Daily Nebraskan
Pago 13
April 4, 1C34
may
go to stereo
Each SDrinc for the past two years
KLMS has brouht back a flash from the
past. Last spring it was Judy Converse,
who had tried out the big city of Min
neapolis for awhile and decided she
wanted to come back to Lincoln. This
JoAnne
Young
year it's meteorologist Tom Dunklee,
who left last fall to do consulting for a
company in Oregon, but returned to
Lincoln in January.
"Lincoln's Meteorologist," as he is
billed by the station, returned to town
to continue work on his doctorate in
meteorology at UNL and to open his
own weather consulting firm. Dunklee
said he will be preparing forecasts and
acting as a consultant for radio sta
tions across Nebraska, Kansas and
South Dakota, as well as for agricultu
ral businesses, nurseries, construction
companies and other private industry.
As a consultant to KLMS, Dunklee
goes to the station each morning to
prepare his forecast for the day and do
some live weather reports between 6
a.m. and 8 a.m. The rest of the day the
reports are taped or called in, unless
there is severe weather in the area. In
that case, Dunklee b at the station for
weather reports.
Dunklee said KLMS has sophisticat
ed weather equipment that includes
color radar, which is helpful in short
range forecasting, and National Weath
er Service maps, satellite pictures and
instruments for measuring current con
ditions in Lincoln.
As a special one-time-only consul
tant to the Daily Nebraskan, Dunklee
said we can expect warmer tempera
tures in July. (On top of being a meteo
rologist, he's a comedian.) Expect wet
and cool for the rest of the semester.
Is Lincoln on the verge of having a
stereo AM station? Lee Thomas of
KLMS seems to be casting a particu
larly alert gaze at the venture.
The station recently increased its
power from 1,000 to 5,000 watts and
spent about $500,000 on a new trans
mitter site, according to Thomas. They
did it with an eye toward going stereo,
with the capability of adding some
equipment to complete the system if
they decide to do it, he said.
Thomas said KLMS is waiting to see
which of four AM stereo systems will
become the preferred system for sta
tions to use. Thomas has a Sony Walk-
Tclcvisicn
Ready When You Are, Mr. DeMille, is
a British documentary on pioneer film
maker Cecil B. DeMille and his some
times maniacal method of making
movies. The show airs at 9 p.m. on
Channel 12.
Hadio
Garcia Navarro leads this week's
Chicago Symphony (8 p.m., KUCV, 90.9
FM) which highlights a performance of
Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 5 in E
Minor." Two additional works also will
be featured: the tone poem "Don Juan"
by Richard Strauss and Roy Harris'
Symphony No. 3."
At the Sheldon
A FilmVideo Showcase featuring
the works of animator Robert Breer
will be presented for the next three
days at the Film Theatre. Today's line
up features 14 of. Breer's short films.
Shows are at 1, 7 and 9 p.m. Admission
is $3. Breer will be in town to discuss
his films Thursday and Friday.
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man with AM stereo which picks up all
four systems by use of a switch. Buick
is putting some stereo am receivers m
their cars that pick up one system
the Delco system. Many stations are
waiting on stereo conversion to see
which of the systems emerges as the
clear favorite.
In the meantime, the audience per
ception of AM stereo could stand a
little work. According to Thomas, re
search KLMS has done shows the pub
lic has a "fuzzy notion" that AM stereo
amounts to "two little transistor
radios side-by-side " and that's how it
Spinal Tap...
would sound. But Thomas says that's
just not so. On his receiver, he said, AM
sounds as good as FM.
The receivers shouldn't be any more
expensive than stereo as they are now,
he said. The chip that converts the
receiver to stereo costs about $1.25.
Currently, KFAB in Omaha is stereo,
and Lincolnites can pick up WLS in
Chicago at night, which also broad
casts in stereo. For now, KLMS has the
money budgeted to convert to stereo,
Thomas said, and could start the con
'version on a moment's notice, when,
and if, that moment is right.
Continued from Page 12
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bole that its satire is mis
sed; most of the time it is
right on target.
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