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New Paint, Old Friends

Members of SBE Chapter 37 and their guests take part in a picnic on the grounds of WMAL(AM) near the nation's capital.

By James E. O'Neal

Members of SBE Chapter 37 and their guests take part in a picnic on the grounds of WMAL(AM) near the nation’s capital; the event is an annual end-of-summer occasion, and was held this year in conjunction with the local section of SMPTE. The four-tower array, which sits on 75 acres, recently was spiffed up with a new paint job.

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James E. O'Neal

James E. O’Neal has more than 50 years of experience in the broadcast arena, serving for nearly 37 years as a television broadcast engineer and, following his retirement from that field in 2005, moving into journalism as technology editor for TV Technology for almost the next decade. He continues to provide content for TV Technology, as well as sister publication Radio World, and others. He authored the chapter on HF shortwave radio for the 11th Edition of the NAB Engineering Handbook, and serves as editor-in-chief of the IEEE’s Broadcast Technology publication, and as associate editor of the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. He is a SMPTE Life Fellow, and a Life Member of the IEEE and the SBE.

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