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Post by sparepart on Dec 30, 2018 21:20:45 GMT
A studio full of students from the local high school who are interested in the "why" behind the technology....
....And yes, that *is* a bell system phone booth in the studio.
SP
Photo courtesy of Lois Wilkes Photography, All Rights Reserved
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Post by End80 on Dec 30, 2018 21:39:09 GMT
Cool, what's the rest of the story?
As for the phone booth, I'd love to have one... That one there I'm guessing is from the 1980s. Any decade would be fine by me! |
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Post by sparepart on Dec 30, 2018 23:22:14 GMT
Our studio is located at a Science-History museum in Southern New Jersey. We started out doing podcasts and transmogrified into a part15 station. Students were a school tour and had a bunch of questions. Not fluff, but solid questions that took time to answer. Link: www.compdecon.orgPlenty of wooden phone booths out there, very few aluminum ones left as they were scrapped and melted down. SP |
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Post by Admin on Dec 31, 2018 1:28:43 GMT
I'd like to see more participation from our high school. I built and operate our City's LPFM station, WCFI-LP. We partnered with the high school. They created a broadcast class and typically get 20 to 30 students. They built a nice studio with commercial equipment, spent about $24k. The students are supposed to produce a one hour show to run weekdays. They started out pretty good but seem to have lost steam this year. I'm lucky to get one show a week. I'd have jumped at a chance to be in a class like that while in school. The person running the class had some college radio experience so he got "stuck" with the class. He doesn't seem overly enthused although he maintains the kids are the problem. Unfortunately, no one else at the City knows anything about running the station. I'm the only one there with an FCC Commercial license. I'm supposed to retire from the City job this April. I'd love to stay on part time (or even volunteer) to run the station and become an active part of the high school class. I've read about some very "radio" active high school station programs. We'll see... |
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Post by sparepart on Jan 1, 2019 17:53:17 GMT
Keeping a sustainable level of interest and financial support is difficult. Our team is working on improving the relationship with the local school district(s) to avoid stagnation.
That was also the drive behind our electing to to form a separate nonprofit to manage the finances.
SP
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Post by Admin on Jan 1, 2019 21:14:40 GMT
Fortunately, there is very little overhead required to keep our station on the air.
Unless we suffer a lightning strike, equipment maintenance to keep us on air is minimal.
I put our live studio together for less than $1000. No rent or utilities on the City side of the operation.
If the school drops their program, we can continue. Currently we have one live show on Sundays, five canned shows that run everyday and except for the occasional live remotes the other programming is full automation.
I'm trying to convince our administration to let me bring on more live programming. I have lined up a live, local music show which starts January 28th, 9pm. A one hour live show with local talent. This should be fun.
In the mean time, we'll keep hammering the school to ramp up the interest there. After all, they were supposed to provide the majority of the programming.
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Post by sparepart on Jan 2, 2019 0:34:40 GMT
Any tie in with your local emergency management agency?
During Super-storm Sandy, radio was the last lifeline for many in the northeast.
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Post by Admin on Jan 4, 2019 0:21:21 GMT
No, although I'm the primary for the station operation it's secondary to my main responsibilities. As such there's no time to work with other agencies.
I'll retire soon and I'm working with the administration to let me continue working with the station. Maybe then I'd have time to develop the station.
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