[NJARC] Live streaming video of the meeting

[Jerry Dowgin]

Dave

Great job!!!  I miss 2 or 3 meetings a year because I am out of state and 
this option would be much appreciated by me.  I also think it would serve to 
increase membership by giving prospective members an opportunity to see our 
meetings.

Jerry Dowgin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sica" <davesica at juno.com>
To: <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:53 PM
Subject: [NJARC] Live streaming video of the meeting


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> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:04:14 -0500 (CDT) <jonsradioglo at verizon.net>
> writes:
>>  I watched the auction from texas thanks to Dave,and only wish
>>  I could have bid on some items.The experiment went well.I just
>>  hope costs and other problems could be worked out in the future
>>  to broadcast future meetings for those of us who live in foreign
>>  lands.
>     Jon B.F.
>
>
>
> For those of you who weren't there, or for those of you who were and may
> have been wondering about that odd concoction of video and computer
> equipment in the front row at our last meeting, we were (more or less)
> successful in presenting our first meeting streamed out live on the web.
> Video and audio was available on the Internet and we had two members who
> "virtually" attended the meeting. We received "QSL" reports from
> President Phil Vourtsis tuning in from North Carolina and New Jersey
> expatriate Jon Butz Fiscina who was watching the proceedings in Texas.
>
> The picture was small and grainy (no HDTV here yet!) Now I know a little
> how John Logie Baird must have felt with his tiny first-generation
> television images. It was great to find out that it worked. There were
> some special challenges in sending a signal out from the Sarnoff
> auditorium, but in the end it worked. The stream proved to be a bit
> intermittent: it quit unexpectedly a few times during the evening and had
> to be restarted, resulting in not even so much as a "please stand by" for
> our viewers, just a blank screen for several minutes each time. Hopefully
> we'll get the bugs worked out and be able to offer a higher quality
> viewing experience.
>
> If we are, the $64,000 question is: is this something that people would
> even be interested in?
>
> - How many members might be interested in tuning in once in a while via
> their broadband Internet connections to watch the meeting?
>
> - How many people who are regularly unable to make the trip to Princeton
> or
> Wall Township because of distance, physical impairment or maybe just lack
> of time might find it convenient to occasionally participate in the
> meetings in this "virtual" way?
>
> - How many people who are not members of the club because they're not in
> this geographic area might want to join if they could participate in this
> way?
>
> If there's enough interest, I'll put together a little presentation on
> the subject for a future meeting.
>
> Costs have been coming down dramatically. While cost will likely always
> be a consideration, I estimate that each viewer might cost only about a
> dollar or two in bandwidth at today's rates. Figuring that I probably
> burn almost $20 worth of gas on a round trip to Princeton, the bandwidth
> costs start to sound like quite a bargain!
>
> What do YOU think?
>
> Thanks,
> --Dave Sica
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