The IEEE BroadcastTechnology Society has establisheda Publications Committee chairedby the Vice President of the Societyto provide guidance and oversightof the peer review process. The Ed-itor-in-Chief and all Associate Edi-tors for the Transactions are mem-bers of this Committee. In addition,the IEEE BTS Publications Staffpersonnel who provide support tothe Editors, reviewers, and authorsare members of this Committee.The Committee generally meetsmonthly by a one hourteleconference call to review thestatus of the papers in the peer re-view process, to assign new papers,to the Associate Editors, and to fi-nalize the table of contents for theforthcoming issue of the Transac-tions. This teleconferencing ar-rangement is efficient and effectivefor coordinating the activities of theEditors, BTS Publications Staff,and the IEEE Staff.

Reviewers’ suggestions for therevision of the manuscript are for-warded to the author by the BTSPublications Office staff. The finaldecision as to the publication ofthe manuscript is based on theopinions expressed by the review-ers plus the judgment of the Asso-ciate Editor who is managing thepeer review process.

Reviewers NeededThe quality and timeliness of eachmanuscript selected for publicationrests on the evaluation and gradingprovided by each reviewer. The ex-pertise and time volunteered by thereviewers to carefully evaluatemanuscripts and offer commentsto the authors provides the funda-mental foundation for the IEEETransactions on Broadcasting tomaintain a high level of technicalquality and timeliness in its publi-cation. At this time, the BTS Publi-cations Committee has a roster ofhighly qualified and experiencedAssociate Editors in terrestrial ra-dio and television and cable televi-sion technologies. We welcome newreviewers who are able to sharetheir expertise in these fields ofbroadcast engineering. We are also

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seeking authors, and reviewers inthe newer technologies of satelliteradio and television broadcastingand in Internet technologies thatare rapidly converging with tradi-tional broadcasting.

If you are interested in participat-ing in the IEEE Transactions onBroadcasting as a reviewer, pleasecontact the Editor-in-Chief directlyat t.kuligowsk@ieee.org. Please in-dicate your area of expertise or expe-rience and include a CV or resume.

Electronic AccessIEEE Xplore provides full-text ac-cess to IEEE transactions, jour-nals, magazines and conferenceproceedings published since 1988and all current IEEE Standards.The IEEE Xplore service enablesIEEE Broadcast Technology Soci-ety members to electronically ac-cess papers published in the IEEETransactions on Broadcasting be-ginning with the March 1988 issueand continuing with all subsequentissues. I recommend that you visit

the IEEE Xplore web site andbrowse the listing of prior issuesand papers published in the IEEETransactions on Broadcasting.

If you have not logged onto IEEEXplore previously, go to: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org and navigatevia the links to the IEEE Transac-tions on Broadcasting. Or you canuse a link to directly access theIEEE Transactions on Broadcast-ing which is: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/RecentIssue.jsp?Punumber=11.

Types of access to IEEE Xplorematerials are as follows:

• IEEE BROADCAST TECHNOL-OGY SOCIETY MEMBERS:Search and access abstract/ci-tation records and full-textdocuments of the IEEE Trans-actions on Broadcasting.

• FREE TO ALL: Browse and ac-cess tables of contents and ab-stracts of IEEE transactions,journals, magazines, conferenceproceedings and standards.

• IEEE MEMBERS: Browse orsearch to access any IEEE ab-

stract/citation record as wellas articles from IEEE Spec-trum Magazine. Access yourpersonal online subscriptionsusing your active IEEE WebAccount. If you do not haveone, go to “Establish IEEE WebAccount” to set up an account.

• CORPORATE, GOVERNMENTAND UNIVERSITY SUBSCRIB-ERS: Search and access ab-stract/citation records andfull-text documents of the IEEEonline publications to whichyour institution subscribes.

I hope you will find the IEEEXplore service useful to you andyour professional needs.

If you need more information,have questions, or suggestions forimproving the IEEE Transactionson Broadcasting, please let meknow. I welcome your feedback.

Theodore J. KuligowskiEditor-in-Chief

t.kuligowski@ieee.org.

Technical Meeting of IEEE BT/COM/CASSt.Petersburg Chapter (Russia)Dmitry Tkachenko,Chapter Chairman

On January 30, a technicalmeeting of St.Petersburg IEEEBT/COM/CAS Chapter took placein St. Petersburg (Russia) at thepremises of the MART companywhich is a major manufacturer ofTV and radio broadcast transmit-ters in Russia. There were 14 at-tendees at the meeting includingmembers of the Chapter and someother interested colleagues.

Participants of the meetingshared with the colleagues themain results of their work in thelast year and talked about plansfor the year 2003. The meeting wasopened by Dr. Artamonov, who isthe Deputy Director of the MARTcompany and one of the organizersand most active members of theSt.Petersburg IEEE BT/COM/CASChapter. Dr. Artamonov informedparticipants about the work on de-velopment of Russian standards

for digital television. It is expectedthat the package of digital TV stan-dards will include 23 documentscovering all relevant fields (terres-trial, cable and satellite transmis-sion, studio equipment, measure-ments, receivers, transmitters,etc.). A number of Russian compa-nies and research institutes takepart in this work. The work is coor-dinated by Mr. Pavlov, the Head ofTV and Radio Department ofRussian Ministry ofCommunications.

The General Director ofTeleMedium company Mr. Volobuevtalked about experience of hiscompany which started commer-cial DVB-T broadcasting in St.Pe-tersburg area on July 16, 2002. OnFebruary 3, 2003 the companystarts digital TV broadcasting withenhanced video and audio qualityincluding 16:9 screen ratio videoand 5-channel Dolby sound thatwill give opportunity to watch these

channels at the Home Theaters sothat consumers feel the real differ-ence in comparison with analog TVquality.

The Head of Digital TV and Ra-dio Laboratory of St.Petersburg Ra-dio Research Institute LONIIR Dr.Sinilnikiov talked about participa-tion of his institute in the RussianState Program on distribution ofdigital TV signal to all territory ofRussia via satellites. Due to hugeterritory of Russia the only trans-mission system which could coverall the territory of the country is aset of satellites. It is expected thatdigital TV signal will be distributedvia satellite broadcasting in theDVB-S format, then at the localsatellite receiving stations it will bere-transmitted by terrestrial TVtransmitters in the digital (DVB-T)or analog (SECAM) format. It isnecessary to have many thousandsterrestrial transmitters in order tocover the populated areas of the

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country, but in unpopulated re-gions consumers will be able toreceive satellite programs directlywith their dish antennas.

The Head of Department ofSupertelDALS company Dr.Lukinov delivered informationabout recent development of thiscompany - transmitters of digitalDVB-C TV signal for head-end sta-tions of cable TV networks. Theprice of this equipment is twicelower in comparison with equip-ment of foreign companies im-ported to Russia. These head-endstations may feed cable networkswith up to 100 thousand receivers.

