Liberty
& Justice 87.9 returned to the air at approximately 6 AM on
Friday 9/27 through a computer with a new hard drive and operating
system. Also, due to apparent processor limitations, I had to cut back
to only one stream for Troubadour 1700 at 64k. Encoding two 64k
streams, Sound Solutions audio processing, plus broadcast automation is
a tall order for any single computer. Note the current stream URL:
http://67.212.163.37:8100
Friday, October 4, 2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Liberty & Justice 87.9 off the air due to hard drive failure
Liberty & Justice 87.9 has been off the air for
nearly a week
due to a damaged hard drive. The trouble shooting and replacement
process has been far more troublesome and time consuming than it should
have been, thanks to the egos and proprietary obsessions of certain
computer manufacturers during the late XP and Vista eras. The Emachines
computer that manages L&J 87.9's air product "came" my way as a
nearly new unit. It wasn't my purchasing choice. In less than three
years, it has blown both a motherboard and a hard drive.
After experiences with three of their products, and reading tales of woe from others, I'm convinced the Emachines line exists solely as a dumping ground for substandard parts from otherwise quality vendors such as Seagate and Intel. My advice if you own one: don't replace the failed part with an Emachines OEM. Find a similar replacement directly from the part manufacturer. Anyway, since I can't use the recovery discs I have decided upon an expensive upgrade to Windows 8. Either way, I would have to rebuild all the software from scratch. The station may be back on this weekend. If not,
it will be early next week.
The timing of this development couldn't have been worse. Between this and other pressing matters, no work on the proposal mentioned below has been done in nine days. It is extremely frustrating!!
Also, due to the disappearance of title streaming several months ago, I have added an additional stream (at least for now) for Troubadour 1700 that restores the feature. The new stream URL is as follows:
http://67.212.163.37:8010.
Both the new stream and the older one are now encoding in AAC+ and the quality is superb.
After experiences with three of their products, and reading tales of woe from others, I'm convinced the Emachines line exists solely as a dumping ground for substandard parts from otherwise quality vendors such as Seagate and Intel. My advice if you own one: don't replace the failed part with an Emachines OEM. Find a similar replacement directly from the part manufacturer. Anyway, since I can't use the recovery discs I have decided upon an expensive upgrade to Windows 8. Either way, I would have to rebuild all the software from scratch. The station may be back on this weekend. If not,
it will be early next week.
The timing of this development couldn't have been worse. Between this and other pressing matters, no work on the proposal mentioned below has been done in nine days. It is extremely frustrating!!
Also, due to the disappearance of title streaming several months ago, I have added an additional stream (at least for now) for Troubadour 1700 that restores the feature. The new stream URL is as follows:
http://67.212.163.37:8010.
Both the new stream and the older one are now encoding in AAC+ and the quality is superb.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
COMING SOON: MINIMUM WAGE MEDIA'S CROWD FUNDING CAMPAIGN
BRING OUR PROGRAMMING TO TWO LICENSED COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS ROUTE 2 CORRIDOR
This is the "goal of goals" and I am determined to make it happen one way or
another, either through outright purchase of the facilities, an "LMA to
ownership" arrangement, or by challenging the FCC license renewals of
two local stations. (All Massachusetts radio stations have their FCC
licenses up for renewal in April 2014.) It all depends upon the level
of support we achieve, which of course, depends upon how effectively we
publicize the effort far and wide among our target demographics and
among entrepreneurial professionals.
Are you tired of local radio station ownerships dominated by fundamentalist Christians,
neo-conservatives, and those of the lowest common denominator of
American mainstream "thought"? Would you like to finally have a local
radio management that is anti-war, anti-corporate, pro-economic
justice, pro-natural, organic, and local food, pro-vegan, pro-health
freedom, anti-GMO, and pro-small business entrepreuerialism,
craftsmanship, and the arts? Then you need to support this effort.
If you would like to see the return of folk music to the local radio dial
(in the spirit of WSLE and WADN), along with new age music, world
music, and Americana (and possibly on weekends, 1960's and 70's oldies
and forgotten FM tracks, 1980's country, Brazilian roots music, and other
forms of GENUINE music), then you need to get behind this effort
and spread the word.
Our crowd funding effort on Indiegogo.com will be announced here when it is ready.
Currently, I am bolstering my professional and social networking in anticipation of it.
