[cr-india] Community Radio Carves Out Space for Itself

2010-03-03 Thread Alokesh
Community Radio Carves Out Space for Itself By Malini Shankar BANGALORE, India, Mar 3, 2010 (IPS) - Community radio is moving from the margins to the mainstream in many countries in Asia, carving out spaces from where they respond to public needs ranging from disaster management to gender

[cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Kara Andrade
Is anyone out there doing community radio using cellphones. What are the different models being used? Thank you! Kara Andrade www.hablaguate.com On 3/2/10 11:56 PM, cr-india-requ...@sarai.net cr-india-requ...@sarai.net wrote: Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:09:55 -0700 (MST) From: George

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Hello, We have been able to get Bluetooth enabled cellphones working with Asterisk to make and receive phone calls, but the audio quality is not too good. A better option is to use GSM PCI cards or GSM gateways: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/GSM . We haven't tested any of these solutions

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Andrea Tazzari
Hi, The AurovilleRadio is testing since December 2009 broadcasting trough cellphones connect with GPRS connections. It's working fine but you need a cellphone supporting Flash technology and for time being are expensive. If you have a Flash enabled phone connected with Internet you can log

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Andrea Tazzari
Hi Gora, Thanks for your observation. I have circulate your message in our developer's team. Actually the sound quality it's more close to a AM broadcast than a FM this because we are streaming in mono and in very low bandwith (1Kbs/sec circa) in order to keep up the connection. With this speed