The Head of Video Systems De-partment of St.Petersburg Instituteof Cinema and Television Prof.

Glasman informed colleaguesabout the most interesting trendsin technology that he noted at theIBC2002 conference and exhibitionthat took place in Amsterdam inSeptember 2002. In opinion ofProf. Glasman, one of interestingtrends is transmission of video viaIP networks, but usual IP networksdo not ensure the necessary qual-ity of service if we use simple en-capsulation of video data into IPpackets. A possible solution here isintroduction of some extensions toInternet protocols that would meetthe requirements of videotransmission.

The meeting was closed by theChairman of the ChapterDr.Tkachenko who shared with

colleagues the information about52-nd Annual Broadcast Sympo-sium that took place in Washing-ton D.C. on October 9 – 11, 2002.Colleagues with interest learn theinformation about topics of Sym-posium and papers delivered atthe Symposium. The most of at-tention was attracted by such top-ics as work on enhancements inthe field of 8-VSB digital TV tech-nologies and introduction of IBOCtechnology for radio broadcastingin the USA.

The meeting was followed by afriendly reception where colleagueshad opportunities for informal dis-cussions. It was solved to have thenext meeting of the Chapter at thenext quarter of 2003.

2002 Annual Report of the St. PetersburgIEEE Joint Chapter of the Broadcast Technology,Communications and Circuits and Systems Societies

I. Activity of the Chapter inCooperation with otherOrganizations In 2002.1. The Fourth International Confer-

ence “Broadcast & Communica-tions Russia” (Moscow, ExhibitionCenter “Sokolniki”, 13-15 Febru-ary 2002). More than 100 paperswere delivered at the conferenceand more than 1500 visitors at-tended it. The Chapter was re-sponsible for coordination of allmain issues concerning prepara-tion of this conference except forfinancial and business matters.Chapter Chair Dr. DmitryTkachenko was the Technical Pro-gram Chair for this conference.

2. Presentations on future trends ofCommunications were made bythe Vice-President of the IEEECommunications Society Dr. Al-exander Gelman both in St.Pe-tersburg Electrotechnical Univer-sity and in St.Petersburg StateTechnical University on 1-2 April2002. About 20 – 30 participants(including students) attendedthese presentations in each place.

3. Tutorial and overview on “Videotest & measurement equipment -analog and digital” and “Basic

presentation of Tektronix solu-tions on testing & monitoringMPEG/DVB-compliant commu-nication channels” were deliveredby the representative ofTektronix company Mr. FlorinVasiliu on 22 April 2002 at theMART company in St.Petersburg.An active member of the ChapterDr. Alexander Artamonov orga-nized this event for the membersof the Chapter and other inter-ested persons. About 25 special-ists attended this presentation

4. A meeting with the IEEE mem-bers and the conference organiz-ers was held at the Second In-ternational Conference“Television: Transmission andImage Processing” (St.Peters-burg State Electrotechnical Uni-versity, 21 – 22 May 2002). TheVice-President of the IEEE Com-munications Society Dr. Alexan-der Gelman and the Chairmanof the International Associationof Broadcasting ManufacturersMartin Salter attended thismeeting. The conference pro-gram included about 50 papers.

5. The Third TelecommunicationsSymposium “Mobile Communi-

cations - Advanced Technologiesand Services” (St.Petersburg, 5 -7 June 2002). 22 papers weredelivered at the Symposium. Ac-tive members of the ChapterProf. Mstislave Sivers and Dr.Alexander Pasmurov were keyorganizers of this Symposium.

6. Together with other St.Peters-burg IEEE Chapters the mem-bers of the Chapter took part inthe seminar on Microelectronicsdelivered by Prof. Vijay Arora(Division of Engineering, WilkesUniversity, USA) on 13 June2002 in St.PetersburgElectrotechnical University. Theseminar contained 4 presenta-tions and the meeting of theIEEE members.

7. The First IEEE International Con-ference on Circuits and Systemsfor Communications was held inSt.Petersburg on 26 – 28 June2002. The conference was spon-sored by the IEEE Communica-tions Society (due to help of Prof.Trevor Clarkson) and technicallyco-sponsored (including the finan-cial support) by the IEEE Circuitsand Systems Society (due to helpof Prof. Rui de Figueiredo). The

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conference officially carried theIEEE logo and the Program Com-mittee selected about 80 % of 140submitted papers from 28 coun-tries. The most of work on prepar-ing and organizing the conferencewas made by the Vice-Chair of theChapter Prof. Alexander Korotkov,who was the Chair of TechnicalProgram Committee. The confer-ence was headed by 2 Co-Chairs -Prof. Rui de Figueiredo (Universityof California, Irvine, USA) andProf. Vagan Shakhguildian (Mos-cow Technical University of Com-munications and Informatics,Russia). Among participants andspeakers of the conference werePresident of the IEEE Circuits andSystems Society Prof. JosefNossek, IEEE Region 8 Direc-tor-Elect Prof. Anthony Davies andother IEEE officers and volun-teers.

8. The IEEE meeting and WelcomeReception for the IEEE membersand participants of the FirstIEEE International Conferenceon Circuits and Systems forCommunications was organizedby the Chapter due to the finan-cial support of the IEEE Com-munications Society on 26 June2002 in St.Petersburg. About100 conference participants andIEEE members attended themeeting and the reception.

9. Together with other local IEEEChapters, the Chapter took partin the joint seminar on Power

Electronics of St.PetersburgIEEE Chapters and scientific net-work NORFA that was held on 18November 2002 in the St.Peters-burg State Electrotechnical Uni-versity. The seminar contained 3presentations and meeting of theIEEE members.

10. The Chapter Chair Dr. DmitryTkachenko took part in the meet-ings of the IEEE Broadcast Tech-nology Society (BTS) Administra-tive Committee on 9 April 2002(Las-Vegas, USA) in the frame-work of the NAB exhibition/con-ference and on 9 October 2002 inthe framework of the IEEEBroadcast Symposium (Washing-ton D.C., USA). These trips werefinancially supported by theIEEE BTS. Both meetings gavethe opportunity for the Chapterto be more involved in the IEEEactivity and to establish new con-tacts with other Chapters andBTS officers and volunteers. Thetechnical information from men-tioned conferences was veryvaluable for sharing with Rus-sian colleagues.

II. Future Events withParticipation of the Chapter.1. The Fifth International Confer-

ence “Broadcast & Communica-tions” (Moscow, Exhibition Cen-ter “Sokolniki”, 10-13 February2003). The conference sessionsare prepared in association withInternational Broadcasting Con-

vention (IBC) which organizes awell-known broadcast exhibitionand conference in Amsterdam.The conference sessions will beorganized in 3 tracks. One dayof the conference (11 February2003) will represent a specialsession “IBC Presents an Inter-national Perspective of GlobalBroadcasting Issues” that willfully consist of IBC speakers.

