Check that box!
The WMFH-LP.org website is where we will put our broadcast schedule and the link to our live stream.
Also, it is the place we will receive feedback from our listeners.
But the first job for the website is to act as a repository for information about our station and the progress we make toward getting it built and on the air.
One of the big hurdles is funding. We are roughing out a budget for our start-up costs. So far we are in the $10k range and still creeping up as we find the bits and pieces we need.
Just today I was investigating something called RDS. If you have an FM radio in your car, you probably have the feature where it shows the name of the station and maybe even the title and artist of the song that is playing. That is called RDS. We like RDS. We consider it a must. When people tune in to the middle of a chapter from War and Peace, we would like them to see “War & Peace chapter 12 Tolstoy” on their radio display. That would be very cool, and very useful. An RDS box adds that information to our transmission costs about $2k.
It seems like every piece of a radio station costs another $2k. Why is that? It must be a magic number in the radio world.
But never mind that now. We have a website!