Sometimes you just walk into a trade show booth and have a tough time believing your eyes. That was my reaction at the Broadcast Microwave Services booth. There I saw HD video being transmitted from a roving camera with the company’s new 16MHz channel (dual 8MHz channel) high-def camera back transmitter. To say the images were stunning is an understatement, especially when you find out the video being transmitted was of two camera models giving a third a message over at the Thomson booth.

But that wasn’t the only pleasant surprise at the BMS booth. Right in the center of the booth attached to the top of a laptop computer was a two-channel diversity receiver with two antennas attached. Somehow, this handy little receiver missed my watchful eye at NAB.

Setting up this receiver is a matter of installing the BMS-developed Windows software application on the laptop and plugging the receiver into a laptop USB port, from which it draws power. Pop-up data of critical parameters and waveforms of the video being transmitted overlay the received video on the laptop display. Imagine using this diversity receiver to help a camera operator stay in range as he walks around his coverage area.

I spoke with BMS Europe Managing Director Rainer Horn about the diversity receiver and its applications in this podcast.

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