FINALLY, A DREAM COME TRUE

Well, you have heard some talk about this for the last year and a half or so. AUDIO VISION is going digital. We got a grant from the John and Dorothy Leavy Foundation in Los Angeles for $13,000.00 for the conversion of our studios from analog to digital. The entire project is going to cost us close to $17,000.00.

We have the three computers right now, and we have ordered the Wireready software and hardware to make the computers ready for broadcast. We are expecting that delivery some time this week. After we receive that, we will be installing sound cards, two for each computer, plus other controller cards and software.

We are very excited about this upgrade, and a bit nervous too. What this system will do for us is automate our afternoon broadcast. We will not have to cue up programs every 55 minutes. The computer will automatically put programs on the air at the correct time. This will not change so much the morning live readers routine, other than we will be recording the newspaper readers on the computer so we can rebroadcast the morning newspapers each evening at 6:00 P.M. For the book and magazine readers, you will be recording directly to the computers. We have purchased special key boards that look like controls for a recorder: Play, record, stop, Etc. When your program is recorded, we will save it to disc with a name and copy it to a jazz drive disc. From there we will take the jazz drive disc and put it in the control room computer and load your program in the day and hour slot that it is supposed to be played, and the computer will play it at the proper time.

Terry Sharon, formerly of Davis and Graeber Insurance Co., has generously volunteered the services of her husband to help with this installation. Martin Sharon and Dirk Heartman were the two individuals who did the engineering when we moved to this new studio. They will be installing the computers to the control boards in the studios. This is schedule to be done Saturday, June 10. We thank them and appreciate their volunteering for this job. Terry, thank you. It's good to have friends in high places.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Do you know of any friends who might like to join the ranks of AUDIO VISION volunteer? We have some live morning newspaper reader slots available. We are looking for a volunteer for the following time slots: Sunday at 8:00 A.M., Wednesday at 10:00 A.M., Thursday at 8:00 A.M., Saturday at 8:00 A.M. As always, we could use some volunteers for recording magazines and books. Currently AUDIO VISION has 55 volunteer readers. Thanks to everyone for giving your time. If you know of someone, have them get in touch with us.

YOU'VE GOT MAIL!

More and more people are getting e-mail accounts. If you have an e-mail account and haven't shared your e-mail address with AUDIO VISION, please do so. So far, we have 17 volunteers with e-mail addresses. this helps us keep in communication with you. We will also send the news letter out to you via e-mail. So when you get a chance drop us a line with your e-mail address to [email protected]g. Thanks.

AUDIO VISION WEB SITE

We have a new URL for our website. The new address to get to our site is either or http://www.audiovisionradio.org www.audiovisionradio.org

One thing that we hope to be able to do in the future is offer a link on our website to listen to our broadcast. We'll keep you posted on any developments in that area. Join us on line.

WE APPRECIATE YOUR MAKING AV WHAT IT IS

Come meet and mingle with your volunteer colleagues. Volunteer staff party. Saturday, June 24. At Tom's house: 34848 Cedar Ave. Yucaipa. Starting at 5:30 P.M. Food and drink. Please come hungry. This is an opportunity for us to show our appreciation to you who volunteer. Also you will get an opportunity to meet with some of the other volunteers who work with you. We hope to see you there.