NAB Engineering Achievement Award Winner - Radio

Ronald Rackley
Partner, du Treil, Lundin and Rackley, Inc.
Sarasota, FL

Ron Rackley is an electrical engineering graduate of Clemson University, where his studies were specialized in the area of electromagnetic fields. He worked as a radio station chief engineer and was a consultant to other nearby stations during college. Following his formal education, he worked for two different engineering firms and a major manufacturer of antenna system equipment before co-founding a predecessor to his present firm, du Treil, Lundin & Rackley, Inc., in 1983.

Ron is a member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has served as President of the former and Vice President of the Broadcast Technology Society of the latter. Ron has published numerous articles and papers relating to broadcast antenna systems, and has participated in writing chapters on mediumwave antennas for two college-level engineering handbooks. Ron particularly enjoys applying modern technology and analysis methods to AM directional antenna systems. He has adjusted directional antenna patterns ranging in complexity to twelve towers and in power to two megawatts. He has designed a number of multi-frequency AM antenna systems as well. He was a consultant to USA Digital Radio during their early years of digital radio development and has recently been called upon to assist numerous client stations with evaluating and improving their AM antenna systems for HD Radio.

Ron is a registered Professional Engineer. He holds General Class Radiotelephone and Amateur Extra licenses from the FCC. He resides in Sarasota, Florida.