Stay tuned!
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS ROUTE 2 CORRIDOR
This is the "goal of goals" and I am determined to make it happen one way or
another, either through outright purchase of the facilities, an "LMA to
ownership" arrangement, or by challenging the FCC license renewals of
two local stations. (All Massachusetts radio stations have their FCC
licenses up for renewal in April 2014.) It all depends upon the level
of support we achieve, which of course, depends upon how effectively we
publicize the effort far and wide among our target demographics and
among entrepreneurial professionals.
Are you tired of local radio station ownerships dominated by fundamentalist Christians,
neo-conservatives, and those of the lowest common denominator of
American mainstream "thought"? Would you like to finally have a local
radio management that is anti-war, anti-corporate, pro-economic
justice, pro-natural, organic, and local food, pro-vegan, pro-health
freedom, anti-GMO, and pro-small business entrepreuerialism,
craftsmanship, and the arts? Then you need to support this effort.
If you would like to see the return of folk music to the local radio dial
(in the spirit of WSLE and WADN), along with new age music, world
music, and Americana (and possibly on weekends, 1960's and 70's oldies
and forgotten FM tracks, 1980's country, Brazilian roots music, and other
forms of GENUINE music), then you need to get behind this effort
and spread the word.
Our crowd funding effort on Indiegogo.com will be announced here when it is ready.
Currently, I am bolstering my professional and social networking in anticipation of it.
Stay tuned!
The continuous hack attacks against LibertyandJustice1640.com have been dealt with
As we approach the two day mark of LibertyandJustice1640.com being hack
free and no longer blacklisted by Google, I think it is safe to say
that we are largely out of the woods. I certainly hope it stays that
way. I had to hire professionals at some expense to clean up the
damage, plug the holes, and watch the site around the clock for the
next twelve months. There is also evidence to indicate the attacks have
been going on for years. This is the only site I own that has had to
endure such persistent hacking, which of course, makes me suspicious.
I want to welcome back everyone who could not access
LibertyandJustice1640.com over the past month. I assure you I had
no intention to infect your computers with malware!
free and no longer blacklisted by Google, I think it is safe to say
that we are largely out of the woods. I certainly hope it stays that
way. I had to hire professionals at some expense to clean up the
damage, plug the holes, and watch the site around the clock for the
next twelve months. There is also evidence to indicate the attacks have
been going on for years. This is the only site I own that has had to
endure such persistent hacking, which of course, makes me suspicious.
I want to welcome back everyone who could not access
LibertyandJustice1640.com over the past month. I assure you I had
no intention to infect your computers with malware!
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Frequency Change for Liberty
& Justice 87.5
As
of early this morning, Liberty & Justice 87.5 changed frequency
to 87.9 FM. The hip hop pirate in Nashua that had been operating at
87.9 has not been on the air all year, and it's becoming evident that
most OEM car radios of the past ten years can't tune 87.5. I still plan
to reintegrate the two version of L&J, abandoning any old
channel 6 band frequency, if I can ever find the time. Between all the
technical problems I'm
encountering (such as the loss of the right channel at 95.1 with a
transmitter that's only a month old), the constant extreme weather, and
working an unrelated slave job seven days a week, I'm exhausted! I've
got a stack of over 20 new CD's to add to the Troubadour playlist and
the process is taking forever. Everything is so stale, but we're going
to have to live with it a bit longer. Computers don't save work. They
create the illusion you can do a project that took ten people to do 30
years ago. It's a lie.
Friday, June 14, 2013
The Audio Streams have been restored
Troubadour 1700/97.9 - http://50.58.47.66:7010
Troubadour 1700/97.9 - http://50.58.47.66:7010
Liberty & Justice 87.5 - http://50.58.47.66:7012
Liberty & Justice 1640/95.1 - http://50.58.47.66:7014
The new server is in Orlando, FL. The old one was in Portsmouth, NH.
The listen by phone service from Zeno Radio has been updated and is now functioning. The number for Troubadour 1700 is 786-265-1649. The number for Liberty & Justice Radio is 786-265-1650. For L&J only, when prompted, press 1 to hear the Thom Edition, press 2 to hear the Alex Edition.
The ability to listen at TuneIn.com should be restored in the next day or two for all three streams.
