For those of us in the PNW we are reading the news about balmy weather in other parts of the country and wondering what happened to us. Waking up to a blanket of snow in my yard in late March is a bit un-usual. Some of our mountain top sites are still only accessible by…
Tony Peterle (Manager, Worldcast Systems) did a superb job of explaining the delivery of broadcast-quality audio over unmanaged IP links at the March Chapter lunch meeting. He explained how this is more cost effective to use the internet instead of T1 or ISDN lines, especially in the case of multicasting. A brief description was given…
Longtime SBE member Dave Ratener is headed back to the Seattle market as Chief Engineer of the Sandusky Seattle stations. Dave has been caring for seven AM and FM stations for the Radio Spokane Group (Mapleton Communications). Dave will be taking over the reins of the Sandusky operation in early April. Dave spent time in…
by: Michael Scott, Certification Chairman I cannot believe the weather – rain, snow, sleet, hail – where are the locus and fire storms? Well, the good news is that spring is just around the corner – maybe! NAB is later this month… so I know that spring is almost here…. I applied for a new…
This month we have seen the passing of 3 people, in broadcasting I knew Wally Nelskog – Unlike many I know, I did not work for Wally, however if you worked in Radio in the PNW you certainly knew his name. Wally passed away recently at the age of 92 leaving behind a ton of…
DASDEC Solutions for EAS-CAP Our April Luncheon presenter will be Bill Robertson, VP of Business Development for Monroe Electronics and the Digital Alert System (DASDEC). The deadline for installing your new CAP enabled EAS equipment is less than 100 days away. Bill will be providing updates on the latest requirements for meeting the June 30…
