Our March meeting will be on Tuesday, March 21st, at 11:30 AM (please note the earlier start time) at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. Our business meeting and lunch will be followed by a 1 PM tour of the Fox Energy Center natural gas power plant located in Wrightstown near the Out-O-Town Club. In order to attend the tour, you must pre-register by contacting John Pfankuch (contact info in the newsletter) no later than Friday, March 17th. The majority of the tour will be outdoors so dress appropriately. Due to the tour, the Zoom call will be limited to the business meeting. Zoom information is in the newsletter.
Our February meeting will be on Tuesday, February 21st at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club or via Zoom. The program topic regards regulations and practices surrounding broadcast towers today. It was originally presented to Chapter 25. Presenters were Bill Harland and John Robinson, PE of ERI in Chandler, IN. One of the members, Doug Garlinger, stated “This presentation should be watched by every US broadcast engineer involved with a tower.” The Zoom link in is the newsletter.
Our January meeting will be on Tuesday, January 17th at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna at 5:30 PM. It will be our holiday party. There will be no Zoom meeting for this meeting. Drinks will be starting at 5:30 and dinner at 6:30.
On December 8th, Bill Hubbard presented a donation of $500.00 on behalf of the chapter to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in support of the Gary Mach Excellence in Media Fund.
Gary Mach was a long time broadcast engineer in NE Wisconsin at WLUK TV 11, the University of Wisconsin Green Bay and Cellcom. He mentored many students and other broadcast engineers. He was a member of Chapter 80 for decades and assisted in helping form the Chapter by bringing in the Green Bay area members a year after the Chapter’s founding in 1981.
For more information about the fund and for ways to donate, please read the attached document from the UW-Green Bay Foundation.
Bill Hubbard (center) and Eileen Mach (wife of the late Gary Mach, right) present a donation to Joy Wick, Executive Director of Advancement, UW Green Bay (left).
Our July Meeting will be the Chapter Picnic in conjunction with The Next Best Thing Tour at Midwest Communications in Green Bay. Please note that due to road work, access to Midwest Communications will only be allowed from the north. A suggested route is in the newsletter. Please also see the newsletter for information to RSVP.
Our June 2022 meeting will be at the WBA Summer Conference, Wednesday, June 22 at the Radisson Hotel La Crosse. For more information on the Summer Conference Engineering Day, click here.
Our May meeting will be Tuesday, May 17th, at Noon, at the Out-O-Town Club or via Zoom.
Our program will be presented by Bert Goldman from Geo Broadcast Solutions. He will be speaking on Advances in Synchronous FB booster design and construction. Bert is currently the president of Goldman Engineering Management. Bert brings more than 45 years of experience in broadcast engineering. He has extensive experience in facility design, Spectrum improvement, FCC applications, and all facets of station construction.
Zoom connection information is available in the newsletter.
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