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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At Eden FM, we use a laptop, Yamaha 03 mini-mixer,
USB mic and headphones. PlayIt Live software with mucis, Butt as an encoder. Fed
either to wi-fi, or to a 3G dongle. We stream back to the studio, so there is a
delay, meaning this is more of a one-way broadcast, rather than two way
interview.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Recent fun story on that, was last month when the
Tour of Briotain cycle race came through the town. We did a live OB with the
above kit. BBC Radio Cumbria were there and cvame to see whatw e were doing,
assuming it was recording or inserts. Told them we were 100% live for two hours.
They asked where the studio kit was! They had a van with a satellite dish, doing
just inserts as they couldn;t do a full live show from it.<BR><BR>We ove the
simple thinmgs in life :)</DIV>
<DIV><BR>That said, we will look more closely at Skype for live
stuff.<BR><BR>Also, for interviews, we have used an iPhone with a Voice
Recorder app, plus a decent mic plugged in. Audio with this app can be
saved, emailed, or saved to Dropbox. This means interviews can be used almost
immediately from the studio email/Dropbox.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Beats the old Uher I used to carry!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>-Nigel-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Eden FM, Penrith</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=tlr@gairloch.co.uk href="mailto:tlr@gairloch.co.uk">Two Lochs
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 03, 2016 12:38
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cma-l] Remote Contribution
Infrastructure</DIV>
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<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 <<A
href="mailto:mike@g1sbn.freeserve.co.uk">mike@g1sbn.freeserve.co.uk</A>>
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>
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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></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>
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<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
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