That's great! Remote via cell phone/iPhone.
Any music going to be piped through that?
JK. 😉
Hope its a big success!
RFB
It is 2:35 PM CDT and I am listening to The Friday Harbor Walkie Talkie Show with Ken Norris walking around talking to the public. He just gave a good I.D. for 1650 AM.
He's in the Farmer's Market at the Brick Works. There are a lot of people in the background having a great time.
The quality is clear and free of drop-outs.
Ken..... you are the recipient of the Low Power Hour Remote Part 15er of the week Award!
I hope your audio becomes downloadable so we can run some of it on the next LPH.
By the way, I am running your feed and listening on 101.9 FM, my Editing Channel, with new call letters KEGO "Ego - the Station Where We Listen To Ourselves"
Oh look, a neat Low Power Hour Link on the Friday Harbor site! Thanks!
Ken Norris:
Within 24-hours of hearing your live broadcast on Friday Harbor Radio it has become the strongest late childhood memory I have of experience in part 15 during those years. These years.
I went back to your website and checked all the drawers and cabinets looking for a recording of the event, but it's not there (yet).
Please please please upload it to your "Sound Files" page. It was great.
Perhaps it is being overlooked because it happened at the same time as The Olympics and the first meeting of the North American Low Power Broadcasters.
Right now I am testing the stream coming from Friday Harbor Tiny Radio, the Ken Norris part 15 station on a boat, getting ready for the weekly Walkie Talkie Show which starts in an hour.
Right now he is sending nature sounds that are very pleasant, inclusing rain falling in a forest, pastoral bird songs and peaceful crickets.
The Walkie Talkie Show is possibly the most interesting part 15 radio program being done live in America, as Ken visits with people at the Farmer's Market there on the island.
The Friday Harbor Walkie Talkie Show starts at 12 Noon Pacific Time, so because I'm in the Central Time Zone I started recording at 10 AM.
Why didn't that work out?
Apparently you subtracted instead of adding..
or visa-verse..
Anyway, start recording at 2:00
It's amazing how soon this thread drifted all the way to Page 4, because the "WALKIE TALKIE SHOW" is easily the most important innovation in part 15 programming since low power was first invented.
For two weeks I remembered to listen to "WALKIE TALKIE SHOW", but last week I missed it, so I want to tail-gate Ken Norris's cab and honk a few times to get him to post his programs for later hearing.
Probably the 2nd most important recent breakthrough in part 15 invention is the output of RFB's Sony Stereo AM Radio being streamed so we can listen to his radio.
For 3rd and 4th place I will bet there are things being done we haven't yet heard about, part 15 radio is only starting a growth cycle, sort of like the new hurricane Leslie getting churned up in the Atlantic.
The end goal? Someday every person living in the world will have their own personal radio station and the corporate stations will have no further purpose and can go on vacation.
This week I'm ready and waiting for the WALKIE TALKIE SHOW from Friday Harbor Tiny Radio, AM 1650
The website is a vacation from your chair.
AM 1650 has a neat store front!
Get on the Ferry Vessel Watch and follow the busy ferry boats traversing between islands. I zoomed in and watched the Tiny Harbor 7:35 AM ferry arrive a minute early!
As good as an iPhone 4S is, it seems unable to handle the live broadcast while simultaneously displaying the sites where I get info (ferries, weather, etc.) with LogMeIn also open. Running the recorder as well seems to be a bit too much for it.
IMO Apple needs to address this iOS issue ASAP. Maybe temporarily disconnecting LogMeIn will help. I'll have to open it again to switch back to the studio computer, which is a bit awkward ... experienced when I let it lie dormant too long during a remote broadcast, i.e., it disconnects, even tho' the software in the host is set to remain connected for 3 hours.
Anyway, the only other thing I could do is to start recording remotely in the STL computer, which is an older eMac set up strictly for getting audio from the internet to the Part 15 TX. I can open Safari on it without interrupting the signal, but I haven't tried to record while its doing its link thing. If it's solid enough, remembering how much Internet speeds can vary, maybe that could work.
I have to digitize and edit from a tape before 6:30pm today ... gotta go.
"As good as an iPhone 4S is, it seems unable to handle the live broadcast while simultaneously displaying the sites where I get info (ferries, weather, etc.) with LogMeIn also open. Running the recorder as well seems to be a bit too much for it. IMO Apple needs to address this iOS issue ASAP."
Only so much even those can handle. It's a matter of processing and memory power in the device as is bandwidth and load it relies on.
Heavy loading of the i4G network elsewhere besides in your immediate area can bog it up.
Sort of reminds me of the great ol days of using the ch 14 walkie talkies seeing how far they would go after (COUGHtweakingAHEM) em. Even using them for remote broadcasts from friend's houses down the block etc.
Well the walkie talkie show might have stumbled a little but I bet it was a great show anyway. 🙂
RFB