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Let Liberty’s Ring at White House Summit

Debbie Lombard — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:11:12 +0000

White House communication’s department uses four Liberty’s in healthcare meeting…

FCC Wireless Update 2010

Debbie Lombard — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:17:40 +0000

January 30, 2010, by Pro Sound Web Staff

The FCC finally dropped the other proverbial shoe during the 2010 Winter NAMM show when it issued an Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking prohibiting sales of wireless microphone and monitoring systems that operate in the 700 MHz frequency band, and kicking existing ones out by June 12 of this year…..more

In the News – Liberty Platinum portable sound system meets the requirements for an outdoor memorial service.

Debbie Lombard — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:55:16 +0000

Liberty Platinum

PortaCom Wired Intercom System

Debbie Lombard — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:12:25 +0000

Great sales opportunity at shoppingdigitalcameras.com

Order Processing Made Easier

Debbie Lombard — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:19:41 +0000

Anchor Audio is EDI compliant. For those of you who are not familiar with this technology….let me explain it to you.
Electronic Data Interchange enables the computer system from one company to “talk” to the computer system of another company and digitally exchange data. Most of the business processes are automated to electronically exchange business documents like purchase orders and invoices.

The auto-process here at Anchor includes:

Order entry
Receipt verification
Advanced ship notice
Ship notification
Invoice

The advantages to EDI :

Paperless – save a tree
Increases productivity without increasing staff
Reduces or eliminates manual data entry errors
Streamlines transaction processing

Anchor dealers who are interested in operating in the EDI arena can contact Ralph Maldanado, CIO. Email or 800.262.4671 x118

September is National Emergency Preparedness Month

Debbie Lombard — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:15:35 +0000

With September being National Emergency Preparedness Month, the A/V industry has many products that can contribute to emergency warning, evacuation and crowd control.

Whether a disaster strikes in a high rise tower or a college campus, the first indicator for public attention is a siren or alarm. Someone smells smoke, and the fire alarm is pulled. Orderly evacuation should follow.

Helpful tools during evacuation include: rope lighting along an evacuation pathway, prerecorded instructions over an intercom system and live instructions over a portable public address system.

Post evacuation crowds provide a new set of challenges. Campus administrators who provide updates to the students find:

Anxiety level is reduced
Current safety and security confidence is increased
Appropriate behavior prevails under the circumstances

Portable public address systems need to be loud and most importantly clear. Lower frequencies in the speech band reproduce a warm speech sound with higher intelligibility.

The effectiveness of a P.A. is measured in real life experiences. The person in the remote corner of the assembly area must be able to hear instructions as well as the person up front. Multiple sound systems may be required to cover the crowd size.

A portable public address system must be ready to use at all times. A system that charges the batteries 24/7 is reliable for emergency announcements and just might save a life.