Who: Various Presenters
What: SBE Chapter 37 Picnic, Board Nominations, & Next Best Thing Tour
When: September 30, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Where: WFED-AM Transmitter Site - Register Here
Address: 2015 University Blvd West
Wheaton, MD 20902 United States
Sponsor: Next Best Thing Media Tour

The SBE Chapter 37 annual picnic at the WFED (formerly WTOP) historical art deco transmitter site in picturesque Wheaton, MD will be held on Saturday September 30th, starting at 12 noon.   

The picnic is an opportunity to meet with broadcast engineering friends along with their families, spouses, and significant others. As usual, we'll tell a few "war stories" and dine on delicious BBQ from local restauranter Sloppy Mama's BBQ. The chapter will also start collecting nominees for the board for 2024.

Our picnic is an in-person event. Although it's a bit unusual to utilize Zoom for this purpose, we're asking all attendees to register via Zoom using this Zoom link so we know how much food to arrange for attendees. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email.

This will also include exhibitions from the Next Best Thing Media Tour, a group of folks touring the country representing broadcast companies and bringing their products and services directly to you. Companies represented at the picnic may include Altronic Research, Angry Audio, Barnfind Technologies, Broadcasters General Store, Challenger Communications, Core SWX, D2D Technologies, Digital Alert Systems, Dielectric, DTV Innovations, ENCO Systems, Forecast Consoles, Henry Engineering, Indipro Tools, Inovonics Broadcast, Jampro Antennas, Inc., Myat, Inc., Nautel, Second Opinion Communications, Inc., SWIT USA, Tieline, Toner Cable Equipment, Inc., WireCAD, WorldCast Systems, YellowTec (note that not all companies may be represented at all events).

Many thanks to sponsors Next Best Thing Media Tour for their support.  Thanks also to Brian Oliger, Art Rose, Dave Kolesar, and the folks at WTOP for helping to make arrangements and for hosting the picnic at the WFED AM 1500 transmitter site once again!