Local Technicians Win 2nd Place At Cable-Tec Games

Madison Communications Technicians, Bryan Huffstutler, Myron High, Randy Miller, and Erick Goode attended the SCTE Lincoln Chapter Cable-Tec Games in Bloomington, Ill., on Thursday, June 27.

The SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) is an international organization that is split up between 68 chapters. The four technicians did an outstanding job representing Madison Communications and the SCTE Gateway Chapter competing against eight other teams consisting of technicians from Mediacom and Comcast.

Madison Communications took home Second place overall along with technician, Bryan Huffstutler taking home Second overall, First in Drop Connection, Second in OTDR, and Third in Cable Splicing. Randy Miller took home Second in Meter Reading, and Erick Goode took home First in Jeopardy and Third place in MTDR.

MTDR is short for Metallic Time Domain Reflectometer that is used for finding faults in metallic cables such as twisted pair copper and coax. OTDR is short for Optical Time Domain Reflectometer that is used for finding faults in fiber cables.

Out of the 20 potential medals to be awarded at the contest, the Madison technicians took home eight of them.

The Madison team looks forward to their future advancements within the SCTE Gateway Chapter and are honored to be a part of this international organization.

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