First Week New Year

FM?

MRAM, my 8-bit memory-bank does not remember your having an FM transmitter, although it is likely you have mentioned it.

Is it a known brand? What results are you hearing on FM?

And I remember many sawdust experiences from the past, and look forward to little metal pigtails from drilling holes in the aluminum box for the Big Talker Shortwave Transmitter.

Difficult to do sterile surgery in a workshop.

ABOUT 3-HOURS LATER -- Oh, you must mean WCFI-LP. Of course.

Some interesting things have turned up, of interest to all radio streamers, which have come to light in my SHOUTcast Server Tests.

First I'll describe this round of testing, then the interesting news...

I unchecked the "Make Public" choice on my 16 kb/s SHOUTcast mp3 mono server and observed that it no longer lists on the SHOUTcast YP Directory, but it can be selected and listened to from the Muses Flash Player on my website. It makes the stream private to my website only.

For comparison the AAC SHOUTcast stereo server was checked "Make Public" and was listed on the SHOUTcast YP Directory.

Now the informative news.

As most of us know, SHOUTcast is now owned by radionomy(dot)com, where the About page reports:

"Radionomy, SHOUTcast, TargetSpot, Hotmixradio and Winamp are all part of the Radionomy Group.

"Finally SHOUTcast is entirely free.

"SHOUTcast plans to monetize 55,000 radio stations."

Perhaps this is the business opportunity for your streaming radio plans.