[SBE-89-Alaska] Engineering Sessions ABA Convention

[Charles Sather]

I just wanted to put a bug in everyone's ear about sessions for the ABA Convention next year.  Even though the ABA Board hasn't officially said there will be a convention, the likelihood looks good.  If any Engineers would like to help plan sessions, let me know.





Here is a comment that came out of the end-of-year board meeting with the ABA members:

"I made a suggestion during the meeting a week ago and wanted to expand on that a little bit to share what matters most to me and what may matter to other small stations

Basic troubleshooting skills.
If X happens, do Y.
(Like, if you go to the statewide newscast at 5 or 6 and theres no audio... heres what you do). one of the things that would be handy, is having a list of stations who carry at the same time as you so you could then pull up a stream from that station and can get a stream on air while you troubleshoot why you have no satellite audio.

stuff like that that requires some thought process, because lemme tell you, in a small town when things go sideways, you know someones about to call you and tell you theres a problem when youre already stressed about trying to solve it.

I think another very useful skill is automation programming. not all, but some arent techie types or deep nerdy radio people like me...... and even im hesitant around automation programming. .and we know what to do because weve been doing it for so long, repetition.

I know there isnt one automation standard across the state, but maybe worth finding out what stations use and what our most common automation needs are?

tech/troubleshooting stuff along the lines of.. that wiull get normal programming on till you can find the problem yourself in a few minutes, an hour... or something that will hold till you can get engineering on site if its a major issue

(like when my console had an issue after a power outage.. it wasnt necessarily the console, it was the power supply)

Us small stations arent so much concerned, at least as i see it in my POV with KSKO.. about programming stuf.f. its technical stuff, also based on the few brief convesations ive had with others mall stations here

Theres more 1 person management/tech staffs then we realize... KDLG, KUHB, KSDP, KCUK, KIYU, KSKO, KZPA... some are better at some things than others (like DAve at KIYU is pretty smart technically(

Paul"
--

Regards,
Paul Walker
"The Alaska Radio Nerd"
paul at alaskaradionerd.com<mailto:paul at alaskaradionerd.com>
Mobile/Cell +1 (907) 574-0258
Program Director: KSKO 89.5 FM McGrath, Alaska, USA
Afternoon Host: Hits 106 KLMI-FM Laramie, Wyoming, USA



Thank you,
Charles Sather
Chief Operating Officer, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
P. 907-793-3535 | koahnicbroadcast.org
Support KBC and its programs through Pick.Click.Give
[cid:image001.png at 01DB3F21.810DAF70]

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sea.sbe16.org/pipermail/sbe-89-alaska/attachments/20241125/34f48b18/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 18363 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <http://sea.sbe16.org/pipermail/sbe-89-alaska/attachments/20241125/34f48b18/attachment-0001.png>