I'm at WBAS in West Yarmouth

Just under four hours from now, WBUR AM 1240 in West Yarmouth, MA will become WBAS, with a Brazilian format. I have spent an immense amount of time getting this to work. The studio in Centervile is still not ready -- no heat, for one thing -- so the programming is going to come from my client's other station, WSRO in Framingham. There is a local automation system and a switcher capable of accommodating up to eight different audio sources; a lot of the programming is eventually going to come from people with home studios.

My biggest problem right now is that there is no way to monitor the station from off Cape, as the signal doesn't reach the Boston area. If we spent the money we could get something like the Comrex BRIClink, which can pass audio in two directions, allowing the folks in Framingham to hear the station. But the BRIClink is not cheap, and my client doesn't want to spend the money.

I have something with me called a Barix Instreamer, and I could use it to encode an Internet stream, but I need to install it in Centerville tomorrow.

Hmm. I wonder if there's something I can do with this automation computer...

Who?

Just now, as I was taking some stuff out to my car, I heard a voice say "who? who?".

I heard it last night, too, as I was packing up to head home. There seems to be more than one of these creatures, as the sound comes from more than one direction.

Remote transmitter sites like this one are frequented by all sorts of wildlife. This site is on Cape Cod, very near the ocean, in West Yarmouth. I wouldn't want to be here when the next hurricane blows through.

Who?

I solved my monitoring problem; because I'm using an Audioscience sound card with the asi-hpi driver, the sound card on the computer motherboard wasn't doing anything, so I'm feeding it with a sample of the audio going to the transmitter. I am using iceS and icecast to stream the audio back to a machine in Framingham that is recording it in one-hour chunks.

God, I love Linux.

Сквозь грозы сияло нам солнце свободы
И Линус великий нам путь озарил;
Нас вырастил Сталлман на верность народу,
На труд и на подвиги нас вдохновил.