Our “dual language” project is moving right along. It began with rebuilding an almost new computer to feed audio to the AM transmitter. (Right now we have one computer that feeds both transmitters.) The broadcast software we use now has been discontinued, so we had to get a new version. Sadly, the new version does not play well with the old one so the biggest expense was buying enough copies for all the other computers. Also, we have been running Windows 2000 Pro since 2001 on the studio computers and the new software requires WindowsXP. The AM computer is running in test mode now. We recently got the hard drives and audio cards we needed, so this weekend I can replace the used data drives we had temporarily placed in the AM computer and it will be ready to go. Now we need to put all the new software and WindowsXP on our current on-air computer, which will become the FM computer and do the same to the production computers.
I just finished rebuilding a slightly used computer for one of the production studios and Peter swapped it out with the old one the other day. I’m now rebuilding that computer to replace the second production computer. The rebuilding involves replacing the main drive and the data drive, installing the operating system, the broadcast software, the audio editing software, and various other utilities and getting it set up on the network and getting the files all synchronizing from one machine to the other automatically as well as configuring all the programs so they behave like the old ones. It’s pretty time consuming.
July 18 is the 20th anniversary of Radio HRGS‘ first test broadcast. In honor of that occasion, our target is to go on line with all day English and all day Spanish on Monday, July 19. It’s going to be close, but I think we can make it.
OK, on to the fun stuff. Well, mostly fun. About a week ago I posted a video that was the first part of our trip to La Ceiba. Here is the conclusion. Now you can see La Ceiba without getting seasick or sunburned. Enjoy. 
And don’t forget, if you want to see it in its original size, right click it and you can see it on the hosting site, Vimeo.
Trip to La Ceiba – Pt. 2 from Jerry Petersen on Vimeo.
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