Unfortunately, for some reason, this new server is not streaming song and program titles in Winamp. Different servers mean different software and different settings. It's typical. I'll try to see if the feature can be enabled. If not, I am also working at getting song title (and possibly artwork) streaming for Troubadour (at least) through its page at Tune In.
Liberty & Justice 1640/95.1 - http://50.58.47.66:7014
The new server is in Orlando, FL. The old one was in Portsmouth, NH.
The listen by phone service from Zeno Radio has been updated and is now functioning. The number for Troubadour 1700 is 786-265-1649. The number for Liberty & Justice Radio is 786-265-1650. For L&J only, when prompted, press 1 to hear the Thom Edition, press 2 to hear the Alex Edition.
The ability to listen at TuneIn.com should be restored in the next day or two for all three streams.
Unfortunately, for some reason, this new server is not streaming song and program titles in Winamp. Different servers mean different software and different settings. It's typical. I'll try to see if the feature can be enabled. If not, I am also working at getting song title (and possibly artwork) streaming for Troubadour (at least) through its page at Tune In.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Audio Streams have been down for weeks. We hope for restoration sometime between June 11th and 15th.
6/11/13 Due to some difficulties with
a now-former provider, the host of our audio streams has been busy
trying to regroup and save his business. As soon as he is able, we will
work to get the streams back on line with a new URL that is already in
place. Thanks for your patience.
Also, I am pleased to announce that the micro FM signals at 97.9 and 95.1 were restored to their original coverages a couple of weeks ago thanks to new transmitters. Tweaking of the antenna for 97.9 is a project that has been on my "to-do" list since the frequency change last fall. A further (very) slight improvement in coverage should occur once it is completed. If you would like to donate to our transmitter fund, you may do so here.
As for plans for the stations, I have decided for a number of reasons that the two editions of Liberty & Justice should once again be combined to a single service, with one AM and one FM frequency, billed as "The Mulpus Brook Talk Alternative." First and foremost is my increasing lack of time, combined with the demise of Oracle Broadcasting, leaving one less service to choose from when filling two schedules. The reworked station will offer the best of the best and emphasizes the issues of agreement among progressives, democratic socialists, non-violent anarchists, and populist libertarians, especially concerning economic justice, health freedom, and official transparency... and of course, it will be totally anti-corporate! The 87.5 frequency will likely be dropped. Just when the FM dial should be expanding downward from 88.1, more and more manufacturers are starting their FM dials at 87.9, especially with OEM equipment in cars. So fewer receivers are able to tune the frequency. The signal at 95.1, however, should be slightly enhanced because my plans call for greatly reducing the length of its transmission line. Now... to find the time to do all the work this recombining project involves!
By the way, 102.9 is also back on the air broadcasting local NOAA weather most of the time, but also available for special events at any time (such as the anti-Monsanto protests that occured on Memorial Day weekend).
Also, I am pleased to announce that the micro FM signals at 97.9 and 95.1 were restored to their original coverages a couple of weeks ago thanks to new transmitters. Tweaking of the antenna for 97.9 is a project that has been on my "to-do" list since the frequency change last fall. A further (very) slight improvement in coverage should occur once it is completed. If you would like to donate to our transmitter fund, you may do so here.
As for plans for the stations, I have decided for a number of reasons that the two editions of Liberty & Justice should once again be combined to a single service, with one AM and one FM frequency, billed as "The Mulpus Brook Talk Alternative." First and foremost is my increasing lack of time, combined with the demise of Oracle Broadcasting, leaving one less service to choose from when filling two schedules. The reworked station will offer the best of the best and emphasizes the issues of agreement among progressives, democratic socialists, non-violent anarchists, and populist libertarians, especially concerning economic justice, health freedom, and official transparency... and of course, it will be totally anti-corporate! The 87.5 frequency will likely be dropped. Just when the FM dial should be expanding downward from 88.1, more and more manufacturers are starting their FM dials at 87.9, especially with OEM equipment in cars. So fewer receivers are able to tune the frequency. The signal at 95.1, however, should be slightly enhanced because my plans call for greatly reducing the length of its transmission line. Now... to find the time to do all the work this recombining project involves!
By the way, 102.9 is also back on the air broadcasting local NOAA weather most of the time, but also available for special events at any time (such as the anti-Monsanto protests that occured on Memorial Day weekend).
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