Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:36:44 -0400
Reply-To: Greg Potts <Greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From: Greg Potts <Greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject: Re: [T2] Short range FM transmitters (& movies for the kids)
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Hi Mike,
Our campsite is located about a half-mile from the nearest home, so I
don't have much worry about interfering with anyone's home radio
reception. The campground area we have available is actually pretty
big... Pretty close to the size of the area where EveryBus is held,
maybe bigger. If we put a had a couple of large radios tuned to the
same station we could create our own wireless PA system, that might
be used with a laptop-based playlist at other times.
Of course, it's impossible to provide one music channel to make
everyone happy. And I'd rather not have everyone unhappy about the
music except the one person running it. But with such a big area to
work with a PA system would come in handy; esp. for the driving
challenge event.
I am looking into creating a BOTC Drive-in, but haven't yet been able
to nail down a projector. If someone has one and is planning on
coming up to BOTC I will gladly refund their camping fees if they
will commit to bringing it along. We will use my 10'x15'-sided white-
sky shelter as the projector screen. Screening a movie like
"Festival Express" for the adults would be pretty cool and it would
have the required Canadian Content as well.
....Now I gotta get back to the driveway to wrestle with an Auto
tranny swap on my wife's bus.
Happy trails,
Greg Potts
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1973/74/79 Westfakia Conversion **Bob the Tomato** LY3H
1977 Sunroof Automatic L63H/L90D
http://www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia
http://www.busesofthecorn.com
On 4-Jun-05, at 12:29 PM, Mike Benthin wrote:
> The FM transmitters have a poor range; I returned one, as it worked
> only a few feet from the radio. Better to use a radio with an AUX
> input and use an adaptor to feed the LINE out from a DVD or CD
> player to the phono plug inputs. For a PA, consider a PC mic, and
> feeding the headphone output to the same radio AUX inputs.
> At Westies in the Woods they had a digital projector on an 8
> ft sheet feeding from a 12v inverter playing the Futurama episode
> with the VW bus and a movie-(Herbie?) - the kids watched even when
> it rained (projector was in the tent)!
>
> G.
> . .Mike Benthin in NJ __ |
> 244K mi on original engine! ______/__\| 63 panel camper for sale
> . . . /=__==__===_=\ 75 bus
> . . . . 78 VW Camper -T-|E[__][__]|[_]\\ (77 Westy-sold)
> . . . all over USA 0 | _ | `|__ |} (77 Westy-parted)
> . . =-(_)-----(_)`--= (71 Westy rusto in
> woods)
> (74 Westy-parting)
>
