SBE Chapter 17 Meetings and Stories in 2022
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December 28, 2022: Don Egert passed away at the age of 89. Egert, a familiar and engaging voice on radio & TV for over 70 years in west central Minnesota and northeast South Dakota, passed away Wednesday December 28, 2022, at the age 89 in Watertown, South Dakota. Beginning in 1949 on KWAT, Watertown, on KSOO in Sioux Falls, KYNT in Yankton, and for 41 years at KDIO, Ortonville where he was cofounder, and then sole owner of KDIO and KAHF-FM, he continued in broadcasting after selling those stations in 1997 by returning to KWAT and then KXLG, Watertown, until he semi-retired just 4 years ago. He was also the Pioneer Public Television personality for over 40 years. https://www.crawfordosthus.com/obituary/Donald-Egert
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December 11, 2022: Dewey "Duke" Wright Jr. died at the age 83. His career in broadcasting started as a teenager when he successfully talked his parents into buying a radio station in 1958. That was just the beginning of his life as a broadcast owner, with more than 80 stations in 18 markets including Duluth and Hibbing in Minnesota along with Wausau and Green Bay in Wisconsin.
Radio World Story More history at: https://mwcradio.com/about-us/ |
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October 4, 2022: SBE Chapter 17 meeting at BLVD Kitchen and Bar, 11544 Wayzata Boulevard in Minnetonka. It was a lunch-and-learn session featuring Dave Buck, Brian Beckwith, Nicolette Boissonneau, Fred Wright, and Mackenzie Jacobson of Imagine Communications.
https://imaginecommunications.com. Thanks to Mike Davison for the photo. |
Father Bernie Ness 1938 - 2022
Find his obituary at: https://www.sctimes.com/obituaries/sct071442
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August 26, 2022: Father Bernie Ness passed away at age 84. Father Bernie was affectionately referred to as "The Robin Hood Priest of Guatemala."
He was known in the Twin Cities broadcast engineering community for his yearly visits to us to beg, borrow or steal surplus broadcast equipment from TV and radio stations and then have that gear shipped to his mission in Coban, Guatemala where he built shortwave and FM radio stations that served the indigenous Mayan communities in the northern part of Guatemala. Among his 'rescues' were a 5kW AM transmitter from a defunct station in Minneapolis, as well as a surplus 5kW FM transmitter. George Werl, Mike Gorniak and Steve Brown made trips to Guatemala to help troubleshoot those transmitters. Bernie was an active ham operator, and early on in the days of satellite delivery of TV programming. He hand constructed a 3 meter dish to receive programming. When his mission project closed in Guatemala he retired from active scrounging and returned to the U.S. Bernie spent his last days at St John's University in Collegeville, MN. Because of his command of Spanish, he served Mass at area Hispanic churches. I'm quite sure that he's resting well in the afterlife, and is still successfully trying to 'obtain' surplus equipment from the angels in his neighborhood to use in missionary projects. Radio Ranger Steve Brown. |
Robb Daly 07/24/1952 - 08/22/2023
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August 22, 2022: Well-known engineer Robert (Robb) Daly passed away from congestive heart failure at age 69. He worked for MPR and KQRS in Minneapolis before hiring on at Enco Systems.
Find his complete obituary at: https://www.klecatskys.com/obituaries/obituary-listings?obId=25717449&fbclid=IwAR2ex-VEHfFo9Rf3pi0dnumHYcB76VzdvsLOykgpJeVtMD1CDooG9S3xwWA |
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Bill Dahlstrom
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March 22, 2022: Bill Dahlstrom from Minnesota Public Radio gave a Zoom presentation on using Microsoft Visio for creating floor plans, equipment rack vertical plans, schematic diagrams and flow diagrams.
YouTube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXhk2IpdyyY Click on images below to see a larger version |
Michael Baez, Tripleplay
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