[WXBH-Discuss] Status Report: Hiccups cured, no meeting this weekend

[John Hicks]

No Meeting. As I mentioned in my reply to Rick, I'm going to be holed up 
in Spencer County for the weekend trying to get caught up on a personal 
project so there will not be a meeting this weekend. (I will try to 
check my email but may be away from the Internet. You can contact me via 
phone at 213-0428.)

In the meantime, here is a quick status report:

Time-share begins. Fern Creek's WFHS went back on the air on Monday. And 
so our time-sharing schedule began for the first time.
WFHS is on the air:
--Weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
--Tuesday and Friday afternoons and evenings from 4:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
We have the remaining hours:
--All weekend.
--All night from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
--Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons and evenings from 4:00 p.m. on.

We plan to continue to stream 24/7.

Hiccups cured. We feel pretty sure we have found the reason for the 
"hiccups," the breaks in our signal that have occurred since we moved 
into our studio. It appears to be due to the router we were using. Once 
we are sure we have cured the problem we will resume streaming at 128k, 
much better quality than the current 64k we have been streaming lately.

Streaming temporarily down, but broadcast continues. As I explained in 
my reply to Rick, while curing the hiccups, I managed to screw up the 
configuration of the sound cards. I'm working on solving that now, but 
in the meantime streaming is down but we are broadcasting on air, 
actually rebroadcasting Nashville's WRFN (taking care to do our station 
ID at the top of each hour).

Studio is now air-conditioned. We have successfully jury rigged a window 
AC unit to cool the studio. It's just an old 5000 BTU unit that is not 
at all sufficient for these 106 degree days, but hopefully will suffice 
once the weather gets more reasonable.

Programming. We are expecting new programming from three sources. One 
new music show and two topical talk shows. (We still need much more!)

Next Step: Sound Studio. As soon as we get the streaming going, we will 
start to work on miking the studio so we can do recording and live 
programming.

And after that our plate will still be very full: Outreach, 
fund-raising, listener feedback via the web site, program web pages and 
archives, cetera et cetera.

--John


-- 
John Hicks

When replying to me personally, please use "johnhicks" instead of "johnlist" in the email address.