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keesan
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response 119 of 210:
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Sep 24 14:22 UTC 1998 |
Jim is curious what sort of radio they broadcast. Classical?
We went and listened to what the cable TV company carries on its cables, and
they have two classical 'stations', with selections repeated in random order
without any announcer. It was about $8 a month plus the basic cable fee, and
we don't feel like paying $30/month for what we can get free from the library
on CD, no explanations or even a schedule of broadcasts. For the cost of an
extra phone line and ISP service (about $30/month) plus a new computer we
could get RealAudio instead. Jim still has the pieces for a slow pentium.
Any idea when digital radio will start being broadcast?
I have not noticed satellite equipment at Kiwanis and electronics would
be the place it would come. We are occasionally offered satellite dishes,
nobody seems to want them now. A friend is making one into a solar oven by
pasting mylar over it and putting a black pot at the center, covered with a
large glass bowl, to pressure can his tomatoes during hot weather.
If you want any, try Freebies wanted. People will be grateful if you take
it away for them.
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n8nxf
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response 120 of 210:
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Sep 25 09:57 UTC 1998 |
See there? You could do this for free! There are hundreds of audio
programs on satellite. (I'm not talking Digital Cirect Satellite, I'm
talking about the big dish satellite. Not the same as cable either.)
A colleague here at work does a lot with satellite equipment that he
picked up for very cheap. He showed me the book on satellite audio
the other day. You could put one of those dishes on the house you are
building and the neighbors would be absolutely convinced that you are
really building a rocket ship ;-)
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keesan
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response 121 of 210:
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Sep 30 04:08 UTC 1998 |
Kiwanis has at least one large satellite dish (I cannot get Jim to answer my
question about them). What kind of electronics do you need to decode
satellite radio? Would a metal roof affect the signal reception? We get nice
radio reception running an antenna up into the cupola.
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krj
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response 122 of 210:
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Sep 30 17:44 UTC 1998 |
Today (Wednesday's) USA Today has an interesting article on two
companies which are planning to start satellite digital radio broadcasting
in late 1999. I'll hope to get back with a summary of the article
later; it's on page 4D if you can grab a copy of the paper.
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keesan
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response 123 of 210:
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Oct 2 19:44 UTC 1998 |
Thanks, we are not near a paper and await your summary.
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krj
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response 124 of 210:
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Oct 29 19:54 UTC 1998 |
I have been unable to find the newspaper, or to make the USA TODAY
web site work with my browsers. Sigh.
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lumen
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response 125 of 210:
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Oct 30 00:37 UTC 1998 |
I hope you're using Netscape? Internet Explorer sucks.
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keesan
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response 126 of 210:
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Dec 27 01:48 UTC 1999 |
We were treated to an evening of laptop classical music. In addition to the
few classical stations that broadcast (Yahoo has links to six of them, two
of which are Internet only, and these do not include WKAR, Seattle or London),
there is now something called netradio (www.netradio.com) which stays in
business by selling the CD's it plays, and claims 120 channels. Some are not
yet working (Baroque is broke) but we found about four classical stations:
piano, symphony, chamber, and easy listening, plus a classical talk channel.
And a host of genres I had never even heard of before, plus Native American.
I don't recall anything ethnic apart from this. We also managed to find the
Macedonian National Anthem (with a bad translation).
I wonder if you can at least read this site with lynx.
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keesan
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response 127 of 210:
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Dec 27 02:10 UTC 1999 |
You can read about Lalo, see the list of genres, and see instructions to look
at the list above (it is below, with lynx) or to the left (it is below), but
to purchase a CD your browser must accept cookies (lynx does not). They have
Holiday Music in several genres.
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goose
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response 128 of 210:
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Dec 28 02:05 UTC 1999 |
Was on eof those station WCPE?
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keesan
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response 129 of 210:
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Dec 29 21:45 UTC 1999 |
Yes. WCPE Raleigh NC, WFMR Milwaukee, WFMT Chicago, WRR Dallas, KRTS Houson
(why K not W?), also internet only Diskjockey and Operadio.
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goose
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response 130 of 210:
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Dec 30 01:47 UTC 1999 |
K west of the Mississippi River, W East of it. (With a few exceptions for very
old callsigns)
There was a good article about WCPE in the Jan issue of Monitoring Times.
