Sounds good Nick. Some thing like that would be worth doing in my opinion.
Lance
Nick Rout wrote:
I have a friend who runs a private amateur TV station called ATV
(A=Amateur). He is an electronics wiz who lives up in Cashmere. It
broadcasts somewhere on the UHF or VHF range AFAIK. The stuff is mainly
community contributed. Some of it is delightfully low tech - if you want
to advertise a party or gig you email him a poster, he prints it out and
sticks it on the ranchslider. Then he points the camera at it, so you
get the poster plus whatever you can see round the edges - ie out the
ranchslider LOL.
He has like an array of VHS and dvd machines plugged in, although of
course only one device can be transmitted at once. There is some
mechanism for those in the know to be able to dial in and select the
program via touchtones. At present resource contention is handled by
politeness - if something is showing, you don't interrupt.
I saw him recently and we were discussing TV, media, etc. I told him
about my forthcoming mythtv talk, and he suggested he could broadcast
LUG stuff, either live or from digital videotape. I declined on that
occasion, both out of shyness and the lack of time before the meeting.
We've had people not being able to make it because of other commitments,
and the concept of streaming the meeting digitally seems to have a major
bandwidth issue. However a subsequent ability to broadcast over the
airwaves might be just the ticket, especially if the video was edited
nicely.
