light snow fell a lot of yesterday and last night, winds up to 83 KPH, not as strong as predicted though.
Conditions here are not good but south of here has more to do with planes being on hold or cancelled; schools are closed in some places.
CBC Labrador Morning had a very good piece on the museum in Hopedale this morning.
Reporter Kate Kyle did a tour with Museum curator Dave Iglolorte. Dave is usually a quite bloke, but his verbal enthusiasm and knowledge of the large and eclectic collection in the three story building almost put one in there with them. Great stuff Dave and Kate.
Against my better judgment [again] I have posted some Anonymous comments, not all though.
I put these ones up because some of the words are not directed at me alone, and to show that we all have our imperfections.
I would also like to address
Windowless rooms...very depressing...we need daylight/sunlight....is there windows in the ceiling ??? or is the studio designed that way to get away from outside noise ??????
for the uninitiated.
The new studios are far from depressing, lots of light from two artificial light sources. The staff do not spend all day in there; the radio office area is very bright and airy with south facing windows.
As pointed out many times, the studios are designed to be sound proof. Most sound proof areas are designed to have the least amount of sound leaking material included. I know of some city based radio studios that have windows facing spectacular scenery; stations in Sydney Australia come to mind.
With very tight budget constraints OKS could not afford that type of glass window at this point in time.
As it is there will be some sort of noise leakage, with the right wind the building is under the flight path of twin otters landing and taking off.
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Most of the radio studios I am familiar with are usually located in the core of the structure. With a hallway and offices along the outer wall. Also most new studio mikes are uni-directional and noise canceling. Boom mikes are seldom used, The announcers wear headsets with the mike attached, so they can move about the studio, with no one the wiser. The new ones are wireless, operating in the 1,800 ghz range.
The mikes, booms, headphones in the ‘new studio’ are all older ones or hand me downs. Some of the headphones are ‘under repair as we speak, they are be used when ‘on air’.
When finances permit who knows, but even CBC goes with a set up like OKS has.
From a personal perspective; when money permits I would like to see a new transmitter for Nain. The 50’s era AM job is on its last legs and parts [crystals, tubes etc] are not available anymore.
That is archaic. Budgetary restraints I understand, but it costs more to maintain those old tube transmitters than a new 40w solid state one would cost.
The solid state transmitters also don't drift off frequency as tube units do.
What would a new 40w transmitter cost these days? $1,000-$1,500 would be my guess.
Maybe in Paradise you can get a 40w AM transmitter for a thousand. More like ten grand plus over this way.
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