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December 2025 News and Notes

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This Month

Our December meeting will be on Tuesday, December 16 at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. We will be having our chapter elections. Members: Your ballot was emailed to you. You can bring it to the meeting, or email it to the address in the ballot and newsletter by Monday, December 15.

Upcoming Events

Our January meeting will be on Tuesday, January 20th. This will be our annual holiday party. Social Hour begins at 5:30 PM and Dinner begins at 6:30 PM.

Newsletter

The December newsletter is available.

December 2025 SBE Chapter 80 NewsletterDownload
Chapter News, Meetings

May 2025 News and Notes

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This Month

Our May meeting will be Tuesday, May 20th, at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna. If there are no reception issues, our program this month will be a comparison of off-air signals from an ATSC 3.0 station and ATSC 1.0 TV stations. Zoom information in is the newsletter.

Please Note: Due to the I-41 expansion project, the Highway J overpass over I-41 is currently closed. Please use an alternate route.

Newsletter

May 2025Download

Upcoming

There will not be a regular meeting in June. Remember to register for the WBA Duke Wright Media Technology Institute June 17th thorugh the 19th at the Radisson in La Crosse. Hotel reservations must be made by May 22nd and registration for the event is due by May 29th.

Our July meeting will be on Tuesday, July 15th. It will be our chapter picnic at the Fox 11 Field House in Green Bay.

Chapter News, Meetings

October 2024 News and Notes

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Our October meeting will be on Tuesday, October 15th at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna.

Agenda

  • Election Nominations
  • By-Law Updates, looking to ratify the updated by-laws in November
  • Newsletter Editor and Content Creator
  • Establishing a chapter picnic committee (or just someone who wants to be in charge of organizing the event)
  • Other new or old business.
  • Program

Program

Ed Czarnecki, Vice President, Government and Global Affairs, Digital Alert Systems will present our program this month, he will be joining us via zoom.

Topic:  NextGen Broadcast Tech for NextGen Warnings:  A quick dive into several trends and innovations in the broadcast radio and TV environment, covering topics such as:  how EAS can support station virtualization, enhancing alerts in HD radio with graphical displays, ATSC 3.0 an Advanced Emergency Information for nextgenTV, and enhancing visual EAS with symbology.  We’ll review recent collaborative ATSC 3.0 initiatives between ATSC, NVISA and FEMA IPAWS, and select developments in HD Radio alerting.

Speaker profile:  Ed Czarnecki (Vice President, Government and Global Affairs, Digital Alert Systems).  Ed works with public sector and advanced technology initiatives at Digital Alert Systems, and is current Executive Director of the NextGen Video Information Systems Alliance (NVISA).  He is also co-chair of the ATSC Advanced Emergency Information Implementation Team and chair of the ATSC Emergency Alerts working group.  He was recently appointed to be a member of the new FEMA IPAWS Working Group.

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July 2024 Meeting – Chapter Picnic

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Our July meeting will be on Tuesday, July 16 at Noon at Rib Mountain. Matt will be doing the grilling (some combination of brats, hotdogs and/or burgers).  We are doing the rest of this potluck style, so if you can bring a dish to pass it would be appreciated.  RSVP’s are not required but if you could let Matt know that you are coming it would help in determining how much meat needs to be purchased.  Please email Matt Converse and let him know if you are coming and if you are bringing a dish to pass.  The chapter will be providing soda and water for the event.

There will be more information to come regarding parking and facility tours.

We hope to see everyone on Tuesday on Rib Mountain.

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May 2024 News and Notes

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Our May meeting will be on Tuesday, May 21st at Sam’s Pizza in Schofield. Our presentation will be from long time Chief Engineer Mike Pappas on getting the most out of a Cheif Engineer’s work day, work week, month, and year. He will be joined by John Lynch, Director of Business Development for Broadcast Supply Worldwide (BSW). In addition to discussing how to make the most of a Chief Engineer’s job, Mr. Pappas will outline and demonstrate the new technology employed by Orban Labs in on-air processing and streaming processing. The company was founded 55 years ago by the legendary and still very active, Bob Orban.

Zoom meeting details for those who are unable to attend in person are in the newsletter.

Our May newsletter is available now.

May 2024 NewsletterDownload

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May 2024 Meeting

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Our May meeting will be on Tuesday, May 21st Noon at a different location than usual. We will be in the Wausau area at Sam’s Pizza in Schofield.

We will be “passing the hat” for donations for the pizzas for lunch. Matt will personally cover any additional costs involved with lunch. As always Zoom will be an option if you cannot attend in person. Keep an eye on your email for the link. 

We look forward to seeing everyone at Sam’s Pizza in Schofield on the 21st.