Schedule for Sunday February 21 2016

Schedule
Hour Title Author length
Midnight The Pet Ellis Parker Butler 31:41
1 AM The Mixer P. G. Wodehouse 52:01
2 AM High-Water Mark Bret Harte 23:53
3 AM The Spring Frock P. G. Wodehouse 35:50
4 AM The Little Master Of The Sky Manuel Komroff (18901974) 27:50
5 AM Philip of Pokanoket Washington Irving 47:56
6 AM Letters.. Letter 22 Mary Wollstonecraft 21:48
7 AM The Spectre Bridegroom Washington Irving 39:47
8 AM The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen 21:15
9 AM A Woman is Only a Woman P. G. Wodehouse 40:52
10 AM The Garden of Paradise Hans Christian Andersen 29:48
11 AM Ixion in Heaven Benjamin Disraeli 48:01
Noon Hearts and Crosses O. Henry 28:11
1 PM My Roomy Ring Lardner 48:20
2 PM Visit To The Asylum For Aged And Decayed Punsters Oliver Wendell Holmes 20:07
3 PM A Room at the Hermitage P. G. Wodehouse 44:29
4 PM John Bull Washington Irving 25:30
5 PM Jeeves & the Chump Cyril P. G. Wodehouse 36:18
6 PM Berenice Edgar Allan Poe 26:29
7 PM The Great Ruby Robbery Grant Allen 59:46
8 PM Accessories After the Fact E. Temple Thurston 28:49
9 PM A Rehabilitation of Charles II Stephen Leacock 50:25
10 PM The Devil and the Deep Sea Stephen Leacock 24:04
11 PM A Jury of her Peers Susan Glaspell 52:51

February 20 2016

Schedule
Hour Title Author length
Midnight The Wild Swans Hans Christian Andersen 34:01
1 AM A Piece of Steak Jack London 45:29
2 AM The Heel of Achilles P. G. Wodehouse 26:18
3 AM The Lamplighter Charles Dickens 38:15
4 AM The Right Eye of the Commander Bret Harte 21:39
5 AM The Lion’s Share Arnold Bennett 30:32
6 AM The Garden Lodge Willa Cather 28:51
7 AM Didaco and Violenta William Painter 50:30
8 AM The Necklace Guy de Maupassant 20:49
9 AM Mary Smith Booth Tarkington 44:41
10 AM The Outcasts of Poker Flat Bret Harte 24:54
11 AM The Indiscretion of Elsbeth Bret Harte 36:54
Noon The Last Sixty Minutes Susan Glaspell 22:43
1 PM The Duplicity of Hargraves O’ Henry 30:28
2 PM Bulger’s Reputation Bret Harte 26:46
3 PM The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace 46:03
4 PM Conversational Depravity William Wirt Howe 26:08
5 PM The Wit of Porportuk Jack London 50:50
6 PM Bikku Matti Gudrun Thorne-Thompson 21:33
7 PM When the World Was Young Jack London 37:10
8 PM Notes By Flood And Field, Part 2 The Flood Bret Harte 28:37
9 PM The Valor of Cappen Varra Poul Anderson 31:59
10 PM The Right Eye Of The Commander Bret Harte 22:42
11 PM Brooksmith Henry James 52:24

Schedule — February 19, 2016

Schedule
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

Construction

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.