[Kzyxtalk] Positive results. (was Re: [MCN-Announce]- Toying with the ether, right now, 3am.)

[Marco McClean]

     The test worked great. A little unnaturally compressed upward for 
volume, but not as  much as all the commercial stations and all the 
expensive NPR shows on so-called noncommercial stations do all the time 
on purpose.

     It's a half hour set of music from my library, and I've put a link 
on http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress for you to download it. It's at the 
bottom of the current post there. The link will work for a week or so 
and then I'll delete it, so.

     Also there, at the top of Saturday's post (2016-08-13), is still a 
link to go get last Friday's Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show. 
It's not too late; in fact now would be a fine time.

     And, like with every Friday night since the comet flattened our 
giant discount carpet-remnant-reclaiming warehouse, I'll be doing 
another live informative and educational show this Friday night from 9pm 
to 3 or 4am, and you can listen via knyo.org (and click on Listen Live), 
or TuneIn.com (and look for KNYO-LP), or if you're in or near Fort Bragg 
there's 107.7fm, or if you're in or near Ukiah and it's after midnight, 
when KMEC joins, there's 105.1fm for you. Just giving you some options.

     Also I'm getting a cold, dammit --sore throat and sniffles and 
aching eyes-- so that should be interesting. I'll probably sound like 
Tom Waits by then.


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On 8/17/2016 2:58 AM, Marco McClean wrote:
 >
 >      I'm trying out some fresh equipment in a few minutes. I'm at 
Juanita's house in Cotati. KNYO (Fort Bragg) is set up in such a way 
that I can just check the schedule so I don't screw anyone else up and 
get on the air and play with the transmitter and test things-- it 
reminds me of the middle 1980s when I was building transmitters in the 
kitchen, in Caspar. I'd turn on what I'd made and put a stack of records 
on the changer and wander up the street in the night, in the fog, with a 
pocket radio, to see how far it went. We were about 100 yards away from 
the sea cliffs, across the cow field. When the air was right the power 
wires would arc over the insulators to the wood and make blue snaps. 
Caspar is the only place I ever noticed that happening.
 >
 >      I was teaching at the Whale School in Albion, then, doing radio 
drama over the phone from the Whale School to KKUP in Cupertino, making 
little Tesla coils with the kids. I remember how magical it felt when 
Juanita and I would sit on the floor in the kitchen in our first place 
together, with the lamp off, playing with long sparks from one of these 
things and, when our eyes had adjusted, admiring the little clouds of 
blue corona discharge on the corners of the woodstove and on everything 
else metal nearby. I associate that magical feeling with the smell of 
ozone. It's still a kind of magical feeling turning something on that 
you've made with your hands, even though it's just familiar computers 
and the web anymore (on this end, anyway).
 >
 >      I'll be going on the air at 3am (five minutes away for about a 
half hour, playing music and calibrating the machinery. If you're up and 
you want to, you can listen via http://knyo.org (then click on Listen 
Live), or go to TuneIn.com and look for KNYO-LP. Of course, if you're in 
or near Fort Bragg, you can listen at 107.7fm.
 >

-- 
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com