Alex Brewster made a presentation on his experiences using drones for broadcasting for our April Zoom meeting. Alex shared some of his experiences operating his drone for various uses including tower inspections on Tiger Mountain following the disastrous antenna fire…
Chapter 16 members Marty Hadfield and Jim Dalke led the March Chapter Meeting with discussion of keeping the station legal and the FCC Self-Inspection Checklist. Much of the discussion was about changes in the Checklist and how the station could…
Stephen Lockwood of Hatfield and Dawson Engineers was the featured speaker for the January Chapter Zoom Meeting to be held January12th. Stephen talked about the recent changes in FCC RF exposure rules. The discussion covered the recent changes in FCC…
It was a great “in-person” SBE Chapter 16 Christmas party, Saturday, December 18 at Ivar’s Salmon House on Seattle’s Lake Union. Thirty chapter members and friends joined in the festivities which began with “Happy Hour” hosted by hosted by Hatfield…
Kelly Alford gave us a live tour of the NBC Universal facilities in Washington, DC, at our regular monthly member meeting on Zoom, Wednesday, November 10. Kelly has been involved in many broadcast projects in the Puget Sound area and…
The SBE Chapter 16 October meeting was held on the 13th at noon. The online Zoom meeting was a time of sharing memories of Gary Hart who passed away September 2. Gary worked for “The Telephone Company” in broadcast technical…
It was a great day for our annual chapter 16 picnic at the lakeside home of Terry and Roxanne Spring, our hosts on Saturday, August 21. The Spring home is on Lake Joy in hills of east King County. There…
Jon Kasprick has been named by the SBE Chapter 16 Educator of the Year by the Chapter Board of Directors in August. Jon will be presented his award at the Chapter’s Annual Picnic August 21 at the KIRO-AM transmitter site…
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986. Over the many years I’ve been writing this Column…I find the one I do at the end of December seems to have a similar theme. Look back at…
Around these parts, October means it’s transition time…from the warm and dry, and lately smokey, days of summer to the stormy month of November. Remember that October can be stormy too, as anyone that was here in 1962 will have…
