[Sudo-radio] SRIG meeting 3/19/2013

Marina Kukso marina.kukso at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 14:46:19 PDT 2013


shani had a fantastic idea to hold a radio launch party and make it a
fundraiser. what do you guys think?

- marina


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:43 PM, mark burdett <mark at 510pen.org> wrote:

> Let's be on the lookout for decent-quality speakers on craigslist, flea
> markets etc.
>
> should we have some kindof fundraiser? we could sell t-shirts or something.
>
> I found some nice yamaha speakers on the street a while back but I'm
> currently using them in my living room.. :)
>
> --mark
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No worries, I was quite happy to do it.  I'm just kinda anxious to
>> make tangible progress, and I realized there was a psychic block in
>> play with respect to the tangled-up-ness of the radio room.
>>
>> Cabling and speakers would be much appreciated.  We do have some
>> cables lying around, but since we're talking about "infrastructure"
>> here, what we put in place really ought to be higher-quality than just
>> your regular Radio Shack stuff.
>>
>> I'm not certain of all of the parts needed because I didn't play
>> around as much as I wanted with the Behemoth Mixer, and I am not sure
>> of all of the typical Use Cases for the radio room.  (e.g. how likely
>> is it that we have turntablist DJs?  talk shows with more than 2-3
>> people?  etc)
>>
>>
>> However, I know one huge Nice To Have would be a headphone splitter like
>> this:
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Pyle-Pro-PHA40-4-Channel-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B003M8NVFS/nthmost-20
>>
>> ...because we can use it to split off the output from the mixer,
>> sending it to the monitor, the R Pi, and the radio transmitter.
>> (That's one potential configuration anyway.)
>>
>> And if we had a second one, we could use it as a headphone splitter.  :D
>>
>> --Naomi
>>
>> ps. My Mail.app just did some weird crap when I lobotomized it to keep
>> my Gmail stuff out of there.  If anybody just got some fractionated
>> emails from me just now, that's why.  I can see them in my "Sent Mail"
>> folder in Gmail but some of them are marked "Deleted".  Huh??
>> Whatever.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:37 PM, rusty lindgren <rustylindgren at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey good job on that, btw.  Sorry, I didn't have more than about 5-10
>> > minutes last night to myself(or all week).
>> >
>> > I can help get some monitor speakers in there.  I might have the
>> cabling you
>> > need for that set-up.  Let me know exactly what cables you want, and
>> I'll
>> > score some small powered speakers.
>> >
>> > -Rusty
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> SRIG (sudo radio interest group) meeting: Infrastructure Buildout
>> >>
>> >> attendees: nthmost.
>> >>
>> >> This is a set of 10 pics describing what happened in the 2 hours from
>> >> 8pm to 10pm in which we (meaning I) rearranged almost everything in
>> >> the sudo radio room, "installed" power strips, created incredible (to
>> >> me) amounts of open space, wrapped and sorted cables, and sang along
>> >> loudly to mid-90s punk rock.
>> >>
>> >> http://nthmost.net/albums/SRIG-2013-03-19/
>> >>
>> >> Check out the album at the above link and read the captions to learn
>> >> specifics and to see where some more attention is needed.  Mostly what
>> >> we need is:
>> >>
>> >> * Decent radio "monitor" speakers (to hear what the listeners are
>> hearing)
>> >> * Cabling to whatever mixer we decide to use (that behemoth seems to
>> >> work!)
>> >> * Cabling from computer to RPi
>> >>
>> >> This makes me feel good.  It's a much firmer foundation upon which to
>> >> build a "station".
>> >>
>> >> Next step:  Actually Install The Damn RPi.
>> >>
>> >> Next meeting date: Tuesday, 3/26/2013 - 8pm
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Naomi Theora Most
>> >> naomi at nthmost.com
>> >> +1-415-728-7490
>> >>
>> >> skype: nthmost
>> >>
>> >> http://twitter.com/nthmost
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Rusty Lindgren
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Naomi Theora Most
>> naomi at nthmost.com
>> +1-415-728-7490
>>
>> skype: nthmost
>>
>> http://twitter.com/nthmost
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