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<p>I was hoping someone would mention Skype. We have three kits for
live interviewing as bi-lateral operation.</p>
<p>They are affectionately known as THB1,2 and 3. THB stands for
'Talking Hand-Bag'.</p>
<p>THB1 is just a simple mobile 'phone with 12volt Yuasa battery
powering a car kit in a bag with sockets for mic and headphones.
Quality just tolerable but it was a start and simple to use. One
of our technophobe volunteers likes it.<br>
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<p>THB2 is a HP Netbook with 3G dongle in a Maplin flight case and
sockets for mic and headphones. It is used with Skype only for
interviewing.</p>
<p>THB3 is a Windows phone clamped on a board with notepad and a 3rd
party adapter to feed headphones and take a mic. It can be used on
Skype or as a mobile accepting a quality reduction if internet
connection not good.</p>
<p>THB2 is also pressed into service for unilateral use on full
remote OB operation using Windows Media Encoder streaming directly
over the internet to studio where a PC runs WinMedia Player. We
have done 4 hour OB's with no glitches being observed on a CD
quality stereo link. The down side of using this 'free' software
is a 7-8second delay but that's easily covered up.</p>
<p>Mike Davison, Tempo FM.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/10/2016 16:16, Two Lochs Radio
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<p>We've done numerous on the fly OBs - generally just using a
laptop with ICEcast or similar over public internet, with
complete success - all it needs is a reasonable broadband
connection (we have no 3G let alone 4G within 50 miles!). But
that's strictly for one-way work, with the whole show originated
at the far end. <br>
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<p>For really occasional two-way work not needing music from the
far end we use Skype - as long as a decent microphone and
reasonably powerful PC is used, the quality of Skype nowadays is
remarkably good. Of course for really on the fly work you can
use a smartphone running Skype for the remote end (and there are
some quite high quality proprietary solutions for smartphones).<br>
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<p>For high-quality low-latency interviews and two-way shows we
used to use ISDN, but once a regularly weekly two-way show
finished we couldn't justify the couple of hundred pounds a
quarter for the line rental just for occasional use.<br>
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<p>Alex<br>
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<p>(PS if anybody would like to buy two AudioTX ISDN licences we
could talk!).<br>
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<p>On 02 October 2016 at 12:17 Callum McLean
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mail@callum-mclean.co.uk"><mail@callum-mclean.co.uk></a> wrote:<br>
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<br>
I was thinking about the Barix kit, but I didn't get the
impression<br>
that it was going to be robust enough... <br>
<br>
Good to know that other people have used the PS-kit
successfully - and<br>
cheers for the heads-up about potentially high latency in the
MP3<br>
format! Was hoping not to go down the MP3 route in any case,
but still<br>
good to know...<br>
<br>
Good shout about using SIP to negotiate the connection - will
look into<br>
it!<br>
<br>
Has anyone used this sort of kit in a flyaway environment -
i.e. not in<br>
installations? Typically, this is the sort of thing where most
people<br>
might use a) an ISDN line; b) a flyaway sat connection; c) a
bonded 4G<br>
link. We *were* going to go down the multiple-carrier bonded
4G route,<br>
until the cost just became prohibitive for what we want to
achieve.<br>
<br>
Also, to answer Iain's question, we're only using this over
the public<br>
internet - the plan is to require the venue hosting the OB to
provide<br>
us with a solid, wired internet connection - protected within
their own<br>
networking infrastructure, where possible, and then do
everything we<br>
can to keep latency and bandwidth down whilst retaining audio
quality.<br>
The only downside with the Sonifex kit is that they don't
support<br>
encoding in Opus :(<br>
<br>
Cal McLean<br>
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Station Technician // Halton Community Radio 92.3 FM<br>
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