2. . The Fourth TelecommunicationSymposium “Mobile Communi-cations - Advanced Technologiesand Services” (St.Petersburg,9-11 June 2003).

3. The Conference of Saint Peters-burg IEEE Chapters (St.Peters-burg, 10 – 12 June 2003).

4. Possible participation in organiz-ing a special session on Broad-band Systems at the Interna-tional Symposium on Signals,Circuits and Systems ( Iasi, Ro-mania, July 2003).

5. Participation in the RegionalChapter Chairs Conference ofthe EAME Region Chapters ofthe IEEE Communications Soci-ety (Rimini, Italy, 22 – 23 Sep-tember 2003).

6. A number of seminars on imple-mentation of Digital TV and Ra-dio are going to be held in St.Petersburg at the premises ofthe MART company and to bereported to the IEEE BroadcastTechnology Society.

Who’s WhoIn the continuing series of

Who’s Who on the BTS AdvisoryCommittee we introduce E. LannyNass, newly appointed Treasurer ofthe Broadcast Technology Society.

Lanny is Spectrum Manager forViacom Inc., with an office in Wash-ington, DC. He is involved with themanagement of all FCC licenses, theoversight of FCC compliance, andproviding engineering consultingservices for all divisions and subsid-iaries of the corporation.

Prior to joining Viacom, (previ-ously Westinghouse and CBS) in1996, he was employed at the Ad-

vanced Television Test Center(1994 - 1996), Charlotte DTV FieldTest Project (1994), and Director ofEngineering for WKBN Broadcast-ing Corporation, licensee of a tele-vision, and several AM and FM ra-dio stations in Ohio and Michiganand Sygnet Communications, li-censee of a cellular and paging sys-tem in Northeast Ohio and WesternPennsylvania (1982 – 1994). Hewas also owner and operator of acommercial sound reinforcementcompany in Youngstown, Oh.

Lanny attended YoungstownState and Kent State Universities in

Ohio. He is a member of theAFCCE, IEEE, IEEE BTS AdvisoryBoard and a member of SBE. He isalso an Assistant Editor of the BTSNewsletter and “Compiler” of theBrain Teaser column. He is a holderof a U.S. patent to incorporate GPSinto cellular phones for the purposeof determining exact location forhand-off as well as 911 services.

Lanny resides with his wife and“her” 3 cats in Woodbridge, Virginia.He is an instrument rated privatepilot and holder of amateur radio li-cense N8IZR. He also enjoys skiingand home remodeling projects.

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IEEE Broadcast Technology Society

16 January 2003National Association of Broadcasters

Washington, DC

Participants: Not Present:

Rich BibyJules CohenCharles EinolfThomas M. GurleyDavid Harris

(part-time by phone)William HayesTheodore KuligowskiDavid LayerWilliam MeintelE.Lanny NassSid ShumateTom SillimanAlan RosnerApril Nakamura

Mark KrivocheevValentin TrainottiWalter CicioraRobert BakerTim CarrollDmitry TkachenkoEric WandelSusan Crawford

Meeting Called to Order 10:30 AM1. Review and Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes

Minutes of October 9, 2002, Meeting Approved2. President’s Report

Key Issues:a. BDO Seidman Report

i. There is concern among IEEE volunteers overthe level of complexity and cost that seems toexist in the IEEE infrastructure. The BDOstudy was initiated by TAB because mostIEEE income is derived from TAB, and therehave been cost overruns in recent years thathave diminished reserves. Several areas of im-provement were recommended, and changesare being implemented. Lack of trust was pos-sibly the overriding problem found.

ii. Cost of Membership(1) IEEE feels dues should cover the cost of

Membership. A TAB committee has beenbreaking down these costs. (See Topic 5.)

b. BTS IssuesT. Gurley enumerated several key issues for con-sideration by the AdCom at this meeting:i. Travel expense budgetingii. Relationship with CES

(1) ATSC representation(2) Transaction Scope overlap

iii.Newsletter Editor searchiv.Upcoming Society and Publications Reviews

The Society is scheduled to have its 5 year re-view at the November 2003 TAB meetings.There will also be a Publications review.

v. Strategic PlanningThere is a recognized need to establish goalsfor committees and representatives to otherorganizations.

vi.CCIP (Committee on Communications and In-formation Policy)This year, the committee will focus on issuesrelated to Spectrum policy. We should haveactive representation on the committee duringthe year as this is an issue that affects the in-terests of the BTS Membership.

vi.StandardsNeed volunteers to revive dormant projects.

vii. MembershipOutreach to lost members;Identify reasons and improve retention andgrowth numbers.

viii. TutorialsWe will host tutorials at both NAB and possi-bly IBC.

T. Gurley announced the sad piece of news thatTom Mann passed away 18 December. He was anEditor of the Transactions on Broadcasting in pastyears. He worked for Jules Cohen at one time andhad been in engineering management at a numberof television stations. He was director of engineeringfor USA Broadcasting.

3. T. Gurley and the AdCom expressed sincere grati-tude to Alan Rosner for his two years of service asthe Society Treasurer during particularly tryingtimes. A warm welcome was extended to LannyNass who has accepted the position of Society Trea-surer.

4. Treasurer’s Report (Lanny Nass):a. Treasurer’s report was delivered with all main

points listed in a hand out: As of November 30,2002, total BTS assets were $63K; liabilities were$10K; net worth was $53K. Reserve is down$172K from last year’s reserve of $225K. Networth of BTS LLC was $164K, nearly all of whichis now being transferred to BTS. Figures do notreflect recent partial income realized for IBC2002of approximately $54K.

b. Alan Rosner asked that AdCom keep in mindthat there are two entities related to BTS Fi-nances (BTS & LLC, through which the IBC reve-nue flows). The result of the system is that theSociety deficit-spends all year and gets themoney back at the end of the year. Most of theIBC income is put into the LLC the year AFTERthe conference, so the money from IBC does notreach the BTS budget until the following year.

c. Note the Cost of Membership spreadsheet en-courages unbundling of publications but doesNOT include information regarding other sourcesof income.

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d. Alan Rosner extended his personal thanks toLanny Nass for taking over the position of Trea-surer.

e. Information on the close of the 2002 BTS Sympo-sium budget is not yet available.

f. The balance in the report does not include theyear-end income from IBC. That amount is at-tached in a separate spreadsheet.

g. Travel Budgeti. Our travel expenses are allocated across sev-

eral categories. This year, we budgeted $60Kfor the “AdCom and Other” category, and wespent $80K. A good portion of that was spenton travel. Since we can’t be assured that IBCrevenue will always cover us, this is somethingthat should be addressed.(1) Yiyan Wu would like to travel to Broadcast

Asia to deliver a paper in 2003. This hasbeen conditionally approved. Last year,the entourage to staff the membershipbooth at BA cost approximately $10K, butthe travel group is expected to be smallerthis year. Dr. Wu has been asked to pro-vide a budget.

