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FREE HD Radio Training

J

JRZFM100

The Harris Broadcast training center in Quincy offers a four day class dedicated to HD Radio Technology. While the Harris website advertises the cost of this class at ~$1800, I've recently discovered the class is being offered absolutely free of charge.

Seems like a great deal!! I believe that Harris said they would even provide a few meals.

The next HD training is set for May 17-20th in Quincy.

For more details or to register, contact Mark Goins, [email protected].
 
Nice commercial for Harris.

Good grief, what's next?

A thread titled, "BSW has a limited-time special on JK Audio Innkeepers, $100 off list??"
 
More like "DSW has a sale on some great shoes for dxing! I love them and you will too - here's a link..."

Very, very cheesy - "JRZFM". ::)
 
I just got an e-mail blurb from Harris inviting me to their NAB booth.

For the first time in recent memory, nothing is said at all about HD Radio. Instead, Harris is highlighting Mobile DTV, 3DTV, Citizen Journalism, Live Sports and Entertainment, Content Management, and even Radio Consoles.

I'm registered to attend the show as a radio guy -- so, if this is a targeted e-mail campaign, the fact that digital radio wasn't even mentioned is significant.
 
My mention of free HD training available at the Harris Braodcast Training Center was not meant to endorse, promote, advertise or sell any Harris PRODUCT. Training is a SERVICE, and since it is free of charge, there is no selling here. The poster is not afiliated with Harris Corp in any way.

I've been trying to attend HD training for five years - these classes always cancel due to lack of intrest and enrolment. This HD training class is certainly not well promoted, and its availability at 'no-charge' virtually unknown. I'd simply like to discover if 4~5 others in the community might be interested to enroll so a training class might actually be able to run in May. This might be a great time to attend the course given the rule change and that power increase is a hot topic.

During previous HD classes that have run, I'm told that Harris has brought in outside experts to speak and present on HD topics beyond HD theory and Harris harware. I've been told that ERI and Dielectric have come in to present on antenna considerations for HD. This would be very informative. I'd love the opportunity to have in-person dialog with two antennae vendors in the same room at the same time regarding HD considerations for master antennae and combiner operation. (We could clarify some poorly understood combining issues and differing opinions.)

To be fair, Broadcast Electronics has recently announced on its website (bdcast.com) that they will conduct their first HD training class in Quincy this summer. Doug Koehn is your contact at BE. I do not believe their course is available without charge. Please consult Doug.

Finally, I know of only five TOTAL resources for education on HD technology. Three books published by Focal Press (authored by Thomas Ray, David Maxson, and the NAB engineering handbook - 10th edition), and the instructor led training at Harris and now BE.

Five educational resources for a new and disruptive technology like HD is not a lot of information given the complexity, rapid evolution and lack of maturity of the technology. I don't believe that any or all of these rescouces provide sufficiently complete coverage of this technology.

Having reviewed the literature, including the reference books mentioned above and Ibiquity's white papers, and having signed on HD stations, I'd still like to know more about HD technology.

In this post I have made every attempt to be fair in mentioning the various training options and published materials for IBOC/HD education. Should anyone know of additional resources for technical education in HD, please post a reply.
 
Excuse me: the "free HD training" from Harris is the radio engineering equivalent of those guys who collar you as you get off the cruise ship on some Caribbean Island, offering you a free lobster dinner. They then haul you off to some remote location where a plate is deposited in front of you, and you can't leave until you've been subjected to a high-pressure timeshare pitch.

Sure: come to Quincy at your own expense! We'll buy you a sub sandwich and pound HD Radio into you, so hopefully you'll wiggle back home and convince your technically-clueless management what a great idea it is.
It's just another trick Harris is trying to get a few sales going, and essentially costs them nothing.

I would predict the profound indifference industrywide to HD will continue.
 
Savage said:
Excuse me: the "free HD training" from Harris is the radio engineering equivalent of those guys who collar you as you get off the cruise ship on some Caribbean Island, offering you a free lobster dinner. They then haul you off to some remote location where a plate is deposited in front of you, and you can't leave until you've been subjected to a high-pressure timeshare pitch.

Sure: come to Quincy at your own expense! We'll buy you a sub sandwich and pound HD Radio into you, so hopefully you'll wiggle back home and convince your technically-clueless management what a great idea it is.
It's just another trick Harris is trying to get a few sales going, and essentially costs them nothing.

I would predict the profound indifference industrywide to HD will continue.
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What Harris and BE are doing sounds typical for hardware manufacturers.

I used to get this all the time from Sony and Panasonic Broadcast Divisions, especially as DTV was rolling out. They would entice you to attend a workshop by promising to explain all about the DTV transition and it ended up just being a pitch for how their products fit into a production workflow.

It was, "come for the lunch, stay for the pitch."

c5
 
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