Category Archives: Volunteer

Understanding Website Aliases

It is very common for a website to have more than one name. Deciding what to do can be tricky, and there may be no “correct” answer Let’s say a station has 2 names a.com and b.com. When you go … Continue reading →

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Helping Out

You may have noticed a lot of change here in the past month, including the requirement that you be a registered user to view the website. I think the message is clear that if I don’t get a lot of … Continue reading →

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Reworking website navigation

Streaming Radio Guide’s roots go back to about 1999 when I started creating FindAnISP.com – much of the “guts” of the web site is still based on that code. When I decided in 2004 to split the gathering of streaming … Continue reading →

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Password reset

Part of what I’ve been doing recently is to substantially strengthen the password protection on user accounts. Because I do not store your original password and cannot reverse engineer it, I had to reset all user passwords. What this means … Continue reading →

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Do you have native IPv6 connectivity?

Since you are either brave or foolish enough to have found the new server, I’m in need of someone who understands IPv6 and has native IPv6 connectivity. If you don’t understand what that means without asking Google, I’m not looking … Continue reading →

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Random thoughts

I’m pondering if there is a way to create a voting system as motivation to get people to pull the wagon instead of me. You may be familiar with social sites that work based on group consensus of what is … Continue reading →

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August month to date

Here is who has been doing Web Site Verification so far this month: +——–+—————-+ | vcount | username | +——–+—————-+ | 732 | editor | | 402 | CharlotteNC | | 8 | janderson021 | | 7 | WesternMA | … Continue reading →

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Market classification

This is probably only of interest to 2 or three people, and I’m one of the them because I have to be 🙂 There are important legal distinctions at the FCC regarding which radio stations belong to which “Market”. As … Continue reading →

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Football season approaches

High School and college football seasons are about to gear up, and the NFL is right around the corner. For those people who think Soccer is the American sport, there is a pretty definite pattern to when football games are … Continue reading →

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How to “Safely” verify station web sites

Hello volunteers, I’ve been busy plugging the holes where people think we still test streams or update program schedules for WJAS-AM 🙂 These testing tools were originally meant for my use and as such are not intuitive – I’ve been … Continue reading →

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