The bidding ends September 12 at 5 PM, but if
you happen to read this beforehand, you have some extra bucks sitting around,
and you always wanted to have an internet show broadcast from your house, you’re
in luck.
It’s the Tom Leykis Show “Done From Your House”
promotion.
Here’s how it works: Bid on eBay (item
#231327278940). The winning bid, according to the item description, will “have
the pleasure of hosting the internet's most listened to call-in show for one
full episode at his home. In his backyard. At his kitchen table. At poolside. In
his apartment.”
Leykis says that it is for a private residence
only, hosted by the winner and his friends. No storefronts, no parks, no beaches
... nothing that the general public can attend. The winner agrees to have a fast
internet connection (for live streaming,” and the winner cannot transfer the
show to another person.
Importantly, according to the item description
page, “If you're not within 500 miles of our Burbank, CA studio and the cost of
getting to your place and back plus two rooms for one night in a local hotel
exceeds the amount of your bid, you are responsible for the
difference.”
Leykis is quite candid about the auction and the
live broadcast. History in the making and “getting us closer to making a
profit!” he says.
Starting bid was $9.99 at 5 PM Sunday; just four
hours later, it was already up to $4050. That would cover a really nice hotel, I
think ... I’ll have the winning bid and Leykis’ reaction next week.
Saving AM
While numerous people and broadcast groups give
lip-service to improving the ability of AM broadcasters to compete, a
“microbroadcaster” named Jeffrey Gill, who broadcasts to his local community of
Shirley, Massachusetts via unlicensed but legal “Part 15” transmitters, thinks
he has a real solution.
Basically, force radio manufacturers to make
decent AM radio sections in their radio designs, and work to cut AM interference
from products as wide ranging as traffic signals to cable boxes. Read his
petition at Change.Org
via this link: http://tinyurl.com/ky4ot5n
HD Problem
I enjoy your column in the Press-Telegram and
learn from it. I recently bought a new car and have HD radio for the first time.
I am disappointed that the HD fades in and out, causing an echo effect. This is
especially noticeable on KPCC (89.3 FM), my favorite NPR station. Is it my radio
or the station? Is there any solution? Thanks. -- Charlotte Egan, Long
Beach
I am surprised that you are having an echo
problem because I generally find that KPCC does a really nice job blending the
analog and the digital HD signals. If the signals are not perfectly in time with
each other, you can get an echo as the radio switches form analog to HD and
back. On my truck radio, I didn’t notice any echo with KPCC, but I have on other
stations.
But I do think I know what is causing the fade
... you are probably experiencing the same problem that I am in San Pedro …
weather. Namely, it’s too clear.
What is happening is that the atmospheric
conditions are allowing the San Diego station at 89.5 (KNPR I believe) just
destroy the signal from KPCC. It happens occasionally, (more often during
Summer) and often affects other stations such as KROQ as well (106.5 from San
Diego trounces 106.7 on clear days). Living near the ocean, the signals just
travel straight to us over the ocean with little interference and little to stop
the signal. If you were inland more, you might not notice at all (plus you’d be
closer to KPCC’s transmitter).
So to answer your question, it probably isn’t
the radio or the antenna (though with the short antennas on many cars from the
factory it can certainly be an issue). What you will probably find is that as
Winter sets in and/or weather patterns change between us and San Diego, your
reception will improve.
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