"LIVE" REMOTE BROADCASTS

[ASchuelke]

Greetins!I'd like to do live cut-ins from a Polkafest later this month. What's the best way for this one-man operation to go about this? I've thought of a couple things:a) Call in (requiring somebody to be in my house when I call) Plus, I don't have a phone line in my house, I use my cell.b) Record segments and drive back-and-forth to load them in (not live though... gas prices suck..hehe)c) >>your suggestion here<<Please help if you can.Thanks!Aaronwww.wrjqradio.com

 

[techie2]

Everything I can think of requires a land line phone and some automation gear.I do sports stuff for a thinly staffed LPFM, and our solution is the Circuitwerkes DR-10. It answers a phone line and will close relays in response to DTMF tones. We have DTMF codes mapped to pause and restart the automation and fire liners for games or remote drops.

 

[variac]

If there is Internet access you can use PCanywhere software to remotley control your studio PC, and simple point to point streaming, or shoutcast streaming. The trick is working around the delay of streaming, but you can see levels start and stop by being attached to the studio player PC.

 

[nealffischer]

If there is Internet access you can use PCanywhere software to remotley control your studio PC, and simple point to point streaming, or shoutcast streaming. The trick is working around the delay of streaming, but you can see levels start and stop by being attached to the studio player PC.

I have used the free/old version of realvnc to do the same thing.

Neal - used to have an internet station before the razzafrazzan rates went up.

 

[easyfm]

b) Record segments and drive back-and-forth to load them in

Kinda depends how far your studio is from the "remote" site. I do this all the time with an H4 recorder as it's a small town and I'm only five minutes from pretty well anywhere!

 

[jimmyfish]

I won a little AM station and we have a Marti remote unit. I was going to do this, but did not, as I just recorded the breaks and took them back to the station and put them in the automation. I was going to just pot up the very quiet remote signal on the board at the station and with the remote mic turned off on site untill I wanted to go on the air. the way I was going to do this without a board op at the station was to record a 60 second music bed with the volume dipped way down and just place this bed at the beginning of the breaks where I wanted the remote breaks to be and make sure I go exactly 60 seconds and then the bed fades and the next event trips. Hope that makes sense.

 

[gunterm]

With internet access you can do lots!

http://www.broadcast.co.uk/audio-link-p-93.html
Software STLs using mp3 encoders

My next project is using Barix boxes, an Instreamer and Exstreamer on each end, the proprietary BRTP protocol between the two boxes can fill in lost packets for you without it being noticeable on air. www.barix.com

My personal opinion is the Barix solution appears to be the best, since the internet is unreliable, I would prefer some built in error correction, which the Barix setup has, but the software mp3 ones do not.

 

[DarkStarPDX]

I thought this is what interns are for

 

[dave388]

I thought this is what interns are for

and the winner is YOU!!! lol

get some sucker to sit there to patch you on-air at your remote. mabe buy the poor gay/gal dinner when your finished