WSUiR/Naked-City/Front-Porch-Radio/Winfield update

[John Harrison]

A bunch of us WSUiR/CRATEL people talked about the WSUiR/Naked City/Winfield/Front-Porch-Radio broadcast plan during Build Day.  As a refresher for the rest of you, Mande Braden of Naked City approached us asking if we wanted to work with them to broadcast at the Walnut Valley Festival. They have James Gates to help them. I suggested we include Front Porch Radio in this discussion, as Front Porch has been broadcasting Winfield high quality to a large and appreciative audience for several years now.

Back to the meeting today, here's what we came up with:

• At the meeting were John, Rachel, Tommy, Tom, Anthony, Sam, Brian, Lauren
  
• We will focus on getting content the week of the festival --- starting the 15th of Sept. The bulk of the festival is the 18-20 of Sept.
• loosely here is the availability of the people at the meeting today:
• Before Monday (cover land rush): John, Brian, Rachel
• Monday: John?
• Tuesday: Rachel? John? Brian?
• Wednesday: Rachel (eve only)? John? Brian?
• Thursday: John
• Friday: Brian, Sam, Rachel, John
• Sat: Brian, Sam, Rachel
• Loosely we might plan a schedule something like this, especially toward the end of the week:
• 10pm - 5am: WSUiR people collect interviews, jams, etc. for broadcast later
• 5am - noon: sleep. If we decide not to edit onsite, audio will be sent to Wichita via Internet during that time.
• noon - 5pm: edit previously recorded material either onsite or in Wichita. Also even if material is edited onsite, we may still send to Wichita before live broadcast to ensure high quality audio transmission.
  
• 5-7pm: Best of Front Porch Radio --- edited material from Front Porch Radio's broadcasts of the previous 24 hours
  
• 7-9pm: Best of stuff collected from the 10pm - 5am window
• 9-10pm: James Gates show
• 10-11pm: broadcast of live jam.
• James Gates would like to stick in 5 minutes at the top of each hour, or something like this. It will be interviews, comments on the feel of the place, etc. Whatever he wants to add can only help.
  
• Logistically, we are concerned about:
• how to make good field recordings with laptops, field recorders, mikes, etc.
• how to transmit Internet from Winfield. The best option seems to be an air card, but nobody at the meeting had one or knew anybody who could loan us one. Perhaps there is a place in downtown Winfield where can bring laptops for transmission to Wichita for later broadcast.
  
• Rachel is very involved with Carp Camp. There she works with Henry, who is a techno-geek (said with love), and may be able to help us with the technical and logistics. He may also have some ideas for broadcast etc. Rachel will talk to Henry on Monday.
  
• Tommy talked about the Ham Radio festival that happens at the Derby Radio Shack 9am-12pm every Sat. (talk about techno-geeks):
  
• We decided to take a "field trip" to this festival tomorrow (Sat) to see if any of them might have an air card or some other creative ideas/tools/etc. to help us broadcast. Perhaps some of them might even want to be involved. Apparently if we mention their "call letters" it's really cool for them?
  
• We'd like to start collecting content immediately, including even recording and broadcasting the process of being able to broadcast at Winfield. For that reason, we may record part of the Ham Radio Festival on Sat.

Other stuff unrelated to Winfield but seems fun:

• Rachel talked about doing a Ghost show. We talked about making ghost sensors (EMF?) which connected the presence of ghosts to audio.

-John

[Steve Wilson]

If you're sending audio via the Internet for off-site editing, I might
as well lend a hand from Iowa, if that would be of any help. With
advance notice, I could set aside the time and plow through tons of
material.

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Steve

[John Harrison]

that's a huge help. Thanks, Steve!

-John

[Rachel Maxey]

Hey Everyone!

I will be leading a group of people from my house to Newton on Sunday night to do some ghost hunting.  We'll be using video cameras, field recorders, disposable cameras (I'd recommend you buy one if you come.  They're like $5.  It's recommended that you get 800 speed,) and laptops with webcams as well. (One webcam we converted to an infrared camera tonight, so it will see better at night and detect heat.)

On Sunday we'll be going to my friend's property outside of Newton which is known to be haunted due to a death in a mobile home on the property of a young man and a mass grave of murdered people on the property as well.  Next we'll head to an abandoned house also outside Newton where six murders took place. If you want to hear the whole stories to these hauntings, give me a call and come help us find the ghosts!  Give me a call or text.

I hope you can make it!

Rachel Maxey
316-250-5020

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