Gee, I'm very pleased. After working with the idea for a couple of years, and with Max Hettiger's help we got it up and running - sorta. In '13 SCTA did their own and we had some at other events, but still had a few glitches, and then last year it was pretty good for WoS and the Shootout and of course the Wilmington events and now Wilmington and Loring and it's working -- great!!! Thanks go mostly to Gregg. He's doing the real leg work, and also -- thanks to Chris Midget for doing lots of background work with the audio system itself. Me -- well, I'm the one that buys the few bits of hardware that we need and sets up the cellphone account that we use and mostly I'm the one that begs the $$ to keep everything up and going. And most of all -- for sure -- are you folks that send along a bit of $$ now and then to pay for the bills we rack up doing the audio.
And so I'll now broach the idea that Ed Shadle and I have bounced around: If we can make it work -- I might go out to the Alvord Desert this September/October to deliveer audio from his efforts. His IT guys say that cellphone service out there is either crappy or sh*tty depending on the time of day or the color of the user's eyes or something, so it might not work at all. And while I haven't dug into it - I suppose a satellite phone would work - but would cost a frickin' ton. The audio from Ed's adventure out there would be cooler than hell to provide and hear -- but just like the Shootout -- there'll be lots of times without anything. And I know, for sure, that you don't want to hear me extolling the qualities of Nancy's adventures. Well, on second thought, you probably would like to hear them. Hey -- I KNOW that you'd be interested - - but I'm not going to tell her stories. That's up to her. Anyway - there'd be lots of dead air and that makes the cost of satellite up and down kinda difficult to justify. Whaddaya tink of the idea?
Thanks again go to Gregg, whose real name is Geriatric, I think.