2010 SBE Chapter 16 Vashon Picnic Saturday, July 24 Mark your calendars for the big Chapter 16 picnic on Vashon Island. Vashon Island is home to five transmitter sites and six 50,000 watt transmitters. The event will be sponsored by our friends at BSW, premier broadcast equipment suppliers. The chapter will provide all the food…
Our guest speaker will be Don Miller of Washington State Emergency Management. Don will be introducing the latest development in EAS technology, Common Alerting Protocol(CAP). Don will explain and demonstrate the new CAP enabled EAS equipment now being deployed in the state. CAP standardizes the content of alerts and notifications across all hazards, including law…
CERTIFICATION NEWS by: Michael Scott, Certification Chairman Our industry is deeply involved with the transferring, storage, and conversion of data. The time has come that ALL disciplines within our industry must have a working knowledge of the “IT Cloud”. I highly recommend that you consider becoming a ‘Certified Broadcast Networking Technologist’. The process of preparing…
May was another busy month, at times difficult to focus on the technical business side of my life with my daughter’s kidney transplant May 5. The surgery went as well as could be expected and she is recovering faster than predicted. You can read the story on this modern day miracle on her website atwww.tammyskidney.org and follow…
CLAY’S CORNER FOR JUNE 2010 Talk about time flying! Here we are half way through 2010 and getting close to our shortest season – Summer. Unofficially, the Seattle area, Summer starts after the huge rain storm on the 4th of July and lasts, hopefully, until half way through the Puyallup fair. At our…
