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Monday, November 4, 2002
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 Monday, November 4, 2002
started 11/4/2002; 1:59:08 AM - last post 11/4/2002; 9:44:11 PM
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Doc Searls - Monday, November 4, 2002 
11/4/2002; 5:59:08 AM (reads: 4296, responses: 4)
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Early erection results 
| | [Later...] And now it's been Slashdotted. Whoa. Hey, and so has Vivato (one frequent blog link contributor works there). |
That's one out of every 57
Nice works
| | One of the best political sites on the Web is e.thepeople.org, which has done an outstanding job of taking the conversation imperative from Cluetrain and making it work in the political marketplace. |
And there's still more to come
Repreciating radio
| | When you live in the hills and mountains of California, you can move a few hundred feet and get a whole different set of FM stations. We moved a mile (by air) from a Montecito Valley to a Santa Barbara hillside, and the difference is radical. |
| | FM sounds best when the transmitter is within sight of the receiver. If you live within sight of Mt. Wilson in Los Angeles, for example, everything that comes from up there is loud and clear. This is true for pretty much the whole LA basin, the San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley and Northern Orange County. Stand on Mt. Wilson (something I highly recommend on a clear day), and everything you see is served well by the farm of antennas radiating signals from up there. |
| | Other regions aren't so lucky. Seattle and San Francisco don't have the equivalent of Mt. Wilson. Without an ideal transmitter site, every station has terrain shadows where its signal sucks. |
| | Santa Barbara is like that, too. |
| | Where we used to live in Montecito, we could see nine Santa Barbara FM transmitters on Gibraltar Peak, which loomed high above the house, about two miles away. Those all came in fine. Everything else was marginal at best. |
| | Now we live at exactly the same elevation (500 feet), but with a spectacular view of downtown Santa Barbara, plus most of the Channel Islands. But not an FM station in sight. |
| | There is a clear view across the ocean to San Diego, however. Even though the San Diego stations' transmitters are below the horizon (and about 150 miles away by air), they come in quite well. |
| | All the stations on Gibraltar Peak are behind our hill, and sound terrible. We're also in shadow from Broadcast Peak, the other local transmitter site. (Here's a nice rundown of all the AMs and FMs in town.) |
| | One upside, however, is discovering KPBS/89.5, the NPR affiliate in San Diego. "A Way With Words" has become a must-hear for me on weekends while I'm putting around my office. |
| | Soon as I leave the house, of course, I lose KPBS, along with most of the other San Diego stations. Such is the nature of radio life in the hills here. |
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Vincent Outlaw - Re: Monday, November 4, 2002 (San Diego Radio)
11/4/2002; 1:06:15 PM (reads: 639, responses: 3)
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In San Diego, KPBS is definitely a must have for news and special programs like A Way With Words. A couple of their reporters (Scott Horsly and Nancy Greenlees) now have moved up to NPR.
Another station to try here in town would be KSDS 88.3 FM, Jazz 88. A DJ-programmed station across the full spectrum of Jazz music, including bop, hard bop, blues (all styles), vocals, big band, world jazz, latin (no pop instrumental stuff pushed as Soft Jazz). And a full three hours of the newest stuff on the scene can be heard Thursday nights from 6 to 9 pm PT on The New Jazz Thing (shameless DJ plug).
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Doc Searls - Re: Monday, November 4, 2002 (San Diego Radio)
11/4/2002; 1:18:57 PM (reads: 603, responses: 2)
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Here in my office I get KSDS when I angle the radio's whip antenna so it's broadside to San Diego; and I get KCLU when I angle it so it's broadside to Thousand Oaks. Both stations are mostly jazz, and both are on the same channel.
Both outstanding stations, too.
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Vincent Outlaw - Re: Monday, November 4, 2002 (San Diego Radio)
11/4/2002; 5:56:38 PM (reads: 683, responses: 0)
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Fantastic. I also wanted to make sure you knew that you are much appreciated both by myself and other creative folks at the station (scroll Miff's page to see the link company you are in). Keep angling toward SD!
Much Love...VO
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adamsj - A good definition of hell
11/5/2002; 1:44:11 AM (reads: 699, responses: 0)
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Living in the same city as KCRW and not being able to pick it up on the radio. That's really sad.
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