Hi all.

On air date for 1ZZ in the Bay of Islands is just 12 weeks away!

I have almost everything I need but am still lacking a mixer panel (do
I need this if I am runing off a computer?) and a transmitting
antenna. Suppliers of these items, anyone?

Where would I get a half-wave dipole for 107.7? Is this something I
should be able to make with a length of No 8 fencing wire?

STL. This is a mystery to me. How does it work / what does it cost /
how far can it reach / does it have to be line of sight?

What sustaining programs do we know about? I'm particularly thinking
of overnights. In UK at The Howl FM I used WRN off the Astra
satellites, but where I am in NZ (Bay of Islands) this would need
something like a 3 metre satellite dish and a low look angle to pick
up Asiasat 2, both of which I could do where I live but not where I
aim to broadcast from. Is anyone using feeds from other international
broadcasters, like VOA, NPR, BBC, DW etc? How are you receiving them,
bearing in mind that we still have third world internet up here.

Is there any NZ news feed we could take without having to pay for it?
I guess we could get our computer vocaloid to read the front page of
the online Herald... which might provoke a nasty letter from Messrs
Sue Grabbitt & Runne

What are people using to play CDs? And where are they buying it?

I'd like to do live OBs (remotes / nemos / location broadcasts -
what's the terminology here?) around town. Anyone else doing this? How
are people feeding the signal back to base?

How do I get internet astreaming access? Seems to me this would be
very costly - unless someone knows different.

That's enough for starters.

Philip

---Primetime Radio 1ZZ - 107.7, on the air on January 28th.---