[lac-streams] streamteam report day one

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:11:15AM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Thank you to the organziers for all your hard work.
> > And thank you to the volunteers who have helped with the streams. :)
> > It's really great to have a larger team this year.
> > Streaming went fairly well today. I'm not sure exactly how many
> > listeners we had as we are relaying locally on the server in order to
> > provide audio only streams. But, I think we had at least 120 viewers at
> > the peak. Ryan is working out from the logs how many unique IPs
> > connected.
> 
> excellent. good to hear all went ok. bummer the uhf headset turned out
> to be bad - it was the single most expensive piece of equipment i had
> martin rent for us :(
> did you have dropouts, or noise? - as i said to edrz during soundcheck,
> the headset has to be attached very carefully so that it doesn't
> interact with most speaker's facial hair... (likely to get worse every day.)

Yes. John ffitch just wasn't going to work with that in any way.

> i'd just like to hear why you ditched it - if it was dropouts, i'm going
> to complain to ali, because the antennas are a joke.

The sound quality was just generally poor. The stream listeners were
very glad we got rid of it. Daven also hated its sound. No complaints at
all today with the akg.

-Eric

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