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Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter 17 Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, USA

​Photo atop the IDS Building in downtown Minneapolis, 792 feet above street level.  
We are a non-profit professional organization of radio and television engineers who build, repair and update radio and television broadcast facilities.  All broadcast engineers are welcome to join our group.  ​Chapter 17 has 83 members, of which 27 are SBE certified.  Most live and work in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  We meet monthly to exchange ideas and increase skill level.  There is also an annual summer picnic and holiday party in December.  Most meetings are being held online during COVID.
There are no strangers here, only engineers you haven't met.
​Engineer is spoken here
​Think Positive and Test negative
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Taylor Barker
SBE Chapter 17 meeting on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, 1 pm CDT:  John Fallows, a retired broadcast engineer and amateur radio operator VE6EY in Winnipeg, will tell us about his experiments using diversity to improve radio reception.  
http://play.fallows.ca/wp/category/radio/radio-frequency-interference/ 

Then Mark Persons W0MH will show his amateur radio station, constructed using lightning protection techniques learned while he was employed as a radio broadcast engineer.

To get an invitation, email Program Chairman - Taylor Robert Barker 
​taylor.r.barker@gmail.com
The Next Best Thing Media Tour/Roadshow is scheduled for Thursday, July 21, 2022, from 11 am to 2 pm. Stay tuned for an announcement of the location.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, skyline.
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St. Paul, Minnesota skyline.
News:
​February 4, 2022: Neil Swanson passed away at age 69. He was a broadcast engineer for KSTP AM/FM, WCCO-AM and 93.7 KLXK (at the time he worked there). Neil had been in poor health for some time.  His last gig was with Verizon Wireless. Neil retired from there a few years ago. He was a long time ham radio operator with the callsign WW0NS. Obituary at https://www.kozlakradulovich.com/memorials/neil-swanson/4850006/index.php
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January 1, 2021:  Terry Baun, an award-winning engineer from Wisconsin, has died at age 74.  He worked in commercial and public broadcast stations starting in 1967.  Baun served as President of the Society of Broadcast Engineers twice.

SBE story: http://sbe.org/terry-baun-dies/

Radio World has more details:  https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/terry-baun-dies-at-age-74-engineer-mentor-former-sbe-president
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December 12, 2021:  Jeremy Ruck died of COVID.  The photo shows Jeremy atop a building in downtown Chicago.  In the background is the Willis Tower, the tallest building in Chicago, where he was manager of communications facilities.  Jeremy was a well known and highly respected broadcast engineering consultant. Jeremy was only 50 years old and in otherwise perfect health.  His wife Frankie and 10-year-old son Alex are doing OK.

Details at:  
​https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/12/18/unvaccinated-peoria-native-dies-from-covid-19-in-illinois/8913159002/
Job Openings:
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Assistant/Associate Director of Broadcast Operations at St. Olaf College.  https://stolaf.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=1868&job=assistant-associate-director-of-broadcast-engineering

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Twin Cities PBS is looking for people.  If interested, please apply by visiting our Career Center at http://www.tpt.org/careers/job-openings/

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K-LOVE and Air 1 Radio Networks are looking for people.  See: https://careers-kloveair1.icims.com/jobs/search?hashed=-435656068

​SBE is an organization with 114 chapters and 4500 members world-wide.