(2) Mike Bennett has requested to travel to NAB.h. The 2003 budget shows:

i. Membership Committee Budget: $7.4Kii. Total Committee and Other: $95Kiii.There has been an increase from $68.9K to

$95.3K.iv.A large category that was increased was the

“AdCom” Committee Expense line.v. The other categories stayed the same except:

$4K increase for the Standards Committeeand $6K for possible ATSC dues.

vi.The specific events such as Broadcast Asiacome out of Membership Committee andOther and are more visible in the accounting.This year, we’ve tried to be very accurate sothat in future years, we can create a budgetthat accurately reflects the costs that are be-ing assessed to that area.

i. Travel FundingTravel funding has always been approved on anad-hoc basis. . The IEEE travel policy leaves thepayment of the expenses up to the Society. T. Gur-ley began a discussion as to whether some guide-lines should be developed, or whether approval fortravel should continue on an ad-hoc basis.i. The question was raised regarding what kind

of return does IEEE expect to see for the travelto the future meetings? Is the participation ofan AdCom committee member at a meetingsufficient? How much money should be ex-pended to support the IBC revenue?

ii. It was determined there should be some basicrules to establish types of travel and what isexpected for that time spent on travel. Arethere intangible benefits, membership growth,potential income? J. Cohen suggested that itwould make sense to establish some criteriafor what justifies travel to a specific event. B.Meintel suggested that there should be a fol-

low up report in addition to a justification be-fore travel.

iii.Bill Hayes: A policy would also give a sense ofcontinuity to the decisions of travel funding. Itwould not be a subjective standard.

iv.Sense of the Board: If IEEE is paying for youto go there, IEEE business is what you’rethere to do. There should be requirementsclearly laid out before the travel occurs.

j. A Motion was made that the President develop atravel request form that people requesting BTStravel reimbursement submit before travel. Mo-tion Seconded (C. Einolf). Friendly Amendment(T. Silliman): Add to the form that a formal reportbe submitted after the trip to summarize thetravel. J. Cohen suggested the form should in-clude the traveler’s justification of the travel.There would be an understanding that thiswould become a procedure over time with a listof criteria developed.i. Alan Rosner: A. Nakamura should look at all

IEEE travel regulations to make sure that wecomply with all requirements.

k. Motion Approved unanimously as: “BTS developa travel request form that includes the travelers’justification for the travel and includes a trip re-port after the travel.”

5. Cost of Membership/Business SimplificationProcessPeter Staecker has headed up this committee andwill continue to chair this committee after he be-comes TAB treasurer. At the request of the AdCom,Alan Rosner will continue to serve on this commit-tee. Peter submitted a series of PowerPoints whichaddressed the following items:a. Societies were asked to cover the cost of mem-

bership. IEEE informed BTS that the cost ofmembership was $45 and our dues were $15.The BTS AdCom rejected a plan to increase thecost each year until the membership dues were$45, and kept our dues at $15. We were not theonly Society that wanted to be able to subsidizemembership.

b. At its June 2002 meeting, TAB approved the fol-lowing motion: “That TAB endorses the conceptthat, in general, member fees and prices shouldat least cover the relevant variable costs. To thatend, each S/C will annually be provided with theappropriate variable costs and shall considerthem seriously in setting member fees andprices.” This asks Societies to cover the incre-mental cost of membership. The costs of mem-bership are divided into incremental costs andfixed costs. The total dues revenue should con-sider the reduced rates paid by special members.These costs should be guidelines and not man-dates. Individual Society business models will berespected.

c. A spreadsheet showing the costs of membershipwas distributed. The good news is that our Soci-ety incremental cost of membership is $14.74per member, and our dues are $15. Therefore,we cover our incremental cost of full-dues paying

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members. Our fixed costs are not covered withdues, nor are our subsidized members. As anote, we have 13% of our membership in the Lifemember category, who pay half dues.

d. The items that we may need to address in the fu-ture are increasing the dues to account for theLife members, and possible increases in theIEEE Xplore® cost. It looks like IEEE Xplore®costs will be about $5K based on usage of othersimilar Societies.

e. Questions that were raised included: How muchwould the dues need to be increased to make thedues cover the Life members. J. Cohen statedthat he is a Life member, but he pays the volun-tary contribution every year. He questionedwhether that contribution is credited to BTS.

f. This is an item to keep in mind during the up-coming months as we prepare the 2004 budget.

6. Business Rules SimplificationThere are a series of items that could greatly re-duce cost:a. Encourage Web-Renewalb. Do away with Membership Card or create a one

time or permanent card.c. Standardize across societies what reduced rates

are (for students, pubs) etc.7. Publications Committee Report (C. Einolf)

a. Committee meets monthly via teleconference.b. Website: Recently updated to match IEEE

website. Suggestions and comments are wel-come.

c. Newsletter: John Tollefson has resigned after es-tablishing and 10 years of single handedly pro-ducing the newsletter. The AdCom extends itssincere appreciation for his ten years of service.

d. Transactions EIC Report from Ted Kuligowski:e. 2002

i. The page budget was 408pp and exactly 408pages were printed. Three of four issues werein the mail on time.

ii. In 2002, we received 80 papers. The two previ-ous years, we received 74. The number ofout-of-scope papers was previously 30%, andthis year is running at 13%, but that numberwill soon go up as decisions are finalized. Thelargest issue was 130 pages, and an article fromthe December issue attracted attention fromseveral trade publications and newspapers.

f. 2003i. There are 8 papers approved for the March

2003 issue.ii. The budget for 2003 adds one paper of 12

pages per issue. We hope to add some papersin the cable and Internet area.

iii.Projected publication dates are Feb. 25, May22, August 21, and November 20. .

iv.The success of this work has been the resultof the publications office in Piscataway, withhelp from Kathy Colabaugh in particular. Theoffice sends out reminders and handles theadministrative needs.

v. There are currently 8 editors. Dr. Wu fromMotorola was not able to continue as an Asso-

ciate Editor due to his daily workload. Wewould like to increase the number of AssociateEditors from academia and continue tobroaden the scope of the papers. A concertedeffort has been made to clear out the old back-log. The Symposium presenters have been in-vited to write a paper.

g. Other Transactions issues: Three of the papersin the December issue dealt with reception. TheConsumer Electronics Society AdCom expressedconcern that the papers should have been pub-lished in their Transactions. They asked if theycould reprint those papers in the Transactionson Consumer Electronics and if, in the longterm, our societies could coordinate publicationof papers of interest to members of both.

h. The sense of the BTS AdCom is that we do referpapers to other transactions when we find thatthey are out of the scope of our transactions.However, two of the papers in question reflectedwork conducted by a broadcaster and, in gen-eral, broadcasters have a keen interest in recep-tion as an integral part of the end-to-end system.It might be useful for each of the transactions topublish a cross reference to papers of interest inother IEEE Transactions.

i. We might also explore joint publication of somepapers. This is possible within the boundaries ofthe IEEE publications rules and an interestingprospect to consider in the future.

j. T. Gurley noted that he is very pleased with theTransactions in the quality of the papers and thebroadening of the scope particularly in the Cablearea.

