The Foreign Chapter of Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines Inc. – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Western Region Chapter conducted its 4th technical seminar titled RF DISTRIBUTION on July 21, 2017 at Boracay Restaurant, Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. The event was attended by thirty-eight Electronics Professionals from various parts of the Western Region, such as Jeddah, Makkah, Taif and Yanbu, Thuwal and Abha.
It started at 8 am in the morning, where our Chapter President Engr. Lamberto Reyes had his opening remarks and introduce the respected guest speaker Engr. Gerardo Dimaunahan from Institute of Electrical Engineer of the Philippines. He is a Professional Electrical Engineer, former IEE Chapter President 2006 and a RF communication specialist for 28 years in Saudi Arabia.
Engr. Gerardo Dimaunahan started the discussion about RF Distribution on which he discussed the following points: how the satellite signals are being received (TVRO – TV receive Only) from the satellite transmission, the functions of each electronic devices and equipment from the satellite dishes to distribution system down to TV point location, tuning TV monitor in accordance to the settings of the frequencies of modulators, and to know trouble shooting of distributions system, such as cross modulations, weak or too strong signal levels. He discussed those things in a professional manner and showed his mastery in the subject field.
Around 12 noon we got our different kinds of lunch meal to choose from, everyone is full and satisfied on the buffet. During our lunch meal Pres. Lambert Reyes plug again the IECEP GCC Convention at UAE Dubai this coming September 14-16, 2017. 7 PECE aspirants from WRC will be scheduled for interview.
After lunch Engr. Gerardo Dimaunahan prepared and set-up the application without distribution. He showed us the steps and procedures to design multi channels RF satellite distribution system and to determine the numbers of existing channels in the distribution system.
At 4-5pm an honorary award of plaque and certificate of appreciation was awarded to Engr. Gerardo Dimaunahan for giving as the new knowledge in the RF distribution seminar and followed by the awarding of certificate to the participants.
And for our tradition, a group picture was taken for the 4th technical seminar of IECEP-KSA-WRC this 2017.