At the outset – A big welcome to Seattle to our newest Chief Engineer – Matt Green (pictured below) Matt is now in the seat once occupied by now retired Dwight Small. Lowell Smith photo Then there was this announcement from Marvin Marcelo, GM of Northwest...
Clay Freinwald
Clay’s Corner for May 2016
Clay’s Corner Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 Looks like continued donations for KPLU as they strive to become community owned radio station. Helping with the process was a listener that said they...
Clay’s Corner for April 2016
Clay’s Corner - Providing news and views from a broadcast engineers perspective since September 1986 Over the many years I have been working in this business, and writing this column, I run across the name of a person that I have worked with in the past. In...
Clay’s Corner for March 2016
Clay’s Corner:Providing news and views from a broadcast engineer's perspective since September 1986 If you read this column regularly you may have noted the above header…Got thinking about the fact that this year will mark 30 years that I’ve been...
Clay’s Corner for February 2016
Clay’s Corner for February 2016 I guess I’ve always been a bit of a weather-nut….When I was younger, before I discovered radio, I thought about getting into that field….Perhaps this is why I write about our weather in this column? Looking back at 2015 some thoughts...
Clay’s Corner for January 2016
Clay’s Corner for January 2016 This past year I submitted a number of items related to the drought we were experiencing…Then, as Cliff Mass said would happen – A switch was thrown and we went from drought to deluge. Finally, after perhaps after wading...
Clay’s Corner for December 2015
I was listening to Cliff Mass recently explain how the last week in October or the first week in November is the time that the weather-switch is thrown and, for us, we say goodbye to nice weather and hello to storms. Boy was he right!. Especially...
Clay’s Corner for November 2015
The weather predictors are out with another forward guess – Bottom line – they think the coming months (for us) will be cooler and drier. The cool part is OK, but the dry part is scary. When you think back about this past winter. The map below shows...
Clay’s Corner for October 2015
About a month ago, Saturday August 29 to be precise, we got some rain, and with it, considerable winds resulting in about 250,000 without power, falling trees killed 2. Some were saying it was a normal November storm….Really early. Biggest loss to a...
Clay’s Corner for Sept 2015
Certainly one of the top stories this month has been the weather and our continued drought thats been punctuated by massive wildfires all over the area. The following map underscores the situation. I can’t recall ever a time when all of...