8. Society Reviewa. In connection with the TAB meetings in Seattle

in November, the Society will undergo thefive-year Society Review and a Publications Re-view. The 1999 Review was distributed to theAdCom and Ted was asked for his help with the2003 Review. The 2003 Template was includedin the AdCom Handout. The book with all re-sponses should be submitted to IEEE by October2003. Other than the NAB AdCom meeting, theonly AdCom meeting between now and then isthe June 2003 meeting. T. Gurley pointed outthat additional travel expenses will be incurredin connection with these reviews.

b. Ted Kuligowski agreed to be the Chair of the So-ciety Review Committee Team.i. The 1999 Society Review went pretty well. The

report was submitted and the reviewers en-couraged BTS to write a Society manual for fu-ture use. This is something we should put to-gether for this year’s Society Review.

ii. The Publications Review was difficult in 1999.The transactions was nearly subject to clo-sure. A number of action items were estab-lished. In response, Associate Editors wereadded and peer review was initiated.

iii.After the review, we should receive a responsewithin one month’s time.

9. Jules Cohen: COMAR meeting

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a. The most recent meeting of COMAR was held De-cember 13, 2002, at IEEE Headquarters inPiscataway, New Jersey.

b. One of the main activities of the committee re-lates to Technical Information Statements: oncethey are submitted they are reviewed by EMBSand published in the EMBS Transactions.(EMBS is the sponsor of COMAR).

c. Electromagnetic Sensitivity has been claimed bya number of individuals but laboratory testshave shown that such individuals cannot identifywhen they are in the presence of electromagneticfields. A COMAR paper has been written whichacknowledges the belief by some of the existenceof electromagnetic sensitivity, but provides nosupport for its existence.

d. Two COMAR meetings are held each year, one ofwhich is held in conjunction with the annualmeeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society.

10.ATSC Report: Y. Wu was unavailable but sub-mitted a report.a. Y. Wu attended the most recent ATSC board

meeting on Dec. 10. ATSC is working withCableLabs to harmonize the DASE and OCAP in-teractive TV standards, so set-top boxes canwork with both terrestrial and cable DTV appli-cations.

b. IEEE representation in ATSC: IEEE has a per-manent seat on the ATSC board. In the past,there was one dues payment for IEEE’s member-ship in ATSC, and BTS and CES alternatedyear-to-year which Society paid and representedIEEE on the board. Voting was always coordi-nated between the Society that had the boardseat and the other Society. ATSC changed duespolicy so that the dues were based on the reve-nue of IEEE as a whole. Our payment for 2003would have been $6200. ATSC agreed that forthe purpose of dues payment, it would base thedues on the revenue of each Society, providedthat each Society join separately. This wouldmake the dues $1500/year/Society. The gover-nance issues were left for IEEE to resolve. CESsuggested three options. 1: CES neither joins noris represented in ATSC; 2: Both Societies join butappoint a single representative to the board; 3:Only BTS joins, but CES reimburses us for halfof dues and expenses in return for our also rep-resenting them. Based on an e-mail poll of ourAdCom since its last meeting, we told CES thatOption 1 and Option 3 were preferred, and thatOption 2 was problematic. We were concernedthat it would create an “IEEE identity” issue be-tween BTS and CES acting individually at thecommittee level but with “one voice” of IEEE atthe board level. We are awaiting a decision fromCES as to which option they prefer.

11.CCIP and NTDC (R. Biby)a. The CCIP is a part of IEEE-USA which acts as a

lobbying committee. Dr. Judy Boggess of Cornellis the CCIP representative who deals with spec-trum policy. In 2003, spectrum policy is one ofthe potential areas that the committee will ex-

plore, and it appears to be their Number 1 prior-ity. This may be an issue of interest to our entireSociety. J. Cohen pointed out that computer in-terests have historically dominated CCIP, andthat broadcaster participation in the committeewas important to provide balance between com-puter and broadcasting interests. The computerindustry has a strong interest in securing addi-tional spectrum for wireless networks such asWi-Fi.

b. New Technology Directions Committee: R. Bibyagreed to remain on the committee, which issupposed to look over all IEEE technologies andsee if any technology is not being covered by oneof the Societies. They have identified displaytechnology as something that is not uniquely ad-dressed by a Society but that is of interest to anumber of Societies. They have proposed a “Dis-play Technology Council”. One of the BTS Stan-dards sub-committees is “Display Measure-ments”. So, we have a significant interest inparticipating in this Council, should it beformed.

12. Member and Chapter Development:a. BTS is sending out a letter and survey to the

members who didn’t renew. This letter didn’t goout in the fall, so we should send out the letterearly this year and include those who have notrenewed their 2003 membership. We need 10questions for use on the Survey. Suggestionsshould be submitted to April Nakamura as soonas possible.

b. A monthly spreadsheet is sent out to show mem-ber renewals. On the latest spreadsheet, as ofDecember 27th, about 230 members have re-newed IEEE membership, but have not renewedtheir BTS membership. This is getting near 10%of our membership already. We need to find outwhy people are not renewing their membership.

c. It has been suggested that membership fluctu-ates with industry controversy. Membership in-creased in the first half of the 1990s, when DTVwas being evaluated and rules were being putinto place, and has steadily decreased since thattime..

13. Education Committee:D. Harris reported by phone the activities he plansto undertake this year:a. Create a Database of educators in accredited BT

programs nationwide.b. Look into curriculum issues that can be ad-

dressed (especially laboratory experiments).c. Promote the interests of BTS in faculty and in

studentsd. Reactivate student paper contest.

i. The Clyde M. Hunt Memorial Student PaperAward was awarded one year but has not beengiven since. It would be great to re-activatethat. It takes only a handful of faculty mem-bers to get students active in submitting a pa-per. There are people out there who could de-velop an interest in broadcasting if they aredirected the right way. We may even find stu-

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dents who are interested in non-traditionalforms of broadcasting

ii. Establishing internships and summer posi-tions at BT firms and in manufacturing.

iii.Education Chair for SBE (the Society ofBroadcast Engineers) is interested in workingwith BTS and starting some joint projects.SBE is mainly interested in technical schoolsand technical programs.

