<html><head><base href="x-msg://95/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">At last, we're included in the conversation:<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Jerry Fraley" <<a href="mailto:operations@kzyx.org">operations@kzyx.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>A proposal, and I need your collective memory....</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 29, 2016 9:06:19 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"'Angela DeWitt'" <<a href="mailto:ms.adewitt@gmail.com">ms.adewitt@gmail.com</a>>, "'General Manager'" <<a href="mailto:gm@kzyx.org">gm@kzyx.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:membership@kzyx.org">membership@kzyx.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:uw@kzyx.org">uw@kzyx.org</a>>, "'Barbara Lamb'" <<a href="mailto:blamb@pacific.net">blamb@pacific.net</a>>, "'Bob Vaughan'" <<a href="mailto:est.prophet@yahoo.com">est.prophet@yahoo.com</a>>, "'Cheri Christianson'" <<a href="mailto:chrisarn@mcn.org">chrisarn@mcn.org</a>>, "'Chris Skyhawk'" <<a href="mailto:hawkrad@mcn.org">hawkrad@mcn.org</a>>, "'Colleen Bassett'" <<a href="mailto:colleenb@pacific.net">colleenb@pacific.net</a>>, "'Dave Barre'" <<a href="mailto:dabarre@wildblue.net">dabarre@wildblue.net</a>>, "'Diane Hering'" <<a href="mailto:dhering@pacific.net">dhering@pacific.net</a>>, "'Doug Livingston'" <<a href="mailto:livingstonconsulting@hughes.net">livingstonconsulting@hughes.net</a>>, "'Doug Mosel'" <<a href="mailto:dmosel@wildblue.net">dmosel@wildblue.net</a>>, "'Eric Labowitz'" <<a href="mailto:lab@pacific.net">lab@pacific.net</a>>, "'Floriane Weyrich'" <<a href="mailto:fweyrich@msn.com">fweyrich@msn.com</a>>, "'Fred Wooley'" <<a href="mailto:freddybudd@starband.net">freddybudd@starband.net</a>>, "'Gordon Black'" <<a href="mailto:gblack@mcn.org">gblack@mcn.org</a>>, "'Greg Krouse'" <<a href="mailto:earthdance@saber.net">earthdance@saber.net</a>>, "'Jamie Roberts'" <<a href="mailto:jamier@mcn.org">jamier@mcn.org</a>>, "'Jeffrey Blankfort'" <<a href="mailto:jblankfort@earthlink.net">jblankfort@earthlink.net</a>>, "'Jeremy Dodds'" <<a href="mailto:Skaselecter@yahoo.com">Skaselecter@yahoo.com</a>>, "'Jim Heid'" <<a href="mailto:Jim@jimheid.com">Jim@jimheid.com</a>>, "'Jimmy Humble'" <<a href="mailto:jimmy@pacific.net">jimmy@pacific.net</a>>, "'Johanna Cummings'" <<a href="mailto:JC@wildoak.org">JC@wildoak.org</a>>, "'Katharine Cole'" <<a href="mailto:katharine@katharinecole.com">katharine@katharinecole.com</a>>, "'Linda MacElwee'" <<a href="mailto:lsmacelwee@hotmail.com">lsmacelwee@hotmail.com</a>>, "'Lorena Calvo-Evans'" <<a href="mailto:lorejim8@yahoo.com">lorejim8@yahoo.com</a>>, "'Marcia Lotter'" <<a href="mailto:mlotter@mcn.org">mlotter@mcn.org</a>>, "'Marvin Trotter'" <<a href="mailto:trotterm@co.mendocino.ca.us">trotterm@co.mendocino.ca.us</a>>, "'Michael Arago'" <<a href="mailto:mmbarago@mcn.org">mmbarago@mcn.org</a>>, "'Norman de Vall'" <<a href="mailto:ndevall@mcn.org">ndevall@mcn.org</a>>, "'Patrick Gomes'" <<a href="mailto:gomes@mcn.org">gomes@mcn.org</a>>, "'Pippa Thomas'" <<a href="mailto:pipsteve@pacific.net">pipsteve@pacific.net</a>>, "'Richard Herr'" <<a href="mailto:eandrherr@dishmail.net">eandrherr@dishmail.net</a>>, "'Rick Blaufeld'" <<a href="mailto:rick@mendocinoguitars.com">rick@mendocinoguitars.com</a>>, "'Ron Reed'" <<a href="mailto:mrdjreed@comcast.net">mrdjreed@comcast.net</a>>, "'Steve Garner'" <<a href="mailto:Sharonart_95432@yahoo.com">Sharonart_95432@yahoo.com</a>>, "'Tim Bray'" <<a href="mailto:tbray@wildblue.net">tbray@wildblue.net</a>>, "'Verge Belanger'" <<a href="mailto:contactverge@yahoo.com">contactverge@yahoo.com</a>><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I have a proposal in mind in regard to the Internet streaming side of the KZYX broadcasts… Bear with me here:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">We currently create 3 streams in real-time:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> 96 Kbps, mono encoded as stereo with high sample rate (44.1Khz)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> 32 Kbps, mono encoded as ????? same sample rate [This is a target for “dialup” users,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> and like, when did I ever get 32K<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> on a dialup, like, um, never]<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> 96 Kbps, mono encoded as ???? (checking) for a Shoutcast server<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Now I draw upon the collective memory about the Shoutcast connection—is it used for anything real??? The main stream is used to feed the jukebox (and more on that later, soon….) Shoutcast is a stream frontend, an “Internet Radio” index of sorts, basically micro-streamer marketing, however, this organization is a radio station, we absolutely /are/ a marketing organization, we don’t need the shoutcast exposure, it draws consumers away from our main product and the outlets for consuming them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">And in my opinion, that outlet should be of high quality.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The proposal: I want to totally eliminate the Shoutcast stream and dedicate that bandwidth to create a quality full-stereo stream.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Ugly—the small mixer that is used to control the levels on the streamer has reached the end of it’s life. The thing operates so hot that over time the solder connections inside are suffering, the pan pot unseats and leaves the right channel at 0db, it’s annoying to have to check it so much.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Bad -- when I was untangling cables in the rack last night, I discovered the source audio for the rack is being drawn from an output meant for an FM transmitter—it’s not an audio output at all (it just so happens that the low end of the IF /is/ the MONO part of the signal, but it’s a signal meant to be connected to an audio input, so I’m just shaking my head on this one.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Good – the AudioIP system blade in the rack has many extra outputs (only one really used, that’s the transmitter digital feed), and I want to create an analog mirror output and feed that to a new little mixer, ultimately creating a stereo input to the streamer device.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">[Oh, I see Johanna is already on top of the sound of The Bad and The Ugly in a different email. Awesome! So, memories, feedback, help me out here folks, I want to move forward unless the current configuration is critical to some world domination plan…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font size="2" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">J</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Thanks all for tolerating my soapboxing!<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; ">Jerry Fraley</span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><em><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Interim</span></font></i></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Operations Director<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">KZYX-FM & KZYZ-FM</span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">707-895-2324<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><a href="mailto:jerry_fraley@yahoo.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">jerry_fraley@yahoo.com</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>