Category: Odds and Ends

Jon Kasprick – Educator of the Year

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…

Clay’s Corner January

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…

Clays Corner – November

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…

A Grand Christmas Party

It was another grand SBE Chapter 16 Christmas party December 14 at Ivar’s Salmon House in Seattle. The social hour began at 5:30 pm with an open bar compliments of Hatfield and Dawson Engineers. At 6:45, Chapter Chairman Dave Ratener…

Clay’s Corner for October

Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 CONGRATULATIONS TO WASHINGTON’S MARCONI RADIO AWARD WINNERS – KIRO-FM AND KRWM-FM (WARM 106.9)! Two Seattle radio stations have received the prestigious NAB Marconi Radio Awards – Bonneville’s KIRO-FM…

Clays Corner for September 2019

Clay’s Corner – Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 Enjoying summer? At least this one has been relatively free of the choking smoke of last year. We’ve had some rainy days that have kept…

Clay’s Corner – June

Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 And the Headline read – “Washington earned the No. 1 spot on U.S. News & World Report’s Best States rankings.” So you say – How come? Booming economy…The…

Clay’s Corner

Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 Finally!!  I get to say welcome to SPRING!  Since we last met here amount a month ago, I’ve had a lot to write about in the Weather Department….and…

Clay’s Corner – March

Clay’s Corner – Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 So what happened? We had wrapped up January with some record breaking warm days. My lawn was growing to the point that I vowed that…

Clay’s Corner for February

Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 Looking back a year, Seattle had its snowiest February on record and the coldest one in 30 years. The average temperature for the month was 36.6 degrees. According…