ANTENNAS:

I strongly recommend Veronica. It's a UK-based company (see
veronica.co.uk).

I imported a tuned dipole antenna from them (this one:
http://www.veronica.co.uk/tda.htm) and as you can see on that page it
only costs about $110 NZ (delivered from the UK to your door!).

I actually recommend a stacked dipole if you have the room (see
http://www.veronica.co.uk/2tda.htm) which sets you back only $240 NZ.


NEWS FEED:

I looked as well for a free or a cheap one. Couldn't find anything -
but if you do, let us all know here!

You may be interested to know that IRN offered me their feed at
$400/month. Guess that's a fair price as it's 6am-midnight, on the
hour, every hour, and I think every 30 mins (or 15 mins) during breakfast.


STREAMING:

Not only is the streaming expensive, but so are the licences. The
licence (ie: to cover copyright) are separate from and a lot more
expensive than the FM broadcast ones.


Edwin.
Mix FM


PS: You can blame Telecom NZ for our 3rd world Internet :-)



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> Hi all.
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> On air date for 1ZZ in the Bay of Islands is just 12 weeks away!
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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
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> What are people using to play CDs? And where are they buying it?
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> 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?
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> How do I get internet astreaming access? Seems to me this would be
> very costly - unless someone knows different.
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> That's enough for starters.
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> Philip
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