In fifty-six years the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) has awarded only ten John H. Battison Awards for Lifetime Achievement. This tenth and most recent one was just bestowed upon Mark Persons, CPBE, CBNT, AMD. Since Mark got started in radio and had an engineering curiosity from an early age, we wanted to know about his early experiences that have informed his career as a broadcast engineer. Mark takes us through his early years and military duty, and describes how he “never had a Plan B”. Also, AES Past President, John Krivit, tells us about the 7 Audio Wonders of the World Tech Tour.

Show notes:

* From the SBE: Society of Broadcast Engineers Presents John H. Battison Award for Lifetime Achievement to Mark Persons* Radio World article: Mark Persons Receives SBE Lifetime Achievement Award* Mark Persons’ Tech Tips - A huge collection of tips learned from a lifetime of engineering* Thirty years of broadcast engineering articles by Mark Persons* Chris Tobin’s Tip: NanoVNA-F Portable Handheld Vector Network Analyzer* Kirk’s Tip: Telos Alliance Support page for generating SDP files for AES67 stream subscriptions

Guest

Mark Persons - M. W. Persons & Associates

Hosts

Chris Tobin, IP-SolutionistKirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

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