November 2024 News and Notes

Our November meeting will be on Tuesday, November 19 at Noon at the Out-O-Town Club in Kaukauna.

We hill be holding our elections at the meeting.

Our Program will be Megan Clappe, our SBE Certification Director, She will be speaking about the SBE Certification Program and all aspects of it. 

We will be rvoting to ratify our updated bylaws at the December meeting. They are provided below.

October 2024 News and Notes

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.

July 2024 Meeting – Chapter Picnic

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.

May 2024 News and Notes

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 Meeting

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.

Broadcast Engineers Serving Northeast & Central Wisconsin