14. Standards Report (W. Hayes)a. RF Standards

i. The committee is working on two Active PARsand has added a few people recently.

ii. It is in the process of acquiring two standardsfrom CEA that have been withdrawn.

iii.Last meeting was at the end of December.b. Audio/Video Standards (Alan Godber)

In the absence of Mr. Godber, T.Gurley reportedon activities of which he was aware:i. There are several subcommittees and projects

which have been dormant for a long time.ii. Two or three PARs were going to expire

12/2002. A.Godber has requested extensionsbut he does not have committee chairs forthese PARs.

iii.T. Carroll handles the Audio MeasurementsStandards. That group is currently pursuing aLip Sync error measurement.(1) There were a few simple methods that he

was planning to document for the stan-dard. However, more companies are nowinvolved and a SMPTE committee needs tocomplete its work before this standard canget underway. Tim expects to be workingon the Standard by the spring.

15. IBC 2002/2003 (W. Hayes)a. Tutorial: A tutorial is planned for one of the days

and W. Hayes has been working with Cisco on atutorial. Thales and Harmonic have been invitedto work with Cisco. A preliminary title is “VideoNetworking Seminar, Technologies and Architec-ture for Other than Broadcast” W. Hayes will pullall of the ideas together for a proposal that hewill submit to Conference Chair Martin Salter bythe end of the month.

b. IBC Update (Report submitted by Mike Bennett)i. The floor space sales are basically on track.

30K of 33K square meters budgeted have beensold.

16. NAB Convention (D. Layer)a. The successful camera display from last year will

not be available this year.b. The engineering conference will be in

N109-N111, which is near last year’s booth loca-

tion. However, the booth location for this year isnot definite. The worst that will happen is we’llget the same spot as last year, but we are tryingto move over to the even closer spot where theSBE booth was located. We can expect a 10x10booth. A meeting room request has been submit-ted to NAB for the AdCom meeting scheduled forTuesday night.

c. The IEEE has received a half-day for the tutorialon VSB Enhancements, but T. Gurley and D.Layer are considering requesting additional timeto add some more material related to ro-bust-mode transport stream issues.

17. BTS Symposiuma. Budget information from 2002 Symposium is not

yet available. This will contain expenditures andcosts for IEEE services.

b. The 2003 Symposium dates and location are notyet set.i. 1-3 October conflicts with NAB Radio Show,

8-10 October conflicts with SMPTE/WEBE,28- 30 October is the Iowa DTV seminar

ii. The Shoreham was very popular and JenniferTurso of IEEE CMS seemed to feel she wouldbe able to arrange the Shoreham for us.

iii.15-18 October is the date that we prefer,22-25 October also acceptable.

18. Elections (D. Layer)a. Ballot closes 17 Januaryb. Five members-at-large were listed as candidates.

19. Awards (D. Layer)a. There is a strong desire to offer a best transac-

tions paper award for this year. The publicationscommittee will be asked to choose a paper forthis award.

b. D. Layer will contact David Harris about the stu-dent paper award.

c. Siukola award ballots were submitted at theSymposium.

d. Fellows nominations: Of the 6 IEEE Fellow nomi-nations the Society has submitted in the past 3years, 5 have been approved. This is a very highpercentage.

e. Call for Papers for the Symposium will be sentout as soon as a Symposium location and dateare established.

20. Other business: None21. Next meeting: Paper review meeting will be

scheduled in June, the NAB meeting will be heldTuesday, April 8, from 5-8 in the conference roomdetermined by NAB.

22. Meeting Adjourned 3:56 PM

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Standards CornerBill Hayes

It is no secret that one of the keybenefits that members of the IEEEBroadcast Technology Society reapis access to the knowledge of theengineers and scientist that con-tribute to the Transactions onBroadcasting. There is also cer-tainly a benefit to the networkingwith other members that is avail-able when attending various meet-ings and conferences. However, thepurpose of the IEEE and its vari-ous societies is to create standardsthat will be used by the industriesrepresented. Unfortunately, mostmembers tend to sit on the sidelines and watch what happens andreally don’t participate in the pro-cesses. That is unfortunately a sadtruth not just with BTS but withmany of the professionalmembership organizations.

Since becoming the chairman ofthe RF Standards Committee Ihave had opportunities to discussparticipation in various projectswith a number of BTS members.Probably the most common reasonfor not wanting to become involvedin standards committee work is thecommitment of time. The percep-tion is generally that if I raise myhand to volunteer some time, it willquickly snowball and I will end upworking until all hours, I’ll be onthe committee forever, my kids willgrow up and I’ll miss it, my spousewill divorce me because we don’ttalk anymore and my friends in theindustry will hate me because Ihelped create a standard thatmakes their work more difficult.Perhaps I’m over dramatizing alittle but you get the point.

In RF Standards, we are workingon four projects at this time. Twoof the projects are DTV power mea-surements and DTV spectrummeasurements. The May 1, 2002

deadline has passed and a numberof DTV stations are on the air orwill be very soon. Interestinglyenough, there are no formal stan-dards for how we measure thein-band power in DTV transmit-ters. There are a number of meth-odologies being employed and I amnot arguing that any one is wrongbut there are a number of subtle-ties in the methods that if not rec-ognized and handled properly canlead to improper operation of atransmitter. The same is true inthe measurement of DTV spectrumuse and mask compliance. Thisone is probably even more complexand subject to interpretation sincethe vendors that manufacture themeasurement equipment haveadopted slightly different method-ologies for measuring mask com-pliance. Again I am not pointing atany one vendor and saying theirmethod is wrong or better for thatmatter, but they are different and ifthe end users don’t understand themethodology and process, it isquite easy to think a station is inmask compliance when in reality itis not and it is possible for a sta-tion to think it is out of compliancewhen it is not. Standards in theseareas provide an unambiguousmethod for measuring complianceusing approved methodologies thatwill insure that the signal leavingthe facility is as good as it can be.

I did mention four projects. Theother two are ones that we areworking on adopting from the EIAand they are the standards for an-alog television transmitters andanalog precision demodulators. Iknow that throughout our industrythere is an ongoing chant that ana-log is dead, long live digital. Beforewe seal the casket and start shov-eling in the dirt however, recognizeone simple fact, life is analog andbefore we forget everything we

know about it we should separatethe wheat from the chaff. After theReed-Solomon coding, the datarandomizing, and discrete cosinetransforms are done, the last thingwe do to our digital signal forbroadcast is run it through a reallybig digital to analog converter sowe can broadcast it. It would seemthat there is still a lot of value inunderstanding the analog past.Also, I’m not fully convinced that in2006 all NTSC analog stations willbe shutting down. I suspect thatwe’ll live with our analog transmit-ters for some time. Some of us willeven end up purchasing new ana-log transmitter which we will con-vert to digital when analog goesaway. I suspect that we’ll still wantto be able to monitor and measurethe performance of those deviceswhile they are in operation. That iswhy the RF Standards committeehas begun the process of reviewingthese standards and conformingthem to IEEE requirements.

