Preparations are underway for the big Annual Chapter 16 Christmas Party Saturday, December 15 at Ivar’s Salmon House on Lake Union. The doors will open at 5:30 pm for “happy hour” hosted by Hatfield and Dawson Engineers followed by the dinner buffet at about 7:00 pm. This year’s cost will be a highly subsidized $40…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 I like to start this column with a picture. Last month was a pretty one of a sunset behind the Tower at West Tiger-1. This month, pictures of a Master FM Antenna being…
A new venue and a hot topic brought out 27 members and guests for our November Luncheon. The luncheon was held at the KIRO-TV Studios in Seattle with our guest speaker Paul Shulin from Burk Technology. Burk provided Zeek’s Pizza (Seattle’s best)) for lunch. Chairman…
Jim Dalke, CPBE, Editor – Six Seattle Class C FM stations were knocked off the air Thursday morning, November 8 when a Tiger Mountain master antenna suffered major fire damage. Damage appeared to be confined to the antenna array on the tower and the transmitter buildings below…
By Jon Kasprick, Chairman – Don Backus of Rohde & Schwarz joined us at the Tukwila Old Spaghetti Factory for our October 10th luncheon. Don described their high-power, solid-state, liquid-cooled, series of TV & FM transmitters. His presentation included their SDE900 Software Defined Exciter for…
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