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</head><body><p>Now that's one thing that never made it on to our show featuring music based on "50 things you might find in a lady's handbag"... no-one ever suggested a 12V lead acid battery!<br></p><p>Alex<br></p><blockquote type="cite">On 02 October 2016 at 20:24 Mike Davison <mike@g1sbn.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:<br><br><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></p><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></p><br><div class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-cite-prefix">On 02/10/2016 16:16, Two Lochs Radio wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><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></p><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></p><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></p><p>Alex<br></p><p>(PS if anybody would like to buy two AudioTX ISDN licences we could talk!).<br></p><blockquote type="cite"><p>On 02 October 2016 at 12:17 Callum McLean <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mail@callum-mclean.co.uk"><mail@callum-mclean.co.uk></a> wrote:<br> <br> <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> <br> --<br> Station Technician // Halton Community Radio 92.3 FM<br> <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mail@callum-mclean.co.uk">mail@callum-mclean.co.uk</a><br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> <br> Reply - <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br> <br> The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association - <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.commedia.org.uk">http://www.commedia.org.uk</a><br> Twitter: <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://twitter.com/community_media">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br> <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation">http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br> Canstream Internet Radio & Video: <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br> _______________________________________________<br> <br> Mailing list guidelines: <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/">http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/</a><br> _______________________________________________<br> <br> To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:<br> <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l">http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</a><br></p></blockquote><p>> <a class="ox-5b84e97aa3-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l">http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</a><br></p><br> <br><pre>_______________________________________________
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