So, what can you as a BTSmember do? Get involved in thestandards process. If you’re not in-terested in the RF area, the BTShas a very active audio and videostandards committee as well. Yourparticipation will be welcomed andin addition to contributing to theprocess that is the foundation ofthe organization to which you be-long, you’ll also learn a lot you did-n’t know and truly understand alot that you thought you knew. Ipromise it is not a life sentence,but it is something that many of usenjoy and will do for the rest of ourlives. If you have an interest in get-ting involved contact either AlanGodber (agodber@earthlink.net) ormyself (hayes@iptv.org) and we’llbe glad to help you find a place onthe team.

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Room 204 - The IEEE History CenterAssists in National HistoricLandmark Research

Beginning in March of 2001, theIEEE History Center has been as-sisting the National Park Serviceselect a technology-related site ap-propriate for nomination to gothrough the rigorous screeningprocess which will — the Park Ser-vice and the IHC hope — result ina landmark which pays tribute tothe importance of the history oftechnology. Because technology’snature is to develop, and modifica-tions are frequent to the equipmentand buildings where technology isdeveloped, it is difficult to find asite intact enough to satisfy thevery rigorous requirements for his-torical integrity. Having begun witha list of more than 230 sites of his-toric importance, the History Cen-ter was forced to eliminate most ofthem because little or nothing ofthe building or equipment remains.The shortlist of candidate sites in-cluded the site of Marconi’s trans-mission at the Navy Yard, Wash-ington, DC, the Victor factory andRCA buildings includingZworykin’s Lab, Camden, NJ; theRCA Princeton Lab, Princeton, NJ;Marconi sites at Camp Evans,Wall, NJ; the Western Union officein New York, NY, the Alexandersonalternator, Schenectady, NY;Zworykin’s iconoscope lab, Pitts-burgh, PA; Farnsworth’s San Fran-cisco lab, and the MarcellusHartley Dodge laboratory at Co-lumbia University whereArmstrong did much of his FM ra-dio work.

Digging through archives, mu-nicipal records, and in some casesby visiting the sites on foot, thestaff found that even many of theshort-list sites were found to be tooaltered to meet the criterion. Noth-ing remains of the Marconi mastsexcept the footings; of the fivebuildings remaining from the hugeRCA city-within-a-city in Camden,NJ, several are being turned intocondominiums, and none of themwas the building Zworykin’s labwas actually in, it having been de-

molished long before. Gradually,the Armstrong labs emerged as thestrongest intact candidate site.

Working with the gracious helpof the Columbia architects, whoprovided original plans of Philoso-phy Hall building, Robie Lange ofthe Park Service’s National HistoricLandmark Survey and IHC stafferRobert Colburn spent a day match-ing old photographs with plans,reading Armstrong’s papers, andinvestigating the building them-selves hoping to identify positively“the cluttered basement lab” wherethe regenerative circuit, the super-heterodyne receiver, and thesuperregenerative receiver wereconceived and developed. It waswith a feeling of some awe thatthey - guided by the architects -entered Room 204, and began tomatch the old photographs withthe room as It is now. Despite be-ing used currently as a mainte-nance room, the space itself hasnot been seriously altered, and it ispretty certain from photographsshowing Armstrong demonstratingequipment, that 204 was his labduring the 1920s. The HartleyLabs comprised more than oneroom, however, and it is knownfrom the description of some of theexperiments that multiple roomswere used. These rooms have beenrenumbered and walls have beenmoved since that time. Moresleuthing remains to be done to de-termine which specific FM ad-vances occurred in which rooms.Pupin’s magnificent dark-panelledoffice is still there.

The next step will be to preparea nomination, and we hope that, intime, the site of the MarcellusHartley Lab will become a NationalHistoric Landmark.

© November 2001 IEEE, Reprintedwith permission from the IEEE His-tory Center

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IEEE BROADCAST TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONIEEEGeneral Manager, IEEEDaniel J. Senese

IEEE445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331Piscataway. NJ 08855-1331Phone: (732) 562-5400Fax: (732) 981-1721E-Mail: d.senese@ieee.org

Staff DirectorIEEE Tech. Activities Managing DirectorMary Ward-Callan

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BTS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

(AdCom)

Terms expiring in 2002Walter S. Ciciora, Ph.D.

45 Hulls Farm RoadSouthport, CT 06490-1027203-259-5183fax 203-259-0556efax: 707-929-2181e-mail: walt@ciciora.com

or wciciora@aol.com

Dr. Charles W. Einolf Jr.

Deputy Executive DirectorAdvanced Television Tech. Ctr. (ATTC)1330 Braddock Place, Suite 200Alexandria, VA 22314-1650Tel: 703-739-3851Fax: 703-739-3230E-mail: ceinolf@attc.org

Dr. Mark Krivocheev

Chief Scientist Research Inst. (NIIR)16 Kazakova Street103064, Moscow, RussiaTel: +7 (095) 267-72-76Fax: +7 (095) 261-00-90E-mail: m_krivocheev@mail.tcnet.ru

Thomas Silliman,President, Electronics Research, Inc.7777 Gardner RoadChandler, IN 47610Tel: 812-925-6000Fax: 812-925-4030E-mail: tom@eriinc.com

Prof. Valentin Trainotti

C.I.T.E.F.A.Antenna & PropagationS.J.B. de Lasalle 4397, Villa Martelli1603 Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTel: +5411 4709 8226Fax: +5411 4709 8228E-mail: vtrainotti@ieee.org

vtrainotti@citefa.gov.ar

Terms expiring in 2003Robert S. BakerDirector of Electrical EngineeringTelevision Broadcast ProductsShively LabsRout 117Bridgton, ME 04009Tel: 207-647-3327Fax: 207-647-8273E-mail: rbaker@shively.com

Tim J. CarrollProduct Manager, Professional AudioDolby Laboratories, Inc.100 Potrero AvenueSan Francisco, CA 94103Tel: 415-645-5184Fax: 415-645-4000E-mail: tjc@dolbly.com

William T. HayesDirector of Engineering and TechnologyIowa Public Television6450 Corporate DriveJohnston, IA 50131Tel: 515-242-3116Fax: 515-242-4151E-mail: hayes@iptv.org

E. Lanny NassV.P., CBS Communications ServicesSpectrum Manager, Viacom Inc.CBS600 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.Washington, DC 20037-2403Tel: 202-457-4602Fax: 202-457-4615E-mail: elnass@cbs.com

Eric R. Wandel P.E.Director of Product DevelopmentElectronics Research, Inc.7777 Gardner RoadChandler, IN 47610Tel: 812-925-6000Fax: 812-925-4030E-mail: 812-925-4030

Terms Expiring in 2004Richard FriedelFOX Network Center10201 W. Pico Blvd Bldg 101Los Angeles, CAUnited States 90064 – 2606e-mail: RichardFr@fox.com

