CAUTION: DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ENDS...MERGE LEFT! (Oct 29, 2005)

The year 2006 will be the last time Daylight Saving Time begins and ends from the first Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October as it has been since the day the Fox Network began airing Married...With Children on April 5, 1987. In 2007, Daylight Saving will begin on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November, to the dismay of many Halloween party-goers who schedule Saturday night Halloween parties to coincide with the time we set the clocks back one hour through early Sunday morning. Now, they'll have to do with parties lasting one-hour shorter as a result, which very much sucks.

The end of Daylight Saving Time before Halloween night means that the magic of the holiday starts earlier at 5pm when the sun sets in San Diego. But with the end of DST going past the end of Halloween, we have to wait an hour later to celebrate the evening as the sun would end at 6pm.

WE WANT NIGHT SAVING TIME!

People are always complaining that we start DST too early because the kids would be in the dark when going to school. How about starting school two hours later. Also, during the Winter solstice, the kids are already in the dark as the sun rises as late as can be on December 21, so why not move the clocks back another hour in early December so that there will be sun before 6am, but the sun would set before 4pm.

To make up for that, there should be a double daylight time from the end of June through the day before Labor Day in September so the sun rises around 7am and sets by 9pm.

So much for playing with time.

The Wires (Oct 29, 2005)

FMQB: The FCC Considers Commercial Low-Power AM Service

The Wires (Oct 28, 2005)

Kurt Hanson: Very important radio news story regarding the future of portable wireless Internet radio. In a report, Sprint plans to deploy the WiMax network on its nationwide network. From PCS Intel: "Sprint intends to deploy a national, non-fixed WiMax network with as much, if not more coverage than the existing CDMA network. WiMax will effectively Sprint Nextelact as a replacement to CDMA data, providing (fiber optic service) speeds via massive towers that resemble TV towers in major cities. This will enable Sprint to not only be a national ISP, but to remove common conceptions of a fixed ISP. "The WiMax modem technology Sprint is attempting to deploy will ensure that a broad range of WiMax devices will share an account... for example, WiMax deployments could fit in a PDA that would share bandwidth allocations with home internet that would share bandwidth allocations with your HDTV. Sprint intends to compete directly with Cable, Satellite, ISPs, and traditional Wireless. By bundling all telecommunication services ever envisioned, Sprint will tackle everyone by offering everything. "Sprint has multiple hurdles it must cross in order to obtain this vision. First, Sprint must gain a WiMax WiMaxstandard. Sprint is doing this by attempting to force WiMax standards through as an open modem technology: one WiMax device is compatible with another, and is mobile from the start. If this fails, Sprint will most likely divert to the nearest derivative of WiMax, currently WiBro... "But, Sprint was late to the WiMax game... Sprint lacks the licenses to deploy a national WiMax network on the critical 700 MHz band. In comes the FCC. As a part of the transaction of iDEN to the federal government, Sprint will gain a blank check to rebuild the 700 and 800 MHz bands in their image, taking licenses as needed fromFCC whoever has them regardless of how fairly they gained them at FCC auction in the past. "Sprint will form a network coalition to utilize dark fiber across the country to connect the city-wide WiMax towers whenever possible, feeding into Sprintlink backbones in order to ensure that the entire network is able to deliver above-DSL speeds to all customers at all times. Clearly, the goal is to make all metropolitan areas at least initially wired via fiber, and eventually, to create a national fiber optics 'spine' that will connect every citizen wirelessly to a fiber optics internet directly." Read the full story at PCS Intel.

KUSI Evening News on KCBQ (Oct 28, 2005)

San Diego Oktoberfest (Oct 28, 2005)

Three days of Oktoberfest celebrations. Enjoy 40 bands on 5 stages, do the chicken dance, sample 25 handcrafted beers, party at the Mardi Gras benifit, dress up to win cash and prizes or watch the game in the sports bar. There's also fun for all ages with carnival rides, karaoke and the scream zone.

Friday, October 28th (5pm - Midnight)
Saturday, Octber 29th (Noon - Midnight)
Sunday, October30th (Noon - 8pm)

Join FM 94/9 at the San Diego Oktoberfest on Saturday, October 29th from 4pm - 9pm.

Location: Del Mar Fairgrounds

Start Time: 5pm