Is he anything like this guy, fumbling with a Walkman?
Barry of Blue Bucket Radio 1620
It has nothing to do with that Russian thing.
Works wonders in a car/truck/suv, they have made it stronger over the years.
It's velcro on one side and sticky tape on the other side. Very handy.
Barry of Blue Bucket Radio 1620
Almost old enough to fart dust, almost.
Ha, Barry! The second one down! That meme says it all! Hey, he's really an OK guy. I have to remove breakables and things he might choke on, but...
Doug
As usual, I'm currently playing music on my station. Right now, Poison's "Nothin' But A Good Time" is on. 🙂
Got the wires tied and up off the floor. Duct taped the transmitter to the far end of the table, against the wall. Got feedback from a few neighbors. "Play the Oldies!" Unanimous. Fine! I have the entire TM Century Oldies Library on CD! Some 250 CDs! GoldDisc3!
20 cuts per CD, you do the math! LOL!
Easy show this morning! Ping-ponged Oldies CDs back and forth on the Stanton C-501!
Doug
Worked on a problem with my Chicken Man plays. I try to play the same show 2x per day at specified intervals (by request from some listeners that like it). I noticed the event schedular was calling for it, loading the intro and outro, but no show at random intervals. I think I got it straightened out. Tomorrow will tell!
I need to do some tranmitter relocation work, but rain is in the event schedular for the weekend LOL.
I have a Toys for Tots Ride Sunday that will kill much of the day... 85 miles of dirt and mud on the adventure bike. I hope the sun comes out by then!! I will probably do an aftermath show for the part 15 when I get back! "Craig was cold, Craig fell in the dirt and mud at mile 35, everyone laughed at Craig. etc..."
Thats a pretty great collection to have Dugger.
Ya know, Miighty, I've been paying Oldies 5 hours a day for a week. Not even halfway through. Not a single repeat. LOL!
Doug
When I was doing oldies I think the playlist had 96 hours to go through before it repeated. With the 80s format it lasts 59 hours. (This assuming the songs are played back to back with zero interruption)
Today the Optimod 9000A goes back into the part 15 airchain.
I've based my classic formats on my BillBoard Hot 100 library. (It spans 1955-2012)
Wish I had that TM Century! Those don't come easy.
These didn't. I had to fish them out of the dumpster after they tossed them. I also got this library:
Plus these:
And these:
Alternative Rock from about 2000. Not bad. Another lucky find...
Doug
I have slowly been integrating Christmas music into the programming. I will run back to back Christmas music beginning Christmas Eve with a regular programming break, and then start again Christmas day/morning.
I recorded station ID's with a Christmas theme to match up during the full time Christmas programming.
I also recorded some promos to let people know we will be airing Christmas music at those times. Not sure how many hours I will air yet, but in my opinion too much Christmas music gets old fast!!!
I have been approached over the last several months by numerous local people that have the drive and connections to help me transition my Part 15 to a community radio licensed station. Of those, there are some that I would like to see involved because of their expertise and interests.
I am requesting that they meet me for an initial board forming meeting with goals to bring us into an actual legal entity.
Today I roughed in a Powerpoint presentation for the initial meeting.
Since we are a very long time away from any chance of getting a broadcast license, one of my points is improving our current Part 15 AM with multiple transmitters. If they have the interest and can get me funding, I will make it happen. I am also hoping we can fully fund our streaming to bring it to the public.
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Meanwhile I am considering adding a new segment of music to the current line up.
I play Tim's Polka hour on Sunday nite. Afterward, I revert back to classic country with OTR at 10. I am considering adding a segment of easy listening / big band / vocal music. It might be a niche for some of my older listeners. I even enjoy some of it!
Hope you get your Broadcasting license as you sound like a good community Radio project.
"I'd recommend a Desktop, they seem to not hum so much."
No hum or other annoying audio artifcats with a desktop, at least not with this HP Pavilion p6 series. It's been a strong workhorse for my part 15 station for years now.
Ram is 6 GB
Processor AMD E2-3200 APU with Radeon HD Graphic x2
Graphics Gallium 0.4 on AMD SUMO2 DRM 2.43.0 LLVM 3.8.0
OS 64 Bit Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
1 TB HDD
Can't say for sure what the sound card is, but it is digital and boasts some great settings for broadcast applications.
This desktop was built for Audio/Video media creation.
Edit: I did away with Windows 7 , Ubuntu 16.04 is impressive as it takes less space to install and is not RAM intensive like Windows. My only beef is 6 GB Ram is the limit with this motherboard. I do however have space for another hard drive and digitl input/outputs.
I'm not sure about yours, but every HP I've owned had realtek audio on board. I've had good luck with HP and used an HP Pavillion with XP as the main automation for atleast 8 years until I finally replaced it this year with a refurb Lenovo and Win7.