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LPB Web Site Gone

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RadioMan203

For anybody who may need old documents from the former LPBInc.com (Low Power Broadcasting) web site I figured I'm mention that the domain expired and the site is unreachable even when using the IP address directly.

I needed some documents for an old S-14 console and I was fortunate enough to pull them out of Google's cache. If you need something from their old site I wouldn't wait too long as Google's cache is now reflecting the fact that the domain is banked on a GoDaddy server.
 
Bill DeFelice said:
I had tried Archive.org but many of the pdf's showed up as unavailable.
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I find that trying multiple dates often produces the best results. It seems that they don't always get everything on a site for every backup. Sometmes, websites do use scripts that prevent archive.org from properly indexing them, though.
 
drded said:
LPB was sold to Sandies.
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That's not correct. LPB sold the Dynamax console line to Dave Strode back in September 2007. This article in Radio Magazine details the transaction.

LPB itself fell on hard times and I believe there are several old threads discussing the fact that LPB apparently stiffed customers on equipment and never returned their funds. Rumor has it that they were conducting business under a different name and state but few had success finding them.
 
I'm experiencing deja vu all over again. Mr. De Felice, Mr. drded...you both linked to the same article! Aren't Sandies and Dave Strode one and the same?
 
Well, you might still be able to buy Dynamax consoles, but the low powered AM transmitters for TIS stations was the product that kept LPB afloat until the Devecka family sold it. You might try finding John D. at Loyola University where he staffs. He also usually attends the NAB show each year. If anyone would have the manuals or know where ot find them, he'd be the one.
 
I'm confused. LPB had their own line of LPB consoles. Fidelipac had Dynamax. Sandies bought Dynamax console line.

What am I missing?
 
ironbear said:
I'm experiencing deja vu all over again. Mr. De Felice, Mr. drded...you both linked to the same article! Aren't Sandies and Dave Strode one and the same?
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Yes, Sandies USA was started and is operated by Dave Strode, a former LPB employee. The point I was attempting to make was that Strode's company is not the old LPB Inc. BTW: I didn't even notice the message previous to mine had linked to the same article.

Bill Wolfenbarger said:
I'm confused. LPB had their own line of LPB consoles. Fidelipac had Dynamax. Sandies bought Dynamax console line.

What am I missing?
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Here's what you might have missed, courtesy of Barry Mishkind's oldradio.com web site. His LPB Equipment Archive page states "... After being bought by Tom Spadea in 1999, the company [LPB Inc.] acquired Fidelipac in 2000." I believe it was May of 2000 this transaction took place.

LPB had both their line of consoles as well as the Fidelipac product line which included the Dynamax consoles. Dave Strode took over the Dynamax console line and no other products from the former LPB Inc.
 
I guess I did miss that one. Thank you. It's hard to keep track of the transactions as broadcast product manufacturers change hands due to changes in technology and in some cases retirement and death. I still have an LPB ten-channel and a five-channel battleship, 1986 vintage. It was hard to break those things.

I had followed the rise and fall of Tapecaster some years ago as Auditronics picked it up, then sold it, then Tapecaster went down, and Steve repossessed what was left. I bought the remnants of Tapecaster, moved the finished goods, work in progress, and parts, to the West Coast. Sixteen years later I still have a myriad of Tapecaster parts in case anyone wants to go retro and build one! No motors though; they were the first items to run out of. Oh, and the brass pieces went to the recycler. Come to think of it, if someone showed up at my door, they might possibly leave with a trunk full of free stuff.
 
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