Low cost remote stereo feed to FM station

[Roger Kolakowski]

Bud mused...

>>Heck, I'd love to know where they found a cell phone
with that kind of talk time!<<

Most of the cell services have "free nights and weekends" or unlimited 
in-calling or "friends and family" etc, plug your cell into a charger and a 
headset and you can go to it simply.

If you want to run 2 mics andexchange feedback, there is a product called a 
"flipjack" that gives you all the interface you need to look like a 
"professional broadcaster." The only audio improvement would be the use of 
studio quality mics though  ;-(

Roger
WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cohasset / Hippisley" <cohasset@frontiernet.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Low cost remote stereo feed to FM station


> "Thank you!" to everyone who responded -- both on the reflector and 
> off-line -- to my request for suggestions on ways to implement a low-cost 
> stereo feed from my church to a nearby radio station.  This is not my "day 
> job", so I'm slow in getting back to any of you individually, but I *will* 
> be following up with specific "how to" questions regarding some of the 
> techniques proposed.
>
> Armed with some buzz-words and ideas from the responses I received here, I 
> called the station today and spoke with the (self-described non-technical) 
> station owner.  The situation there is a bit more primitive that I had 
> anticipated (...errr, maybe the correct word is "hoped").  For instance, 
> the only other "live" remotes they do are local high school games; he 
> tells me the audio feeds for these originate with a cell phone!  (Heck, 
> I'd love to know where they found a cell phone with that kind of talk 
> time!)  Further, their engineer is a contract person who usually only 
> shows up at the station in response to an emergency, so scheduling a 
> sit-down meeting with him will be next to impossible.  Etc., etc.
>
> However, the owner is more than casually interested in working with me to 
> find a way to improve the audio quality of our church service, and so 
> we'll be pursuing possible solutions, although perhaps not exactly the way 
> I had planned.
>
> In the meantime, I've been doing a bunch of background reading on 
> equipment (Barix, et al.) and techniques suggested here.  Again, to all 
> who responded:  Thank you!
>
> Bud Hippisley
>
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