Last week Martin set up a link for a trans-atlantic Skype call for Lincoln Short Wave Club. Bob Heil founder of Heil Sound (who has worked with such bands as The Who, Grateful Dead and Peter Frampton to produce their sound) gave a presentation to the club about sound and amateur radio.
Bob gives many of these presentations to radio clubs (he is a radio amateur K9EID), but this was the first one to a club in the UK. Towards the end of the presentation he commented on the success of the technical set up for the Skype call – Martin was very pleased with the positive comments about this successful job.
The job consisted of repairing a broken ADSL connection, extending the current secured wifi network into the village hall and then setting up the laptop including adding a speaker system suitable for the large hall, a remote webcam to supplement the one built into the laptop and setting up a set of Heil Sound headphones with a boom mic for the operator to use.
