RF Specialties of California – RF SPECIALTIES GROUP

RF SPECIALTIES OF CALIFORNIA

Phone: 619 501 3936
General Email: contact@rfsca.com

Serving the Pacific Region & the Southwest
We supply virtually any broadcast equipment brand with prompt service and delivery. Click here for brands & products.
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Jeff Motta

Sales Manager & Champion of Customer Projects
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Phone 619 501 3936
jeff@rfsca.com

Jessica Colyer

Sales and Field Engineer
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Phone 619 501 3936
jessica@rfsca.com

Dennis Gilliam

Sales and Field Engineer
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Phone 602 710 0803
dennisgilliam@gmail.com

Tom Driggers

Sales and Field Engineer
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Phone 888 737 7320
tom@fmam.tv

Jeremy Preece

Sales and Field Engineer
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Phone 916 412 8052
jeremy@wavelengthtechnical.com

Bill Newbrough

Sales Engineer & Legendary Broadcast Veteran
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Phone 702 419 7903
rfstx@rfsca.com

Steve Moreen

Legacy CXO at large & Public Relations Extraordinaire
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Phone 619 501 3936
contact@rfsca.com

Dennis Pieri

CEO & Lifetime RF Enthusiast
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Phone 619 501 3936
dennis@rfsca.com

Jeff Motta

Jeff Motta is a former Marine / Airborne who served in the first Gulf War and traveled a lot with the USMC. He owned and operated a few businesses and has a long history of customer service, like when he worked with several phone companies researching data and focusing on sales team coordination. He joined RF Specialties in 2009 and ever since he has been instrumental in organizing and building the success of the company. Among his duties are managing sales, customer service, order fulfillment and billing. He likes talking to customers (a lot), and has a very open and interactive relationship with them. He typically works very closely with customers’ purchasing departments and accounting. He knows most customers and suppliers by first name and works closely with customers with tight timelines to help accomplishing projects big and small in a timely fashion. He persistently hunts down the best prices in the interest of customers. loves to research new and improved items for customers’ applications.

Jessica Colyer

Jessica started as a radio engineering intern in the early 90’s. She always had a passion for electronics and learning. She transitioned into television as an Integrator in the late 90’s. Leveraging that experience, she then became a satellite truck engineer. As digital TV developed and took hold, she became a Field Service Engineer for a major encoder company, while staying on top of the technology and learning the advantages and pitfalls (mostly pitfalls… 🙂) of the transition to ATSC 1.0 and HDTV. She also worked as a freelance Transmission Tech for ESPN and a Satellite Engineer for ABC, CBS, Peak Uplink and Coastal Media Group. With her love for sales, engineering & customer support, Jessica strives to maintain her edge as a field operative and student of new technology. Jessica has been an SBE Chapter 36 member since 2014, has a part 107 drone certification and an FCC radio telephone operator’s license. She is currently studying SMPTE 2110 and ATSC 3.0 among other new technologies.

Dennis Gilliam

Dennis Gilliam first learned radio engineering as early as age 11 at KVOY AM in Yuma, Arizona. After high school he received his First Class Radiotelephone License and an AA degree in music while Chief Engineer for KAWC AM in Yuma. In 1983 he became CE for KZZP-AM/FM in Phoenix and then on the KMCR-KJZZ-KBAQ FM NPR for 25 years. After formal retirement as an employee in 2010, he started his own Signals Radio LLC and ever since he performed broadcast field engineering of all kinds in the Southwest, with a steady stream of construction or revamping broadcast facilities. He is also an Amateur Extra W7TFO, and plays euphonium in several community bands. He lived in Arizona all his life, and for the last 20 years his base of operations has been just outside the city of Maricopa, AZ.

Bill Newbrough

Bill Newbrough has over 50 years of experience in the radio and TV industry, starting as a “rock & roll” DJ in 1958, at WVVW in Grafton WV. He obtained the FCC First Class license in 1960 and became chief engineer. From there he went on to various announcing and engineering positions in radio and TV in West Virginia and Indiana. A 20 year stint at NBC-TV and Radio, in Chicago and San Francisco, followed. From 1977 to 1989 he was engineering manager at the 50 kW NBC O&O, KNBR, in San Francisco. In 1989 NBC sold off all of its radio properties and Bill went into sales, as District Sales Manager for Harris Broadcast. Since 1993 he has been associated with both RF Specialties of California and RF Specialties of Washington, Inc

Tom Driggers

Tom has over 40 years of experience in radio and television, having entering the broadcast industry at age 13. He has designed, built and maintained multiple facilities of various sizes in small and major markets, from studios to high power transmitters facilities. He has complete end-to-end knowledge an experience in all functions of a broadcast facility including building construction and modification, computer/IT, audio, video, RF, preventive maintenance, procedures, documentation and FCC law compliance. Tom has also owned and operated radio stations during his career.

Jeremy Preece

Jeremy Preece has been an avid fan and proponent of radio since he was a child. He got into radio as a career in his late teens, working on-air and in other capacities before truly discovering engineering was his gift. He served with one of the largest broadcasters in the country for over 20 years, and has been involved in hundreds of station builds, moves, upgrades, and maintenance projects across the USA. Jeremy is SBE certified as a CPBE with a DRB endorsement, and is a licensed amateur radio operator and private pilot. He now owns an engineering service company and remains passionate about keeping radio stations on the air and sounding great.

Steve Moreen

Steve Moreen’s 30+ years of broadcast engineering experience spans radio, television and satellite communications. As the Chief Engineer/Director of Engineering of high powered AM, FM and large market network television operations, Steve’s background in studio and transmitter site maintenance and modifications is extensive. His experience in the design and operation of large teleports has made him an expert in transmit/receive satellite earth stations. While Engineering Manager at KPIX-TV, Steve’s Engineering Department received a Bay Area NATAS Emmy for Technical Achievement. Steve has supervised the remote production and/or transmission of numerous television broadcasts for the major television networks. Steve holds a FCC General Class Radiotelephone license and General Class Amateur Radio license (WA9UGS).

Dennis Pieri

Dennis Pieri always loved radio and has been in the broadcast industry since very early in life. He already owned and operated a radio station when he was just 23. Under his ten year management the station climbed from nowhere all the way to number one in the audience ratings. During his radio years he had the opportunity to learn RF with hands-on field experience of all kinds, including working on radio towers and antenna systems. He built several transmitter sites and managed numerous installations. He also was the founder of Bext Corporation and in recent years he participated in a number of projects where RF was utilized for scientific research purposes. In 2018 he acquired the West Coast branches of RF Specialties. To this day, he remains a true RF enthusiast.