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Schedule — February 19, 2016

Hour Title Author length
Midnight Punchkin E. Frere 30:26
1 AM The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield 33:55
2 AM The Idyl of Red Gulch Bret Harte 28:03
3 AM The Griffin and the Minor Canon Frank R. Stockton 30:55
4 AM The Right Eye of the Commander Bret Harte 21:39
5 AM The Man Without A Country Edward Everett Hale 60:42
6 AM Letters.. Letter 13 Mary Wollstonecraft 22:45
7 AM Honolulu W. Somerset Maugham 59:01
8 AM Miss Dalrymple’s Locket Gelett Burgess 28:05
9 AM The Hero of the Plague W. C. Morrow 32:04
10 AM Daniel O’Rourke’s Wonderful Voyage to the Moon Thomas Crofton Croker 21:09
11 AM A Piece of Steak Jack London 45:29
Noon The Mysterious Mummy Sax Rohmer 28:03
1 PM Peter: A Cat O’ One Tail, Charles Morley 42:08
2 PM The Village Uncle Nathaniel Hawthorne 25:55
3 PM Green Gardens Frances Noyes-Hart 30:17
4 PM Old Muskie the Rogue Levi T. Pennington 23:27
5 PM What Men Live By Leo Tolstoy 56:34
6 PM A Yellow Dog Bret Harte 23:17
7 PM Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 54:35
8 PM The Angel of the Odd Edgar Allan Poe 20:48
9 PM The Sword of Welleran Lord Dunsany 41:59
10 PM The Unfortunate Bride Aphra Behn 26:55
11 PM Green Gardens Frances Noyes-Hart 30:17

Progress Report

Well, I am sorry to say we did not make it to full-time on-the-air by the end of 2015.  But we are making some good progress and I am confident we will meet our deadline in the summer of 2016.

We have been running on-the-air tests, broadcasting for most weekends since November 14, 2015.  We missed a couple of weekends around Christmas for travel and other obligations.

The weekend operation has been very beneficial.  We have been figuring out our equipment and giving it a “burn-in” test.  Our transmitter actually had a failure which we were able to repair.  And our audio processing is getting better each time.  I think we have most of the system working in pretty good order.

For content, we have been using a schedule of selected items from our library of readings.  Each hour starts with a longer selection  (over 30 minutes)  or two medium selections (20-30 minutes) followed by fill-in at the end of the hour from shorter selections. We do get some repetition just because our library is not yet as big as it should be.  But I think it makes an interesting broadcast and I enjoy listening to it.

When we go “live”, we plan to have certain hours dedicated to chapters of longer books, that’s where we are aiming.  But even then we will have a need for the fill-in at the end of the hour.

We are learning how the scheduling software works, how the equipment works, and how the signal gets out.  Learning a lot!

Plans for the future, besides getting on-the-air full time, include internet streaming, addition of RDS to the over-the-air signal, and an integration of our broadcast schedule with the website and social media.

For the moment we have left fund-raising behind.  And we will probably need to come back to that as things develop.  Over the course of 2015 we made a number of presentations to local community groups and had a lot of positive feedback and a few contributions.  I would like to see that grow.  But we are focused on getting on the air to meet the cut-off date requirement of our broadcast license.

 

Test transmissions

We have most of the radio-station parts put together, enough to start running some transmission tests.  Since there is a lot of traffic in the area for the MSU/Alabama game, we thought today would be a good day to start.

If you do hear us, please feel free to send us an email at  contact@wmfh-lp.org  You can find us on Twitter @WMFHLP or on Facebook too.

If the signal sounds distorted we particularly want to know.  But if the signal is clear, that would be welcome, happy news.

On track for end-of year

Hello!

We have some progress to report.  We ordered and took delivery of (we hope) our last piece of required equipment.  Now we have some substantial configuration work to do.

Our goal is to be on the air before the end of the year and we are making steady progress.

And, a hearty Thank You to the Columbus Rotary Club who allowed us to make a presentation at their September meeting.