Our August meeting will be on Tuesday, August 15th, at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. The program will be an interesting video that will look at the similarities of wave behavior. Vice Chair Matt Converse found the video and it covers wave behavior and provides historical context. Zoom information for those who can’t make it in person is in the newsletter.
The August newsletter is now available.
Our July meeting will be on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at Woodward Radio Group, 2800 E College Ave, Appleton. We will be hosting the Next Best Thing Tour and our chapter picnic. Vendors will be ready around 11 AM with lunch at Noon. The tour will be open until 2 PM. You can register in advace for the show using this link. All SBE guests should park across the street from the station in the lot next to Tuffy (but not at Tuffy).
The July newsletter is available now.
Our June meeting will be held in conjunction with the WBA Duke Wright Media Technology Institute at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake.
Our July meeting will be the chapter summer picnic. It will be held on Thursday, July 20 at Woodward Radio Group, 2800 E College Ave, Appleton. We will also be joined by The Next Best Thing Tour for the picnic.
The June newsletter is available now.
Our May meeting will be Tuesday, May 16th. Lunch will be at The Rite Place, 1580 Bellevue St., Green Bay at 11:30 AM. The meeting and program will be held at 1 PM at UW Green Bay. There will be no Zoom meeting for this month. Included in the visit will be a tour of the Engineering and Media spaces. The media facilities are located in the Instructional Services Building (#6 on the map). It is suggested you park in the Laboratory Sciences parking lot (no permit needed). Enter the Laboratory Sciences building from the lot and proceed to the lower level, first floor. Follow the corridors through the Environmental Sciences building and arrive at Instructional Services. The labs and studios are in the west end of the building. Turn left and follow the signs for TEAM Labs.
The May Newsletter is available.
Our April Meeting will be on Tuesday, April 25th at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. Our program will be a review of new items discovered at NAB. Kent Aschenbrenner, Senior Director of Engineering at The E.W. Scripps Company will be joining us, as well as any of our other members that were able to make the trip this year. Zoom information is in the newsletter.
The April newsletter is available now.
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.
The March Newsletter is available now.
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 Feburary Newsletter is available now.
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.
The January newsletter is available below.
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.
The December 2022 newsletter is now posted.
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