University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 3, 1987 5 Booster stations, new home benefit audio-reader service By TIM HAMILTON Stait writer The timing couldn't be better for the Audio-Reader Network. Remodeling of the network's future headquarters, the former Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house at 1120 W. 11th St. began this semester. At the same time, KANU-FM 91.5, which broadcasts Audio-Reader's programs for the handicapped and visually impaired, began to expand its broadcast area with eight booster stations in Kansas and Oklahoma. The new headquarters will be named the Louis W. and Dolpha Baehr Audio-Reader Center, after the benefactors who financed half of the renovation, said Jim Martin, senior vice president of private support for Kansas University Endowment Association. Janet Campbell, Audio-Reader's operations manager, said the Baehr Center, scheduled for completion in September, would greatly improve the network's services. Audio-Reader now is housed in both Sudler House, off of West Campus Road, and in a mobile home between KJH-KFM 91 and the Triangle fraternity house. The Baehr Center will improve the quality of the service's recordings as well and double its recording capabilities. Campbell said. studios now, and the center will have between six and eight," she said. "Plus we'll have everyone in the same building." "We have only three recording Steve Kineaid, chief engineer at Audio-Reader, said the service now supports a wide range of devices. "Basically it's like trying to record in a tin can," he said. The new studios will contain sound-proof walls and floors to eliminate noise. "Also, the air ducts have been designed to cut down on air noise. Those things will make the biggest improvements." Kincaid said. "If someone buys a microwave and wants the instruction book recorded, we'll have space to do it," she said. The additional recording studios will allow the network to do more special recordings beyond its normal programming, which took top priority, Campbell said. Already, KANU booster stations are operating in Manhattan, Emporia and Junction City. Stations soon will be operating in Independence, Parsons, lola, Pittsburgh and Bartlesville, Oklah, Berman said. "With every translator station that KANU installs, our audience will be more engaged." Berman estimated that the booster stations would potentially increase KANU's audience by 350,000 people. He said the station would Campbell said the stations would provide the Audio-Reader service to new listeners as well as improve service for existing audiences in Emporia and Manhattan who now receive the service through paycable channels. The stations in Manhattan and Emporia provide service to those who previously couldn't afford cable. Kincaid said. "So far they're putting the stations up along 70 - 75 meters, have cable lines, and a fiber optic fitted." Now, these audiences need only a free Audio-Reader radio-receiver. Campbell said she hoped that groups like the Lyons Club might raise money to buy receivers for the visually impaired. Campbell said the network would advertise in cities near booster stations to inform people of the new service. She said the service would contact optometrists, the department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and libraries to find potential audiences. "We would like to get in with the libraries because they have visually impaired services," she said. "Most people don't use computers now use Talking Book services." Campbell said she was going to Manhattan next month to speak to a visually impaired group and visit the libraries. State AIDS task force appointed From staff and wire reports Lt. Gov. Jack Walker yesterday appointed 15 people to serve on a Kansas AIDS Task Force, including a member of the Kansas gay community but no representative of Right To Life, which had sought a seat. William Reals, dean of the Wichita branch of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, will head the task force, Walker said. Reals is a physician, pathologist, educator and administrator. The task force will work to coordinate the state's role in combatting the spread of AIDS. The panel will meet for the first time at 1 p.m. April 15 at the Statehouse to set ground rules and develop applications to grant grants, said Bruce Ney, deputy secretary for Gov. Mike Hayden. Walker said the task force would serve a proper role in responding to the various health, social, legal and educational questions posed by the disease. Walker, who also is acting secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, will be on the task force. The task force also will consider which avenues, including legislative action and education programs, the state should take to deal with the disease and what the governor's role should be. Ney said. The task force's report officially is due in time to present to the 1988 Legislature, but Walker said parts of the report dealing with AIDS education in Kansas schools could be presented earlier. "We will have some sort of base to work with now in case the Centers for Disease Control, for example, recommends action to take to combat the disease," Ney said. "The task force will be able to determine if proposed action would be good or bad for the state." Task force members include a member of the state Board of Education, the president of the Kansas-National Education Association, president of the Kansas Medical Society, state legislators, representatives from the health services and a half dozen representatives of the public. 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