David H. LayerNat'l Association of Broadcasters (NAB)1771 N. Street NWWashington, DC 20036Phone: (202) 429-5339Fax: (202) 775-4981E-Mail: dlayer@nab.org

William MeintelTechWare, Inc.Suite 206, 14101 Parke Long Ct.Chantilly, VA 20151-1645Phone 703-222-5842Fax 703-222-5843E-Mail: wmeintel@computer.org

Alan RosnerDenny & Associates P.C.6444 Bock RoadOxon Hill, MD 20745-3001Phone: (301) 768 5602Fax: (301) 768-5620E-mail: arosner@denny.com

Dmitry A. TkachenkoSt.Petersburg State Technical UniversityRadio Eng. & Telecom. DepartmentDo vostrebovaniya194017 St.PetersburgRussiaPhone/Fax: +7 (812) 554-2982E-mail: dtkach@mail.wplus.net

BTS OFFICERSPresidentThomas M. GurleyAssociation for Maximum ServiceTelevision (MSTV)1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 310Washington, DC 20036Phone: (202) 861-0344Fax: (202) 861-0342E-Mail: tgurley@ieee.org

Vice PresidentDr. Charles W. Einolf Jr.(SEE ADCOM LISTING)

TreasurerAlan R. Rosner, P.E.(SEE ADCOM LISTING)

SecretaryThomas Silliman,(SEE ADCOM LISTING)

EX OFFICIO

Senior Past PresidentE. Bruce HunterInternational Broadcasting BureauDelano Transmitting Station11014 Melcher RoadDelano, California 93215Tel: 616-816-4136E-mail: e.b.hunter@ieee.org

Junior Past PresidentGarrison C. CavellCavell, Mertz, & Davis7839 Ashton AvenueManassas, VA 20109Ph:+1 703 392 9090Fax:+1 703 392 9559e-mail: gcavell@cmdconsulting.com

AdministratorApril NakamuraIEEE Technical Activities445 Hoes LanePiscataway, NJ 08855 - 1331Ph: +1 732 562-3846Fax: +1 732 981 1769E-mail: a.nakamura@ieee.org

STANDING COMMITTEES &REPRESENTATIVES

Advanced Television SystemsCommittee (ATSC)Yiyan WuCommunications Research Center3701 Carling AvenuePost Office Box 11490Station H, Ottawa, OntarioCanada K2H 8S2Phone: (613) 998-2870Fax: (613) 990-6488E-Mail: yiyan.wu@crc.doc ca

Awards, Nominations and PublicityDavid H. Layer(SEE ADCOM LISTING)

Committee on Man and Radiation(COMAR)Jules CohenConsulting Engineer2111 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 600Arlington, VA 22201-3052Phone: (703) 351-5033Fax: (703) 351-5830E-Mail: jcohen@denny.com

EducationF. David Harris, P.E.Engineering Technology Dept.Western Washington UniversityBellingham, WA 98225Voice: 360-650-7703Fax: 360-650-4847E-mail: fdh@cc.wwu.edu

HistorianE. Noel Luddy11121 Hurdle Hill DrivePotomac, MD 20854Phone: (301) 299-2270Fax: (301) 299-2670E-Mail: luddyen@aol.com

IBC RepresentativeGerald A BermanApril to November11430 Strand Drive, Apt. #4North Bethesda, Maryland 20852Phone/Fax 301-881-57507November to March2900 NW 42 Ave, Apt A-108Coconut Creek, FL 33066Tel: (954) 977-2801E-Mail: g.a.berman@worldnet.att.net

IBC RepresentativeMike Bennett55 Valley RdNewbury Berkshire, RG146HN UKFax: +44 163 552 8247Phone: +44 777 163 7866e-mail: mkebennett@supanet.com

ParliamentarianSusan N. CrawfordFCC/MMB/ASD445 12th Street NWWashington, DC 20554Phone: (202) 418-2754Fax: (202) 418-1411E-Mail: scrawfor@fcc.gov

Membership and Chapter DevelopmentRobert S. Baker(SEE ADCOM LISTING)

Membership Booth – NAB ConventionWilliam T. Hayes(SEE ADCOM LISTING)

Membership Booth – Int'l Broadcast Conv.William T. Hayes

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Membership Booth - Broadcast Asia Conv.Yiyan Wu

(SEE STANDING COMMITTEE &REPRESENTATIVES LISTING)

PACETheodore J. Kuligowski

Cavell Mertz & Davis, Inc.10300 Eaton Place, Suite 200Fairfax, VA 22030Phone: (703) 591-0110Fax: (703) 591-0115E-Mail: t.kuligowski@ieee.org

PUBLICATIONS CHAIRDr. Charles W. Einolf Jr.

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Newsletter EditorWilliam Meintel

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Assistant Newsletter EditorE. Lanny Nass

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Transactions EditorTheodore Kuligowski

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WebmasterAlicia Tomaszewski

IEEE445 Hoes Lane, P0 Box 1331Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331Phone: (732) 562-3904E-Mail: a.tomaszewski@ieee.org

Society on Social Implications ofTechnologyTheodore Kuligowski

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Standards -Audio and Video TechniquesAlan S Godber

P.O Box 310Millton, NJ 08850Phone/FAX: (732) 846-4476E-Mail: agodber@earthlink.net

Standards - RF TechniquesWilliam T. Hayes(SEE ADCOM LISTING)

Strategic PlanningEric R. Wandel P.E.

Director of Product DevelopmentElectronics Research, Inc.7777 Gardner RoadChandler, IN 47610Tel: 812-925-6000Fax: 812-925-4030E-mail: Eric@eriinc.com

Technical ActivitiesEdmund A. Williams

Public Broadcasting ServiceEngineering Department1320 Braddock PlaceAlexandria, VA 22314Phone: (703) 739-5172Fax: (703) 739-5770E-Mail: ewilliams@pbs.org

TAB New Technology DirectionsRichard Biby

Biby Engineering, P.C.200 North Glebe Road 10th FloorArlington, VA 22203Phone: (703) 558-0505Fax: (703) 558-0523E-mail: rich@biby.com

Yearbook EditorKerry Cozad

P.O. Box 94922 Tower RoadRaymond, ME 04071Phone: (207) 655-8133Fax: (207) 655-7120|E-Mail: kerry.cozad@dielectric.com

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.445 Hoes LaneP.O. Box 1331Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331

Brain TeaserBy Lanny Nass

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Email answers to elnass@cbs.com

Answers to the teasers in the last issue are:

Question 1: Since the ship is afloat, the water level in relation to the ship stays the same. There-fore, 6 feet are above the water at the end of the period, just as at the beginning.

Question 2: Three hours and three minutes. Once the amoeba in the first jar has reproduced itself(a process that takes three minutes) that jar is at the same point at which the secondjar started. The only difference is that it is three minutes behind.

Question 3: The purpose of the 4th chime on the NBC set of chimes was intended as an alert fornational emergencies.

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