Topics are listed in alphabetical order. If you have a suggestion for additional topics, or if you are a Sustaining Member and want to suggest a topic, please contact the SBE. Not a Sustaining Member? Learn more.
Good programs bring good attendance. Good attendance creates a healthy chapter. Healthy chapters mean a healthy SBE. So start planning your next meeting!
Several SBE Sustaining Member companies are available to present at chapter meetings as well.
- AC power generator maintenance
- AC power to a new site
- Acoustics
- ATSC 3.0
- Audio processors
- BAS technical issues
- Certification Program by SBE
- Combiners for DTV
- Combiners for IBOC
- Coverage maps and signal analysis
- Datacasting in radio
- Datacasting in TV
- Demos of test equipment, tools, etc.
- Desktop audio
- Desktop video, NLE
- Digital rights management
- Disaster preparedness logistics: staying on the air, emergency event coverage
- Documentation methods used to catalog a studio wiring database
DVD - EAS technology and equipment, your local plan
- Electrical code issues for broadcasters; the UL standard for broadcast equipment
- ENG products
- ENG wireless coordination
- Engineer – Who can use the term? Attempted regulation by state governments
- Facility construction
- Facility security
- FCC forms, filling them out
- FCC inspection preparation: what do they look for? (presented by your local FCC field office inspector)
- FCC positions and challenges
- Fiber optic systems
- FM antenna theory; bandpass filter and combiner theory
- Frequency coordination
- History of broadcasting
- History of the SBE
- Hold a joint meeting with another group (AES, SMPTE, SCTE, etc.)
- Hold a social event: provide food; invite family members
- HVAC
- IBOC/HD Radio
- Lightning protection, surge arrestors, grounding techniques
- Local area networks (LANs)
- Microwave paths and equipment
- NAB Convention report by someone who attended
- New developments in digital audio broadcasting (DAB)
- New developments in high definition television (HDTV)
- NRSC-2 compliance measurement techniques
- OSHA standards for broadcasters
- PC troubleshooting, service and maintenance
- Personal report on an interesting remote broadcast or overseas trip
- Power safety
- Practical solutions for HDTV transmission
- Public speaking instruction
- Radio automation solutions
- Remote transmission methods
- RF safety compliance
- Round table discussion
- Server-based technology
- Studio ergonomics
- Studio wiring techniques
- Technology cost management
- Tour a cellular telephone switching office
- Tour a local broadcast facility
- Tour a local utility facility
- Tour a national weather service facility or local emergency management facility
- Tour a sports or convention facility
- Tower stress analysis
- Transmitter monitoring and measurement
- Transmitters
- Video analog to digital conversion
- Video automation solutions
- Video presentation from the SBE Video Library
- Voice over IP
- Voltage regulators and stand-by power
