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August 2023 News and Notes

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.

June 2023 News and Notes

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.

May 2023 News and Notes

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.

April 2023 News and Notes

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.

March 2023 News and Notes

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.

February 2023 News and Notes

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.