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hematite
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response 131 of 210:
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Dec 31 07:40 UTC 1999 |
(Such as KDKA in Pittsburgh Pa, and surrounding vicinity)
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bruin
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response 132 of 210:
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Dec 31 17:56 UTC 1999 |
And how about the radio & TV stations who have three letters in their call
sign rather than the usual four?
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gull
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response 133 of 210:
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Dec 31 22:03 UTC 1999 |
I think the three-letter radio stations were the original "clear channel"
stations, like WJR. They were originally the only station on their
frequency, though that's not true any more, and most of them still don't
have to cut power at night.
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dbratman
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response 134 of 210:
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Jan 3 18:38 UTC 2000 |
3-letter stations tend to be older ones; at some point fairly early on
the FCC started expecting 4-letter signs but let the existing 3-letter
ones remain. There was not, I believe, any specific relationship
between number of letters and type of station.
Some versions of lynx do accept cookies.
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gull
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response 135 of 210:
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Jan 3 19:46 UTC 2000 |
As far as I know, though, no current version of lynx saves them from session
to session.
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keesan
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response 136 of 210:
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Apr 17 03:24 UTC 2000 |
We now have RealAudio going at Kiwanis. Why is it that some stations sound
weaker than others? What causes the long breaks? Do some stations allow more
people to use them at once? I had much better luck connecting to Bulgaria
and Turkey than to US stations Saturday evening. Eastern Europe was about
4 am and people were probably sleeping. Do you really need 16M RAM to run
RealAudio and if not, why was I told on a computer with 8M RAM that I had
insufficient bandwidth? (same speed computer as the one that works).
What versions of Netscape does RealAudio work with? Do you need an older
version for older Netscapes?
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rcurl
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response 137 of 210:
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Apr 17 05:00 UTC 2000 |
I can't answer all your questions, but the long breaks occur because
all the packets needed for continuity have not arrived yet. The system
stockpiles them so that there are enough, in order, to give you a
reasonable piece of music.
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orinoco
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response 138 of 210:
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Apr 17 09:25 UTC 2000 |
...and the problem with 8M RAM may be that RealAudio then can't stockpile as
many packets-worth of music as it would like to.
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keesan
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response 139 of 210:
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Apr 18 16:39 UTC 2000 |
Is this 'buffering' and 'network congestion'? We will try with 16M RAM
and the old version of RealAudio that came with bruin's computer when he gave
it to me.
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rcurl
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response 140 of 210:
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Apr 18 18:28 UTC 2000 |
It is 'buffering', done because of 'network congestion'. Incidentally,
the packets may (will) arrive out of order normally, because of the
processes for maximizing network capacity by continually rerouting them.
So you can get hung up because just one packet went "round the barn".
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keesan
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response 141 of 210:
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Apr 28 16:37 UTC 2000 |
I have been trying out RealAudio Player 3 and 4 for Win31. As promised, 3
works with 8M RAM and 4 with 16M. But most of the sites I try to listen at
say that they require a newer version, or G2, or that they cannot play files
of type vnd.rn-realaudio (and Netscape cannot find a plugin for this). Would
5.0 do any better? The later versions are only for Win95 or later. So far
I have managed to listened to one station from Chile (with a lot of network
congestion but good classical music) and one from the Czech Republic (very
fine quality reception but loud American pop music). Netradio.com never works
even on our Win96 computer with RealAudio 7 - why? How many different formats
are being broadcast? One station offered Windows Media or Realplayer 5 (it
would not do 4). I am tired of experimenting - has anyone compared 4 and 5?
All RealAudio talks about is improvements in the video. It works without MS
Video for WIndows if you don't mind frequent messages.
(4 does not work with 8M RAM, there is a message about bandwidth).
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keesan
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response 142 of 210:
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May 1 14:30 UTC 2000 |
RealAudio says to try version 5.0 but did not say whether it will play the
files that 4.0 will not. They give very short answers.
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keesan
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response 143 of 210:
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May 4 14:08 UTC 2000 |
WITR said Version 5 would work, but Real Audio keeps giving me error messages
and crashing Netscape. I did get WKAR working, very clearly.
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