I think he is happy ….This picture of KIRO Radios chief, Tom Pierson, discovering that his new Nautel GV30 transmitter will indeed produce the power required for the job. Cool thing about this new rig is that this fancy screen with oodles of information...
Not a lot of time of late for news gathering as I have been in construction mode at West Tiger Mt This project involves the replacement of transmitters for KIRO-FM and KING-FM at the same time – Here are some pics I want to share - Here you can see...
Clay’s Corner for June 2015 Welcome to summer ….Well almost …I have to admit that these 70 + degree days are not hard to get used to. Meanwhile the media is full of stories about our drought and the impact this will have as we get later into the year....
First of all – A thank you to Marty Hadfield for inviting me to have a conversation with those attending the last Chapter Meeting where I could more fully explain what I feel is a critical need to prepare for providing...
Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 Color Television and print-media has brought us a vastly superior way to see the events of the day…at the same time they have un-covered...
Well here we are – Another year….and some more of Clay’s Corner. Gotta be pushing 30 years with this. I have to admit that I’m hearing a lot of –when are you going to retire – comments which roughly translates into...
Clay’s Corner for December 2014 Think about this one for a moment – You build a nice new TV facility, costing millions of dollars…You go on the air … Then the whole station shuts...
Hard to believe that we only have a couple of months to go in 2014- Wow has this whizzed by. Of course all things do when you reach this point in life. You can certainly tell we are at this time of year when the days are getting really short and the...
On Sept 5th the road to the transmitter sites at West Tiger became blocked when a very long, side-dumper, truck tried to go around a sharp corner with its rear-end going off the road. The big rig, hauling a load of large rocks was finally...
Clay’s Corner for Sept 2014 Welcome to FALL ! For most of you the autumnal equinox is officially Sept 22nd…but for those of us in the PNW Labor Day is just about it. Why else would the Seattle celebration of...
