Home New  Equipment Used Equipment Specials Our Office What We Do Customers Rate Card Web Links Personal Contact Us	Radio Broadcast Technical Consulting and Sales  10032 Island Drive, Brainerd, MN  56401 Phone: 218.829.1326    Fax:  218.829.2026
	Achievements of Mark and Paula Persons

• Mark Persons has over 30 years of radio broadcast engineering experience.
  
  
• We were the first Circuit Research Labs dealer in 1977.

• We are one of the original five Sine Systems dealers in 1990.
  
  
• We installed more than 40 Motorola, BE, and Delta AM Stereo Systems.

• Our company sold 102 EAS (Emergency Alert System) units, most with two and three station relay panels, the first year EAS was required.

• Built ten new radio stations including five AM directional phasor systems from the ground up since 1980.

• Mark Persons designed nine radio broadcast products, which were manufactured by Zercom Corporation of Merrifield, Minnesota.

• Mark and Paula Persons have together written over 120 articles for radio broadcast industry trade publications.

• We have been using computers since 1984 and have been building our own computer systems for ourselves and for sale to our broadcast clients since 1992.

• Mark Persons is a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and has been a Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer since 1983.  In 2001,  Mark became a Certified Broadcast Network Technologist.
  
  
• We sold and or tuned more than two dozen AM unipole feed systems for AM broadcast towers.
  
  
• This web site has been on the World Wide Web since February 1996.  We originally wrote it one piece of HTML code at a time.  Recently, we have been aided by Microsoft Front Page 2000.  This software helps us write more quickly and effectively.

• "Ham Radio" is spoken here.  Mark Persons holds an Amateur Extra license.   The call sign is WØMH.   Mark was President of the Brainerd Area Amateur Radio Club from October 1997 to October 2000.  Paula is also an Amateur Extra.  Her call sign is WØHA.
  
  
• We are a Minnesota licensed Alarm and Communications contractor.  Licensing is done by the Minnesota Board of Electricity.  Technology Systems Contractor.  License number TS00382.  Mark Persons - Limited Power Technician  PL06203.  Paula Persons - Limited Power Technician  PL06204 
  
  
• We are involved with Microsoft Corporation as a beta tester for new software.  So far, we have tested Windows Millennium and Windows XP.  Each project lasted 10 months or more.
   
  
• We are a contributing member of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. 
  
  
• Mark is a member of the American Wings Air Museum.

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