on-air telephone calls

[alexk01]

Does anyone have an affordable sollution to take on-air telephone calls from listeners?

[arthurvasey]

If you have a mixer and a mobile phone with a hands-free kit, you could connect that up to the mixer and do it that way.

The drawbacks:

You would have to broadcast your mobile number on air;

You can only take one call at a time;

You can only use one channel on your mixer for calls and one for music;

You wil have to alternate between calls and music;

Call quality may not be very good (phone calls were never meant for broadcasting, anyway);

As you are using a mobile, you may have to place geographical restrictions on your call - some mobile companies charge you for RECEIVING calls from abroad - as I found out when I was in Gambia - I couldn't phone or text anybody on my Vodafone number and Africell billed me for calls and texts I was receiving - some mobile companies won't let you phone abroad, either.

[alexk01]

I just found out that I can use Skype for this. The only problem is I would like to be able to have mustiple callers on a single number. I would like to be able to put callers on hold... Any ideas?

[Nick@ss]

There is a kit to put on your phone and plug into your pc available from Tandys or Maplins.

have a google around you should find it easy ennough.

[alexk01]

Nick, you mean this?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=30350&C=Maplin&U=SearchTop&T=phone%20recording&doy=10m3

[alexk01]

Maplin BT Socket Recording Lead?

[Nick@ss]

Not quite, it was more of a thing that strapped to your phone.

That looks like it may do the trick though.

I would consult the technical team at the store.

[alexk01]

The problem with using something like this is:

The Broadcast Audio would contain broadcast-quality Host Audio mixed in with telephone-quality Host Audio. Therefore, the voice should be separated by a more sophisticated device.

[Phantom210]

If your phone has a headset socket, wouldn't it work to simply plug a cable into it, and then directly into the sound card?

[alexk01]

I am talking about something more like this: http://208.37.242.61/

Username can be anything, password is: comrex

Do you like the idea? The only problem is there is over $3,000 of hardware you have to buy to use this software. I am looking for a simple foftware with voice over IP like Skype... any ideas?

[alexk01]

I don't know why the link is not coming out. Go to google, search for Tomrex, once on their site, click on products, STAC, scroll half wat down, and click on CONNECT to a Working STAC.

This link is to an actual working STAC system at their facility in Massachusetts, USA. The demo works best via Internet Explorer 6 or higher or Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or higher. The username can be anything you like but the password is comrex (lowercase) They recommend running the demo in full-screen mode (F11 toggles full-screen mode on most browsers).

[fc*uk]

ummm Skype with a skype in number... or just force the people who want to call you to use skype so it is skype to skype, which is free all over the world.

[alexk01]

Yeah, Skypein would work, but there is no way to screen calls. Go to tomrex site and check out their online application for screening calls. (look at my previouse post) I wish skype would create something similar.
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[dirtysouthradio]

MAN IVE USED ABOUT EVERY PHONE THING FOR THE INTENER I COULD FIND SKYPE AIM PHONE AND THE ALL SUCK TILL NOW


IF U HAVE A RADIO STATIO AND WANNA TAKE PHONE CALLS GET A

MAGICJACK US A USB DEVICE THAT U CNA USE ON YOUR COMPUTER WITH A MIC AND HEAD PHONES OR U CAN USE IT WITH A REGULER PHONE ITS 45.00 FOR THE FIRST YEAR WITH THE DEVICE WITH 30 DAY TRIAL AND ITS 19.95 A YEAR EVERY YEAR FREE LONG DISTANCE AND 411 IN THE USA

[alexk01]

Hey, thanks DirtySouthRadio. I just ordered one. Gonna give it a try. But what do you use to get the caller on the air?

[arthurvasey]

That MagicJack thing is only available to Yanks or Canucks - what about us Brits?

[Afterdark_b]

Originally posted by arthurvasey
That MagicJack thing is only available to Yanks or Canucks - what about us Brits?



Just Take your Head phone jack from you Mobile Phone and plug it into your mixer line in job done it works for me :d

[dirtysouthradio]

Originally posted by alexk01
Hey, thanks DirtySouthRadio. I just ordered one. Gonna give it a try. But what do you use to get the caller on the air?


ONCE U GET THE MAGIC JACK PLUG IN TO YOUR USB IT WILL WALK U TREW THE STEPS AFTER U GOT YOUR NUMBER AND YOUR READY MAKE A CALL GO TO WHERE SAYS MENU GO TO VOLUME HEAD SET CONTROL CLICK THE BUTON THAT HEADSET/ OTHER THEN U ARE READ TO TAKE CALLS WHEN SOME ONE CALLS IN ALL U DO MUTE YOUR MUSIC AND TAKE THE CALL IF U GOT ANY PROBLUMS U CAN HIT ME ON MY AIM NAME


AIM NAME IS DIRTYSOUTHRADIO

[dirtysouthradio]

Originally posted by arthurvasey
That MagicJack thing is only available to Yanks or Canucks - what about us Brits?


U CAN USE IT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IF U WANT PEOPLE FROM THE USA TO CALL U ALL U GOT TO DO JUST PICK A USA NUMBER

[alexk01]

[i]U CAN USE IT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IF U WANT PEOPLE FROM THE USA TO CALL U ALL U GOT TO DO JUST PICK A USA NUMBER [/B]


Can people oversees call US as well?

[dirtysouthradio]

yeah but i think would be long distance mabey investing in a toll free number and forward that to the magic jack number thats what im going to do if u wanna here how the magic sound im going to be doing a interview in 30 MINS 1PM CHECK EM OUT