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Lewis Downey
Chief EngineerPhone: 801-581-5010
Email: ldowney@kuer.org
An itinerant son of the western soil, Lewis earned two degrees in geology, then fell into broadcast engineering in the 1980's by doing a radio show featuring music from the cutting edge of many a bygone era on a community station. Some experience as an amateur radio operator and running a phone patch station from Viet Nam in the 1970's didn't hurt. The rest is just history. Despite repeated warnings, he still insists on playing the harmonica.