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Jerry Olson
Chief EngineerJerry Olson is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from the University of Cincinnati. In addition to his technical career, he is also a musician who has played tuba and bass trombone with the Berkeley (CA) Symphony and numerous other groups, including the Spokane Symphony. In a previous life, Jerry was a semiconductor engineer in Silicon Valley but in 1989, he and his family moved to Cheney in order to pursue a saner lifestyle. Results have been mixed ...
Jerry joined Spokane Public Radio during the Gulf War in the mid-1990s. In an effort to gather different perspectives on the war, KPBX bought a special satellite receiver to broadcast the BBC news from midnight to 6 AM. SPR sought volunteers for the overnight shift. Jerry offered to do one night a week, but announcer Norvel Trosst had already signed up for every night. Consequently, Jerry was plugged into a Sunday afternoon shift and started fixing stuff during slow periods. He has been fixing stuff at SPR ever since.
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SPR Staff pull a piece of emergency equipment through snow in order to get to the Mica Peak transmitter
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Learn about SPR Chief Engineer Jerry Olsen's trip to Omak on January 17.
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A behind-the-scenes look at an interrupted signal