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Engineering, and Sports Emmy Awards for his work
with Dolby E, television Audio Processing, and the
Beijing, Vancouver, and London Olympic Games. He
is a member of AES, ASA, IEEE, SBE, and SMPTE, and
is an active participant in the work of the ATSC. He
holds multiple patents in the field of television audio
and data and currently resides with his patient wife
and family in California.
Ron Castro (Chapter
7.19) is the Chief Technical Offi-
cer and part owner of Results Radio, LLC, a chain of
small-market FM stations in northern California. He
started as an air personality and engineer in Pennsyl
-
vania in 1966 and later joined the US Navy as a Com-
munications Technician. After working in Honolulu
and San Francisco, he became the owner of a small
FM station in Santa Rosa, California. Ron is a resident
of Petaluma, CA, an active ham radio operator (call-
sign N6IE), holder of an FCC Lifetime General Class
Radiotelephone license, and a member of the Society
of Broadcast Engineers. Ron’s most recent published
work is “FM Translators and Boosters” from the NAB
Engineering Handbook, 10th Edition.
Cindy Hutter Cavell (Chapters
5.3, 6.2) joined Cavell
Mertz & Associates in 2010, after spending 15 years at
NBC and ABC News (traveling with Presidents Rea
-
gan and G.H.W. Bush, for three Olympic Games for
three technical Emmy Awards, and on weird remotes
to strange countries), a few years as a Chief Engineer
at major market TV stations for Hearst, Gannett, and
Fox, a stint in Houston as GM of the Fox Sports Net
technical playout center, and at Sprint as Director of
Engineering for the 2GHz BAS Relocation Project.
Cindy works primarily with TV clients on TV Spec-
trum Re-Pack issues, as well as doing pre-purchase
due diligence (and post-purchase cleanup), workflow
analysis, and TV station technical design/build. Addi-
tionally, she designed and managed the construction
of a 670-mile, bi-directional, 37-hop microwave system
from Aurora, IL, to Carteret, NJ, which was built for a
financial trading client.
Richard Chernock, ScD (Chapter
5.10) is currently
Chief Science Officer at T
riveni Digital. Previously, he
was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research, inves-
tigating digital broadcast technologies. He is chair of
the ATSC Technology Group on ATSC 3.0 (TG3) and
chairs the AHG on service delivery and synchroniza-
tion for ATSC 3.0. He was previously chair of the ATSC
Technology and Standards Group (TG1). He is also the
Distinguished Lecturer Chair for IEEE BTS and a mem-
ber of FOBTV.
In another life, Richard used transmission elec-
tron microscopy to study materials characteristics for
advanced ceramics packaging and semiconductor
technology at IBM. His ScD is from MIT in the field of
nuclear materials engineering.
Kenneth E. Colwell (Chapter
7.7) holds a PhD from
the University of Iowa in instructional
design and
technology. He is also a Certified Senior Radio Engi-
neer, Digital Radio Broadcast Specialist, and a Certi-
fied Broadcast Networking Technologist by the Society
of Broadcast Engineers. He is a Professor of Commu-
nication at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, and
is the Director of the Ambrose Communication Center
and General Manager of KALA(FM).
He has worked in broadcasting since 1969, getting
his First Class Radiotelephone license in
1971.
He has worked in both commercial and non-
commer
cial broadcasting and served as chief engineer
of WQUA, Moline, IL, KRVR(FM), Davenport, IA, and KALA(FM), Davenport,
IA.
Ken is a member of the Society of Broadcast Engi-
neers, the
Audio Engineering Society, and several
academic organizations. He also is an Amateur Extra operator and ARRL VE, with call sign
N9CI.
Bobby Cox, PhDEE (Chapter 7.9), is a Senior Staff
Engineer with Kintronic Laboratories, wher
e he has
been employed since 1994. He holds a BSEE 1989, MEE 1991, and PhDEE 1994 from Mississippi State University. His graduate studies specialized in classi- cal electromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, signal processing, and communications. His doctoral dissertation involved NEC modeling of an electrically large antenna structure and design of an exponen- tially tapered transmission line antenna. He has been a Member of IEEE since 1985. At Kintronic Laboratories, he is responsible for the design engineering, project management, production details, and testing of hun- dreds of medium wave (AM) antenna systems, both domestic and international. His work includes low, medium, and high-power directional arrays; mul- tiplexed stations; LF and VLF matching networks; custom high-power RF components; co-location of broadcast facilities; and military mobile broadcast antenna systems. He specializes in numerical model- ing of unusual antenna configurations.
Aldo G. Cugnini (Chapter
2.7) is a technology and
business consultant who has held various technical and
management positions at Philips Electronics and else-
wher
e. While at Philips, Aldo had a leadership role in
the development of the ATSC digital television system
(and its progenitor, the “Grand Alliance” digital HDTV
system), and was a key member of the Advanced Tele-
vision Research Consortium (ATRC) HDTV develop-
ment team. He was also project manager for the MSTV
Terrestrial Digital Converter Box Project, which made
possible the highly successful NTIA TV Converter Box
Coupon Program.
Aldo received his BS and MS
from Columbia Uni-
versity
, is an inventor on 13 patents in the fields of
digital television and broadcasting, with two more pending, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Technology Center. Prior to his DTV work, Aldo developed various audio, content delivery, and RF technologies at Broadcast Technology Partners and CBS Laboratories, and provided prod- uct support and field engineering at RCA Broadcast