Firstly, many thanks to all the kind people who responded - I now have
enough ammunition
to confront the club with some suggestions and take it forward from
there.
I still reserve the right to come back with more questions (please).

Mungo

Owain wrote:


I've already plumbed my old laptop in to the Public Address system
so we can play appropriate music at the game stoppages.

For which you or the venue will require appropriate licences for
performing rights and mechanical copyright.


With respect to Owain for his kind help, and risking invocation of his
wrath,
I didn't raise the issue of "appropriate licences" and I take some
umbrage
at the insinuation that we are doing anything illegal.
I'm sure Owain meant well, but you know which road is paved with good
intentions! :-)

For anyone that wants to share in the program (its a Java program, no
music
supplied) then please wander over to
http://www.mungoh.f2s.com/HockeyMusic/index.htm
and fight Java to get the damn thing working!

Regards

Mungo

On Wed, 03 May 2006 23:57:43 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

No - fx mics will usually be cabled. Remember many if not most football
grounds in the UK have at least some broadcasting cabling installed
permanently.

Premiership grounds but not many others do. At the smaller grounds even
BT has to put in some Dropwire No.10 for the DELs...

I don't count COOBE/ISDN for local radio coverage a "broadcast cabling",
I'm thing of multies, triax, BT fibre etc.

As do racecourses.

Yes, mostly part of Racetech. Drive up, drag a loom out plug it in, power
up and there you have the standard facilties for the betting coverage and
"officals" (Can't remember what you call 'em at racecourses, not umpires,
judges...). Haven't done the GeeGees for ages since the BBC lost most of
the meetings to channel 4.

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On Wed, 3 May 2006 19:40:00 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

Alternatively, use Bluetooth, get 100m range, and you don't have to
worry.

I'm not aware of any Bluetooth devices that offer a full bandwidth audio
link. Any delays due to digital processing might be a issue as well,
partly for the commentator/presentor trying to talk against himself
coming out of the PA delayed but also "interesting" feedback effects. Ice
Hockey is NOISEY the PA will be cranked up...

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On Sat, 06 May 2006 23:03:46 +0100 (BST), Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Wed, 3 May 2006 19:40:00 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

Alternatively, use Bluetooth, get 100m range, and you don't have to
worry.

I'm not aware of any Bluetooth devices that offer a full bandwidth audio
link.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your ignorance.

Any delays due to digital processing might be a issue as well,
partly for the commentator/presentor trying to talk against himself
coming out of the PA delayed but also "interesting" feedback effects. Ice
Hockey is NOISEY the PA will be cranked up...

And Bluetooth sets are available with noise cancelling microphones, and if
they are time-shifted feedback is hardly likely to be a problem. But I
suspect you exaggerate for comic effect.

On Sun, 21 May 2006 23:01:29 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

Alternatively, use Bluetooth, get 100m range, and you don't have to
worry.

I'm not aware of any Bluetooth devices that offer a full bandwidth
audio link.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your ignorance.

Always willing to learn, care to enlighten me?

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In article om,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
I'm not aware of any Bluetooth devices that offer a full bandwidth
audio link.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your ignorance.

Always willing to learn, care to enlighten me?

Yes. I've not seen a sudden proliferation of Bluetooth radio mics...

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On Mon, 22 May 2006 08:23:24 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article om,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
I'm not aware of any Bluetooth devices that offer a full bandwidth
audio link.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your ignorance.

Always willing to learn, care to enlighten me?

http://www.bluetooth.com/NR/rdonlyre...2DPspecv10.pdf

Yes. I've not seen a sudden proliferation of Bluetooth radio mics...

Why should you need a Bluetooth radio microphone? It's simple to connect
any microphone through one of these devices.

http://www.iocombo.com/product/showp...productid=0EHK
http://www.xterasys.com/bsm202.htm
http://www.frontierpc.com/ProductDet...ctID=950018722
http://www.gogocity.com/product_deta...f_id=CO94XB202

And you may recall that since the initial question was about microphone and
headset that I suggested using a Bluetooth headset with a built in
microphone.

http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a...reviews&id=756
http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=product&Item=GBMH201

I would suspect that this device is more up your particular street and TBH
I'm bloody surprised you never heard about it (or similar).

http://www.youcom.nl/products/report...les/parrot.pdf

You owe me £500+VAT BTW for professional consultancy.

In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
I would suspect that this device is more up your particular street and
TBH I'm bloody surprised you never heard about it (or similar).

http://www.youcom.nl/products/report...les/parrot.pdf

You owe me £500+VAT BTW for professional consultancy.

The world is full of such things - but I don't use them. ;-)

BTW there's a world of difference between domestic and pro solutions. Most
Bluetooth gear and headsets etc would be but a pile of broken plastic
after the first use...

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Mon, 22 May 2006 18:25:15 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
I would suspect that this device is more up your particular street and
TBH I'm bloody surprised you never heard about it (or similar).

http://www.youcom.nl/products/report...les/parrot.pdf

You owe me £500+VAT BTW for professional consultancy.

The world is full of such things - but I don't use them. ;-)

BTW there's a world of difference between domestic and pro solutions. Most
Bluetooth gear and headsets etc would be but a pile of broken plastic
after the first use...

Yes of course after all a pair of Motorola HT820s have such an inferior
build quality compared to DT100s oh hang on no they don't, and there's no
cord to snag and chafe either.