Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-17 Thread Jim Brown
] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 9:19 AM   No, John, I was never been a CE, but a PD several times.   This same guy was the first to have on his door a sign I've since seen

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-17 Thread STeve Andre'
[snip] - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression At 8/14/2009 17:54, you wrote: Sounds like, in essence, it was a closed repeater. Only those meeting some tough standards were allowed. Oh, it was very open

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-17 Thread George Henry
] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression Our engineering prototype parts guy had a sign behind his desk that said: Failure to plan ahead on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part 73 - Jim W5ZIT

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-16 Thread JOHN MACKEY
Apparently you are one of the former Chief Engineers at the station I am currently the engineer of! -- Original Message -- Received: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:36:11 AM PDT From: Paul Plack pl...@xmission.com In my years in broadcast radio, I often saw program directors and general managers who

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Plack
MACKEY To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:00 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression Apparently you are one of the former Chief Engineers at the station I am currently the engineer of! -- Original Message

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 10, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Laryn Lohman wrote: Nate, your comments about compression and bad-sounding audio coming in from IRLP just goes to show, at least in part, that improperly set-up compression/AGC sounds bad. Totally agreed. I have been fighting improperly built/designed AGC's

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:30 AM, skipp025 wrote: Hi Nate, re: An advocate for a little audio compression. Nate Duehr n...@... wrote: You're a brave man to say it, Skipp. Here's my problem with it. Let's just say there's a very large linked repeater system that decided MANY years ago

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-15 Thread Paul Holm
. Very agrevating, especially when he runs a net. I ask him to repeat every other thing he says, even if I heard him the first time. Maybe the light bulb will come on for him. 73 Paul - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-15 Thread Paul Plack
just picky. 73, Paul, AE4KR - Original Message - From: ae6zm To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 6:54 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression Sounds like, in essence, it was a closed repeater. Only

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-14 Thread no6b
At 8/14/2009 08:54, you wrote: Let me get this straight... someone installed a circuit that would cut off the transmission if the user didn't talk with a loud enough voice into the mic? Actually, I think it looked for sufficient modulation to activate the repeater. Once it was up, it would

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-14 Thread no6b
At 8/14/2009 17:54, you wrote: Sounds like, in essence, it was a closed repeater. Only those meeting some tough standards were allowed. Oh, it was very open. How tough can it be to simply speak up? Bob NO6B

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-13 Thread no6b
At 8/13/2009 08:11, you wrote: Any ol' audio detector/filter/comparitor would do. Nothing fancy like the SmartVox we use for Shuttle audio (which doesn't work on amplitude, but rather changes in audio frequency), just something that says I saw peaks over 4 kHz or average deviation over

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Brown
pumping up and down. 73 - Jim  W5ZIT --- On Wed, 8/12/09, skipp025 skipp...@yahoo.com wrote: From: skipp025 skipp...@yahoo.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 10:54 AM

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-12 Thread no6b
At 8/12/2009 08:54, you wrote: n...@... wrote: Yes, but increasing the user's deviation to the proper level would help a lot more. A lot of people have voices, which are not considered Radio or Broadcast Quality in both pitch and volume. Add a little mic shyness and you're often stuck with

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-11 Thread no6b
At 8/11/2009 08:28, you wrote: Hi Paul, One has to deal with reality... while you might consider a soft talking person not properly trained, more than a fair number of users don't have a booming voice. In a larger number of cases a little bit of added audio compression/limiting helps resolve the

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression

2009-08-10 Thread Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis
is a desktrac repeater capable of audio compression? - Original Message - From: Laryn Lohman lar...@hotmail.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:41 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: An advocate for a little audio compression Nate, your comments